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The Privileged Call for Limited Dictatorships
Elizabeth Scalia, "The Anchoress"Commenting on Woody Allen and Tom Friedman's open admiration for benevolent dictatorship: The leftist party that these people support is currently in control of both houses of congress and the White House (and they are well-represented within the federal judiciary) and yet, it is not enough. The power is not pure enough, it is not invincible enough; their power is diluted because, dammit, those little people crowing about the constitution all over the internets are mucking things up!... Friedman and Mitchell, and even that self-absorbed twerp Woody Allen are all wringing their hands over something they cannot (yet) control; alternative media and how it has contributed to the difficulties of getting things done in Washington. When the press had a monopoly on information, it was much easier for them to influence opinion; that in turn made the legislator's jobs easier, too. Now, yes, things are more difficult for the politicians, but that's mostly because they insist upon working as they always have (the incestuous commingling of pols and media freaks on the left, and pols and business freaks on the right, with back-room-deals-aplenty, back-scratching galore and pork, pork, pork for everyone) while the electorate has decided it wants something different. So, Allen and Friedman--and others who have kept their faces before us for 40 years by coasting on the work of their youth, because they've done nothing memorable, lately--are feeling the shifting sand beneath their feet, and they're wondering why America can't simply submit to a fantasy of Limited Dictatorship. It's so inconvenient for these elites to have to deal with the noise of the bourgeoisie -- commoners who presume to opine on anything and who dare to object to the incessant lecturing from their betters. So, let's be China "for a little while..." (just long enough to get everything we want accomplished). Because what they want must, of course, darling, be the very thing that needs doing. Let's allow Obama to be dictator "for a couple of years," because that preening narcissist will certainly give up his dictatorship once the nowhere-utopia of which the left dreams is achieved. Right? Of course.... Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world. It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we've got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on "remaking America." Speaking of the wonderfulness that is China... Posted by: Mike 2010-05-25 |
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