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You really have to feel sorry for our liberal friends. With each
passing day, they are coming to resemble the old WASP elite they
sneered at for a century. Good liberal journalists should visit only
those inscribed in the Liberal Social Register. And the Netroots seem
more and more like southern rednecks, the folks who howled their
approval when George Wallace vowed, "Segregation now, segregation
tomorrow, segregation forever" in 1963 in the last moments before the
Civil Rights Acts and the end of Jim Crow.

In the Juan Williams affair, they are telling us that liberal
journalists have to take a vow, as members of the exclusive NPR Vegan
Club, never to be caught grabbing a salty snack at the Fox News Drive-
In window. Is that what liberalism is reduced to?

This is classic late-dynasty behavior. The founder of a political
dynasty, whether a Napoleon or a Mao, understands the nature and use
of political power down to his fingertips. He uses power to win his
objective, never merely in the service of social snobbery. He decks
his opponent with a knockout punch: no face-slapping for him. But the
heirs do not get it. They have never had to fight for power; they have
merely stepped into positions of power carved out by others.

The women at NPR who bungled the firing of Juan Williams last week
advertised their weakness in all directions. They told the Angry Left
that they could be rolled. They told the Republicans in Congress that
they were not up to the job of defending their institution.

In addition, they are demonstrating to anyone who cares the strategic
folly of Affirmative Action. Why on earth would liberals want to staff
their nomenklatura with a bunch of second-raters chosen on the grounds
of race and gender instead of making young liberals fight each other
to the death for the right to run their headline institutions?

The answer is that it is ever thus. It applies even to Rupert Murdoch,
the street brawler who built his media empire with his bare hands. He
appears to be preparing to hand over his media empire to his less-than-
impressive sons. Eventually News Corporation will be inherited by the
Murdoch equivalent of Pinch Sulzberger.

The Chinese have an elegant way of describing the late dynasty
situation. In a great empire after years of strength and tranquility,
things start to go wrong. Harvests fail; provincial governors become
insubordinate and hold back their taxes. The army can't keep the
barbarians north of the Great Wall. That's when the Chinese talk of
the emperor losing the Mandate of Heaven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM

Dynastic heirs lack the skills and the intensity to keep the dynasty
going. As the British say, they start to lose the plot. The ladies at
NPR demonstrate this. Don't they understand that the charge of bigotry
(or racism or sexism) is supposed to be used against the enemies of
the regime, the racists and the bitter clingers, and not against a
loyal if slightly off-message Juan Williams? Apparently they think it
more important to truckle to their contributors and remain ritually
clean of Foxite contamination.

Government is force. Politics is power. But the wise ruler keeps the
mailed fist in reserve. Instead, he uses the methods of social control
to enforce his will. He knows that humans are social animals; they
hate to be branded as bad people. So he sends out his operatives to
brand his opponents as bigots and racists (or traitors and heretics,
according to taste). Liberals have successfully cowed the nation for
decades with their racist-sexist-bigot-homophobe charges. Last week
was a hint that the liberal idol has feet of clay.

This election is marked by the enthusiasm of the Tea Party and
Republican voters. But the sign that something is really afoot is the
stumbling of the once-proud elite, call it what you will: New Elite,
Ruling Class, Educated Youth, Progressive Elite, Cognitive Elite,
Creative Class. They complained of President Bush's strategic
overreach in Iraq, but now they must confront their own overreach in
Keynesian stimulus and ObamaCare and their oblivious disregard of the
gathering storm.

History is the lie agreed upon. For fifty years liberals kept enough
of us persuaded that their disastrous New Deal policies in the 1930s
were a stunning success. Then they forced most of us to believe that
their racial quotas and soul-destroying welfare programs were the
essence of justice and compassion. Now they want us to believe that
ObamaCare will reduce health care costs.

It all adds up to a bridge too far, and people have stopped believing
in the liberal lies. Worse than that, people are starting to laugh at
liberals rather than fear them.

That is always the danger signal for the Ruling Class at the end of a
dynasty.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/...eral_dyna.html