Liz Peek says that the waters are calm, yet the American
ship of state is sinking at a time when other ships – especially those of ISIS,
Russia and China – are doing well. She blames the situation on the American “elites”
who see nothing good about America … even teach such lessons to their children
and to those of others.
Peek is doing this in the article she wrote under the title:
“Why Elites Think 'Pro-America' Is So Last Century,” published on January 28,
2015 in The Fiscal Times. The amazing part is that she is behaving like those
of her ilk who carry little demons on their shoulders telling them what to say
and what to do. These are the calamity creatures that come armed with sabotage
instruments they use to poke new holes in the hulk of the ship as they go
around the maintenance crews who work furiously to plug the holes.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world can see that America's
agents of doom are the little demons who deliberately work to sink the ship,
and then tell the likes of Peek that it is Americans of one stripe or another
who cause the country's current troubles. In response, she and those of her ilk
do the mea culpa, a false act of contrition that keeps them from going after
the demons they carry on their shoulders and those on the hulk of the ship who
work to speed up its sinking.
Peek uses the example of an agency called the Broadcasting
Board of Governors (BBG) to show how Americans of a certain stripe cause the
country to lose the respect of the world, thus “lose ground to ISIS, and lose
the hearts and minds of thousands of impressionable young men and women to
radical Islam.” She explains that all this is due to: “Political jockeying,
lack of direction, mission confusion and union battles,” reasons why the U.S.
has been without a voice during a period of intense Jihad recruiting.
There is good news however, she goes on to say, because
someone new has been appointed to head that agency, and he may just be able to
fix it, and fix the other things. But wait a minute, how is he going to do
that? She thinks aloud and tries to give a response: He will have to convince
the world “that U.S. values and beliefs are … what, exactly?” Confused, she can
only observe: “We are also hampered by today's culture.”
Only now does she identify the stripe of those who “break
out in hives” when something positive is said about America, calling them the
“liberal elites” who oppose the idea of changing the BBG into an overtly
propaganda arm of the United States government. She laments this situation
because, in her view, it is a reversal of a time when America defeated both
Nazism and Communism precisely because “Americans believed in themselves and
their country.”
But what about the demons on her shoulder whispering in her
ear what to say and what to do, as well as those on the hulk of the ship who
poke holes into it? Is she going to say something about them? Oh what a couple
of stupid questions! Of course, she is not going to say something about them;
they are the ones telling her what to say and what to do. Surely, they will not
denounce themselves or advocate their removal from the scene.
And so, she doubles down on the mea culpa thing by
generalizing the blame and pinning it on “a president, and a younger generation
that views the U.S. through a different prism.” She says this has encouraged
the news organizations to give false or incomplete coverage of events such as
the war in Afghanistan, and has contributed to the doubt that built up with
regard to America's military and America's morals.
To solve the cultural problems, she suggests: “We should
debate the issues that challenge us.” To explain how this can be done, she
blurts out what the demons on her shoulder whisper in her ear. Thus, instead of
shouting: “Let's put a long moratorium on listening to the Jewish demons that
have done so much already to destroy America,” she says this: “It is important
to question and challenge our government.” And why is that? Because she says:
“We need a balance.” What balance? Oh, stop asking embarrassing questions.
Instead, she goes on to say: “We believe in free speech...”
without saying that she is not free to even pronounce the word “Jew” because if
she does, the Jewish demons on her shoulder will stop whispering, and will get
on with the business of beheading her professionally, assassinating her
character and ruining her life.