The Charles Johnson Syndrome in Conservatism

Astrophysicist and author David Brin has noted the prevalence of the imperative of “otherness” — the mandate that one must try to see any dispute from the other party’s viewpoint — among Americans generally, and particularly among Americans who identify themselves as liberals. When he first wrote of it, he said he’d found it to be so strong that it had sunk below the rational level in most of the people he knew, and operated essentially without conscious invocation. (Link)

This is what I have come to call the CJS, or ‘Charles Johnson Syndrome’; when the inexorable detritus of liberal indoctrination leaves your everyday conservative defenseless in the face of the enemy, deprived of voice and sense after decades of leftist PC inculcation. In the case of LGF’s Charles Johnson, his liberal ideological underpinning proved to be far more deeply entrenched than his brief foray into conservatism could prevail against. Inevitably, the deeply held contempt for Christian-Judeo values that is preached incessantly to Americans from every media outlet their entire lives overruled any emerging comprehension of what he had for so long been trained to devalue. Eventually Charles dropped the demeanor of reasonable debate and became a little Blog-tator, weeding out of his robust conservative audience those who failed to adhere to Charles’s re-emerging amoral template.

A quick aside, commenting on this censorial nature of the left invites a topic too large to touch on here, and I do realize the right has resorted to a book-burning mentality often as well. However, I recall in the early months of my political awakening the utter confusion I experienced when these totalitarian traits came from what I had always assumed were liberal arenas, not having yet understood the transmogrification of liberalism. I feel safe saying that any ideology demanding suppression of opposing views has no Truth capable of contending on the battlefield. I have not called for censoring the left, but to ignore the fact that a reciprocal generosity is lacking is idiotic and obtuse. To subject oneself to the fallacy of hate legislation, the favored cudgel applied to “offensive” speech, under the pretense of practicing fairness, is to unleash the Orwellian whirlwind we now reap.

Getting back to the specific topic at hand, I ran into this CJS type “whirlwind” yesterday on Twitter, confronting in one woman this obdurate insistence that my conservative credentials (apparently someone is handing out certificates of conservative authenticity) were somehow faulty if I refuse to demonstrate tolerance for the gay class, or “the other” – a term condescendingly employed to ascribe a phobic aspect to perceived non-tolerance. Yet tolerance seems to have been redefined as acquiescence, a sacrifice of principles to the point of nullification in order to demonstrate some misguided notion of American ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’.

The same syndrome is rearing it’s nasty head via those ‘conservatives’ who denounce we who refuse to incorporate the same moral equivocation in evaluating the “religion” of Islam, accelerated by the Ground Zero Mosque desecration. Atlas Shrugs has battled against this dhimmitude for a decade. It seems that in order to prove that Americans are essentially such superior, moral people that we will permit our own destruction. But there is nothing morally superior about accepting evil as a valid member of the community. To be bereft of all means of judging is to stand defenseless against all onslaught, as if by stubbornly clinging to the notion of “American equality” that we need become supine inferiors, ashamed of our traditions and identity.

This touches on so many of the maladies that have innervated the normally strong American will. I am reminded of an explanation given about the OT telling of Sodom & Gomorrah. Skeptics ask how could Lot be considered a righteous man when he was so ready to offer his daughters for the erotic pleasure of the crowd of men beating at his door seeking the angels they’d observed entering. The answer given was that Lot was quite used to the soup he swam in, inured to the evil practiced around him.It did not occur to him as unreasonable or untoward to offer his daughters. I think that is quite true of the American conservative. We are no longer appalled, nor do we even recognize, the evil that now parades about in the light of day. Those who consider themselves conservative, who subscribe to the values inherent in the founding of America, none the less, are quite oblivious to the memes or precepts that we have absorbed in this innocuous, familiar soup that contradict the core of the values we seek to preserve.

I am not going to delineate my thinking on the gay issue in this post, but the fact that I was attacked by the twitter conservative as an “intolerant fundie” because I hold a certain opinion of homosexuality serves to spotlight the fissure that threatens any unity Conservatives might achieve. For me, it goes to foundational principles. A poorly laid foundation may temporarily support the edifice built on it, but inevitably defective material will imperil the integrity of the entire structure, ultimately leading to it’s collapse. The defective material conservatives innocently bring into the mix is our relationship with nihilism. We are quite used to it. It is a seductress whose call we have long listened to. It is that element of the homosexual question that I object to.

Homosexual marriage is favored by the Left because of this nihilistic instinct, because of its potential to dismantle a natural-law-based, Judeo-Christian Civilization. Monogamous, heterosexual, child-centered marriage is the building block of the Left-detested real world it is bent on annihilating.

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A ruling that declares the State to be indifferent to the fruit of the family has struck the heart of the Left’s enemy. The practical conclusion is that self-contained gratification is of equal value as children.

Nihilism is advanced by the homosexual marriage debate because it affords the Left with “proof” of the evils of America. Far from being superior to other cultures, we still persecute the “other,” we are shown to be religious obscurantists, bigots, and even hypocrites since we criticize Islamic countries in which homosexuals are hung, but outlaw homosexual marriage. The Left deftly convinces Americans that only by shedding their traditional morals will they demonstrate true enlightenment, freedom, and what we heretofore falsely touted as national respect for freedom. (Link)

The nihilism inherent in homosexuality inevitably expresses itself in an enervated feminized society – regardless of how nice and clever and engaging it’s denizens are. And may I head off at the pass the accusation that by saying all of this, I am advocating for the eradication of gays. I most emphatically am not. But attempting to normalize an aberrant sexual behavior necessitates distorting reality to the point where the elitists now freely seek to convince us sheeple that there are no gender differences at all, as if by developing a “body of research” attached to a PHD is sufficient voodoo to belie reality.

The power of the Leftist culture lies in the illusion of its undisputed veracity.This illusion needs to be shattered.

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