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THE AMERICAN LEFTIST AGENDA

By Tony Elliott

The nucleus of Politically Correctness began in the 1960's at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a way to neutralize differences among people in society. For example, the term used for anyone with a physical deficiency before the dawn of PC was crippled which was an accepted term used at the time. This was replaced with handicapped when this too was judged as degrading to such individuals it was later replaced with the word disabled.

During the 1970's and 1980's PC slowly crept its way into all areas of American society's daily life and really took off in the 1990's with the Clinton Administration. Since then American society has allowed this form of Liberalism to permeate all facets of conduct in our lives. This would not be a problem if PC was just a tool of bridging the gaps between our differences as individuals but it has become an instrument used by Liberals both in the academic and government fields to concrete their fascist agenda.

The very idea of PC being a correct way to identify individuals themselves and their differing life styles is in itself creating differences among the population.

Racial differences among American society are today as fictionalizing under PC as they ever were before. Labels are still being used to identify differences such as African Americans for blacks, Mexican or Spanish Americans for most people south of the border and identifying countries of those of related dissent.

This sort of identification still labels individuals as being different from a center majority and is in itself flawed because to fully be PC racially one would have to dissect a person's origin from hundreds of possibilities.

Race is made up of huge regions of the globe, which encompasses many countries having the same race rather than one country in particular for each racial origin. Therefore, the PC ideal for labeling people of different races here in America by country is absurd.

The absolute correctness of racial identification of individuals is not to label them at all. For example, we in the United States should not be considered anything else but Americans. The very idea of labeling people by country of origin rather than considering them citizens of the country they either were born in or gained citizenship in is a blatant attempt by the far left to further degrade the glory of the U.S. as a country and move us toward a borderless global community.

This idea would not be so bad if everyone else in the world were going along with it but the fact of the matter is only a handful are willing to. The rest of the world would rather die fighting for the sovereignty of their country rather than become consumed into a region without an identity. Thus, PC is only an ideal of the American left and years away from being recognized by most countries of the world.

PC is only a part of the overall agenda by ultra liberals in this country. The Green Movement which is designed to break American industry and reduce the country to a Third World category is for the purpose of degrading us to a level where we will have to rely on other industrial countries such as China and India for products and energy necessary for the survival of our population. If we have to rely on imported products and services for everything we need we will have to accept the ideal of integrating into a world body because we will not be producing anything.

The PC way of fighting wars has been in place since the 1960's where we lost the Vietnam War and every one since then.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars should not have been started in the first place because we will lose them too. In the end, we will have nothing to show for being at war in these countries but the large number of dead and disabled soldiers who fought them under restricted circumstances. It is obvious America cannot win any war under trying to fight with PC restrictions. The only problem with fighting wars with PC restrictions is the fact that the enemy always fights as if they are in a war, which has no restrictions and not playing a video game like we do. Under these circumstances, we should simply pull all troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bring them home instead of playing this game and duping the public into believing we are going to win.

The open border situation we have now and have had since the 70's is also part of this Leftist Agenda to bring in so many people into this country it will force us to change the very face of our society culturally and burden the job market to the point that legal citizens of the U.S. are dragged down to accept a standard of living as low as those who are here illegally.

It is a sad situation in this country today where Border Patrol Agents and soldiers of the Armed Forces of the U.S. are prosecuted for doing their jobs. It is only because of PC that this situation is allowed and praised by our elected officials.

Under PC, it is considered Unpatriotic to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools because it might offend someone who is not Christian. The word God is unacceptable in any government place of business because of the same reasons.

It seems to me that the time has come for true Americans who love their country because of the Constitution it was based on in the first place and desire to live in a country based on ideals from which it was conceived have to just say no to these destructive and pervasive idealism's which are designed to bring down this great nation.

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Added: December 07, 2009. 07:38 AM CST
There is no one correct way to categorize people.
You're taking easy potshots at "political correctness", but truthfully, who have you ever met who defends it?

A braver and more balanced article would really explore the ways that trying to be more courteous in our interactions with others strengthens us, rather than perceiving anything other than bluster and insults as weakness.

You're frustrated at the linguistic shift from "crippled" to "differently abled", but this kind of "euphemism treadmill" has been a feature of English for as long as the language has existed. It's likely that in another generation, euphemisms that are currently considered respectful (say, "people of color" for people who aren't white) will be considered insulting, and new ones will have taken their place. The fact this treadmill exists doesn't mean that it's reasonable for us to cry "Halt". Simply deciding not to talk about any differences is infinitely more stifling than having imperfect and shifting names for those differences.

If someone wants to call themselves "African-American", or "Irish-American", I have no problem with that. It doesn't harm me.

Regarding the wars, being too PC is not the problem. If you think that the problem is that we didn't torture enough, didn't nuke enough, didn't vaporize enough civilians, then you have a strange idea of what America is and what victory would mean.

Like it or not, the world holds America to a high standard, because America itself declares itself to be committed to human freedom. We can win if we hold to it. We were able to defeat Soviet Russia without nukes, without gulags, without the kinds of internal repression the Communists used; and Soviet Russia was an incomparably greater threat than the terrorists we face now. Abandoning our principles in pursuit of victory will simply create more terrorists than we can possibly torture or kill. The war in Afghanistan may indeed not be winnable, but it would have not been winnable using more nukes and torture either.

Have more faith in this country, Mr. Elliott.
Zander
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