The
impending death of the Republican Party will have been caused because they did
nothing to staunch the bleeding caused by thousands of tiny knife wounds
inflicted by a well entrenched army of the left and the fact that the limp
wristed, wuss leaders of the Party (see John Boehner) did nothing to fight
back.
Ben Shapiro’s
book Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of
Fear and Intimidation Silences America is a call to arms and a call to
action for conservatives. Shapiro lays out chapter and verse, example after
example of how the left has built a multi-faceted approach not only to
politics, but to power.
It’s reads
like something out of Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu the way the left has
steadily built a power base in institutions like the media, the education
system, Hollywood, and the non-profit world and utilized that power to beat
down (in the case of union thugs, sometimes literally) the opposition.
Republicans
and conservatives have been cowed to silence for fear of being labeled racist,
homophobe, or anti-this that or the other thing. In the process the Left has so
thoroughly changed the face of our culture that what once would have been deemed
outrageous is now seen as somehow normal.
Shapiro’s
call to action is that conservatives are at a tipping point (to use a cultural
buzzword) where they charged with deciding if they want to fight or switch. Do
they want to stand up and fight back on behalf of the Republican Party, which
all too often bails on conservatives, or do they want to build something new to
challenge the status quo. In may boil down to the ages old conundrum of the “devil
you know…”
Shapiro’s
best point is that conservatives can no longer be silenced by the Left’s
tactics. It won’t be easy to withstand the withering assault that will come
your way if you choose to take on the ingrained machine of the Left. I think
that Shapiro really exposed how weak the Left really is when they get
confronted head on during his recent
interview with snotty Brit, CNN’s Piers Morgan. When confronted head on
Morgan shows what a sputtering moron he really is; it is a clear case of an
merciless beat down by Shapiro. It is that kind of gloves off response that is
long overdue from conservatives.
I laughed
out loud at the irony when Shapiro quotes failed Republican Presidential
candidate Mitt Romney, who was talking about Obama’s approach to fixing the
economy when he said “When you have an enterprise in trouble, the number one
rule is focus, focus, focus.” Perhaps that is good advice for the Republican
Party; clearly they have an enterprise in trouble, the question is what will
their focus be? Clearly Ben Shapiro has laid out a strong case for how to
bounce back.
