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Democrat dialectic By Charles A. Morse Does anyone doubt that if the shoe were on the other foot, if Al Gore was the certified winner in Florida, and it was George W. Bush challenging the outcome by supporting dozens of lawsuits, there would be cries of thief and "fascist" from the Democrats and their various and sundry lackeys? Could you imagine the shrieking and caterwauling from the left if it was George W. Bush who was calling for the "interpretive" counting of spoiled ballots in Republican controlled counties as a means of over turning the election? Imagine, if you will, a Republican controlled Florida Supreme Court changing the law and ruling that a certification for Al Gore would have to be delayed. Would this not be met with mobs of people in bandanas and tie-dye T-shirts storming the Supreme Court, camping out, and causing a riot? We've witnessed the astonishing and absurd spectacle of Democrat activists, including two self described left-wing Congressmen, Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Alcee Hastings (D-Fl.), yelling about the protests of Republicans in Dade County. Nadler bufoonishly smells "a whiff of fascism" in civil disobedience carried out, by Republicans, in the best traditions of Henry David Thoreau. Is he implying that any protest rally or public assemblage is fascist or is this term applied only if Republicans are involved? Certainly Nadler isn't coming out against protest. Remember Chicago,1968? Fascist is a term applied, typically, to any person or group that protests a left-wing agenda whatever it may be. These hyperbolic charges are classic left-wing agitprop, a turning of the tables on their opposition when it is they who represent the authoritarian view. Congressmen Hastings, at this same yell-fest staged in Dade County, made dark and sinister references to the Dade County Board of Canvassers as partaking in some sort of a conspiracy to stop the count of spoiled ballots. Perish the thought of a Republican referring to a secret conspiracy. They would be instantly relegated to the extremist fringe. Hastings informs us, with an air of absolute certainty, that we will never know the truth about a secret deal struck between Dade County and a Florida Republican cabal to stop the count. Jesse Jackson and the NAACP stridently raise the issue of African-Americans being turned away at polling places because of race. Demographic statistics suggest that most of Florida's African-Americans reside in the Democrat controlled counties which should pull the rug out from under the ugly smear that somehow Republicans would have something to do with this even if it were true. The only concrete charges of Blacks being harassed at the polls were reported by Haitians who noted that Democrat operatives were harassing them into voting for Gore. This proved particularly odious to Haitians who are accustomed to such harassment in their native Haiti by the forces of Papa Doc Duvalier. Imagine the hue and cry if Bush operatives had harassed Haitians. Gore lied to the American people when he said, during a press conference carried by all the major networks, that he would abide by the Florida Supreme Court decision concerning certification of the election and all lawsuits would be dropped. He also lied when he said there would be no lobbying of electors on his behalf and that he would not accept the vote of an elector pledged to Gov. Bush. He most absurdly lied when he stated that his actions weren't about him, but were to determine the will of the people. Imagine a Republican, any Republican, engaging in these same type of blatant, shameless, bold-faced lies. The dialectic mindset considers any and all actions permissible if carried out in the interest of winning. Victory is everything and the means justify the ends. Virtue exists, to the dialectician, in victory. Moral principals, intrinsically understood by most of us, are only to be applied when the opposition falls short. The dialectician himself is not constrained by such quaint prejudices as morality. The only moral good, to the dialectician, is success. Former Democrat pollster Pat Cadell described the situation quite succinctly on Hardball with Chris Matthews(11/27) when he stated: "I'm a liberal Democrat. I started in Florida politics. I worked
for George McGovern. I worked for Jimmy Carter. I've worked for Ted Kennedy,
Mario Cuomo. Nobody can question, I think, my credentials and my convictions.
But I have to tell you, at this point it's hard to believe that my party,
the party that I've belonged to since my great, great grandfather of my
family, has become no longer a party of principles, but has been hijacked
by a confederacy of gangsters who need to take power by whatever means
and whatever canards they can say." Chuck Morse is the author of the new book Thunder out of Boston. Other articles by this author: (open in a new window)
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