Idea

A Way For Conservative Politicians to Influence the Culture Wars
By Daniel G. Jennings
As Paul Weyrich and other observes have pointed out the challenge facing conservatives is primarily cultural: that is to influence the culture in such a way as to promote and restore traditional values. Conservative politicians who have won the political wars don’t like to face this hard truth because it makes their victories in the political battles largely hollow ones.
Thankfully in a free society such as ours there is little politicians can do to change the culture. Still there maybe a way in which conservative politicians can influence the culture wars or at least help their side in it.
Conservative politicians can expose the stupidity and chicanery of the New Left and Neo Marxism by calling prominent leftist thinkers to Washington to testify about these things before Congress. I’m not talking about an inquisition or McCarthyism here, I’m simply suggesting that we give leftist thinkers an opportunity to use Congress as a forum to explain their views and promote their ideas. We should make it clear that nobody will go to jail or loose their job if they don’t show up we just want to hear what they think. Nobody will call them Communists and there will be no possibility of a blacklist.
Surely such pompous windbags as Cornel West, Ward Churchill, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer and company won’t want to miss a chance to rant and rave before a national audience. Once on camera these fools can expose themselves and the stupidity and venality of their thinking to the American public.
Imagine all the fodder the late night TV comics, The Simpsons, South Park and Saturday Night Live will get out of the foolish performance of these intellectuals. They’ll be too irresistible a target to pass up and much of their influence will disappear when they become laughingstocks.
If these idiots don’t show up to defend themselves, Congress can ask what do these fools have to hide? Why are they afraid of the spotlight and the free exchange of ideas they claim to believe in. They want a national debate let’s give them one and see who wins.
Such fools have been able to get away with their extremist dogma and Anti American bigotry because they’ve had no real publicity. Average people don’t realize what’s being taught in the big universities and increasingly pushed through the media. The media has deliberately ignored them and covered up for them time and time again. It’s time we exposed such thinking and called for a national debate upon it. If the leftists really believe in their ideas they should welcome such a chance.
Average Americans deserve to know what the self proclaimed intellectuals are saying about them, their country and the things they believe in. They also deserve to know about the bigotry that is increasingly being passed off as higher learning in many of our great universities.
Such hearings would also put Democrats in the hot seat, imagine how Average Americans would react if someone like John Kerry or Nancy Pelosi came out and defended such a loathsome individual as Noam Chomsky. The damage to Democrats could be immense they would have to choose between the support of the far left or the American People. I imagine some prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Senator Byrd of West Virginia would end up being harder on the Far Leftists than many Republicans.
Now obviously such hearings wouldn’t be an easy undertaking the Republicans would face vast amounts of criticism from the media. Not to mention lots of TV stories featuring newsreel footage of Joe McCarthy. Still, exposing the hypocrisy and stupidity of the Far Left would be a good starting point in a counteroffensive to win the Culture Wars.