The gods of Political Correctness

George Neumayr succinctly explains just what the hell is going on in Washington DC in his HUMAN EVENTS piece today. Be sure to read the entire article, but here are a couple of the money paragraphs:

As America careens from one artificial public controversy to the next, it becomes more and more obvious that politically correct liberalism dominates both parties, albeit in varying degrees of intensity. The Democrats represent full-throttle political correctness while Republicans stand ready to advance political correctness just a little bit more slowly.

One of the Democrats' most successful rackets is to label any Republican position, no matter how timid, "extremist." This ensures that skittish Republicans will eventually even step away from that timid position. The "conservative" position, under the pressures of this demagoguery, inevitably becomes the liberal one of yesteryear, and then a little time passes and that position is deemed outrageous. This is seen across the board -- such as when Democrats and Republicans squabble pointlessly over the rate of growth of federal programs that shouldn't exist in the place -- but it shows up most starkly on moral issues.

Look at the ginned-up outrage over Marine Gen. Peter Pace's opposition to homosexual behavior in the military -- a dispute which is designed to make even support for Bill Clinton's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy appear "extremist." After suffering more than a decade of political correctness mau-mauing, Republicans have gone from opposing that policy in 1992 as a stupid and needless relaxation of a total ban on homosexuals to supporting that policy (as a Clinton-era concession to liberalism) to signaling a willingness to embrace the full-blown PC position on gays in the military, which is: Don't Care. For those keeping score, today's outlandishly "conservative" position, as determined by the ever-changing scale of political correctness, is Bill Clinton's policy.

Again, please read the entire piece. I've been saying for years to anyone who would listen, that the dems have become overt socialists and the republicans have become liberal democrats, leaving the conservatives in the learch.

Conservatives aren't going to find anyone currently serving in public "service" to lead their movement; some new blood will have to emerge and fast if this toxic PC trend is to be overturned.