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Bethell, Tom
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...We are dealing with the displaced religious faith of people who have no interest whatsoever in GNP, and who in fact pride themselves on their disdain for the "consumer society...
...They have a faith, a "vision" (as it is always said) of a "new society": one day there will be an entirely new order that will displace the day-to-day reality that they mostly find intolerable...
...And if both these things do come to pass, then the ideological wars of the coming decade could make the so-called McCarthy Era look like a love-in...
...They ridicule the totalitarian/authoritarian distinction, but they make it themselves by excusing the former and attacking the latter...
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...Indigenous Communist sympathizers who have been lobbying and phoning Congress are true believers...
...Clarence Page...
...the Black Muslims...
...Jackson's career...
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...you'll rage about his $200.000 connection with the Arab League...
...Sure, the Soviet Union didn't work out, Cuba didn't work out, China didn't work out, Vietnam, Mozambique, Angola didn't work out, but now there is once again a vision of a new society, this time in Nicaragua...
...Patrick] Buchanan and [Richard] Wirthlin," Robert Merry wrote in the Wall Street Journal c:i March 5. "Mr...
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...Of course a good many Democrats will remain unembarrassed by any such development, and one hundred or so will no doubt continue to vote against any military aid for the contras...
...I thought McCarthyism was the imputation of "guilt by association," as for example, in charging the contras with allegiance to Somoza because a few old Somoza hands may be in their midst...
...But, there is this Ronald Reagan who is determined to kill the Messiah in the crib...
...They have got a lobbying organization against us that would make your head spin," Mac Carey, the press aide to Congressman Jim Courter of New Jersey, told me on the day before the vote...
...Neither of the Nixon girls ever tried to promote herself by airing petty disagreements with the family or by writing trashy books...
...Reagan did not squander political capital...
...There has been no comparable grassroots effort on our side," Courter added...
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...Only by not fighting on the issue—Wirthlin's worth-less advice—would political capital have been frittered away...
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...Dur-i ing campaigns the kids are placed under the professional care of politicalconsultants, who unerringly transform them into presentable human beings...
...To them that would be a promise, not a threat...
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...Pollsters are demand-siders, evidently under the impression that the President should be a follower...
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...Pollsters should be barred from the .White House by constitutional amendment...
...Richard Nixon's character has been exposed to more scalpel work than any other American in history, yet those who mark him down as a knave have to account for the exemplary behavior of his children...
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...Whatever happens I do hope that certain conservative writers, who have imagined with an excess of optimism that the gross economic inefficiencies of socialism will destroy its appeal, have by now changed their minds...
...It's amazing, incidentally, that the left complains, as it often does, about the political "apathy" of the population-at-large...
...There's been a lot of groups," Courter himself told me...
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...It could be put this way: There are today far more activists who believe in and are willing to work for faraway Communism than there are active opponents of it...
...Then came the issue of aid to the Contras fighting the Nicaraguan Communists, and at that point we learned something about the President's Miser-in-Chief...
...No presidential pup in my memory has been a perfect ass until after father's election...
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...Perhaps the reason that we do not judge Presidents by the children they sire is that of all the presidential children to pass through the White House in recent years the finest have been the children of Richard Nixon...
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...Wirthlin, a longtime Reagan associate whose polling company Decision Making Information surveys public opinion for the President, argued that Mr...
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...As Churchill wrote of Asquith, his children are his best memorials...
...About sixty Democratic congressmen have shown an unmistakable pattern of sympathy for totalitarian, pro-Soviet regimes in a variety of votes and may be expected to continue voting in this pattern...
...You can see why the people in marginal districts get scared...
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...The only catch is that every battle would be fought on terms accept-able to the liberals...
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...Courter's office was bombarded with such groups, even though he has never wavered in his support for the aid package...
...A White House pollster who counsels a prudently low presidential profile on an issue that is itself low profile preemptively dissipates the very "public opinion" that he pretends to measure...
...The point is that Communist sympathizers should be juxtaposed not to anti-Communists, but to everyday folk who already have a religion...
...If Americans held to Euripides' maxim that the sins of the fathers are made flesh in the writhings of the children, the American presidency would not be the revered institution that it is, but rather a source of embarrassment comparable to America's curious epicurism toward Wonder-bread...
...The next day the Washington Post's editorial began: "The House vote on aid to the Nicaragua contras is a bitter disappointment to President Reagan but not necessarily a conclusive defeat...
...you'll fume about his treatment of ======================= black author Barb' ara Reynolds...
...American children are raised in schools that presume to teach them everything from nutrition to sexual pathology, on Little League playing fields, on dance floors...
...Aristotle taught that children should be kept away from all that is base and violent...
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...And a President who shelters behind such a cautious array of pollsters and counselors reduces his own role from that of leader to accountant...
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...He accumulates political capital by the bagful, but he is reluctant to spend it...
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...We are talking about a group of people—a small minority, to be sure, compared with the whole population—who yearn and ache for the Communist ideal and who, at the level of practical organization, far outnumber those who actively oppose Communism...
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...They are on the whole fairly contented, and they neither feel the need for a "new society" nor do they worry very much about those in their midst who do feel such a need...
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...But the obvious truth is that most Americans don't know very much about who is THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 1986 II doing what in Nicaragua, and they will quite reasonably tend to oppose such foreign involvement if the President himself doesn't consider the issue important enough to make a big fuss about...
...Then, four years later, they can vote themselves a new President if they don't like what the old one has done, or failed to do...
...This inequality of pressure is of considerable interest, yet I don't think anyone has really tried to analyze it...
...Public opinion" on an issue as remote from everyday lives as contra aid can only be created by leader-ship...
...There is prime time television, and there are those gruesome shopping malls to which youths abandon themselves...
...If Soviet or Eastern bloc support for the Nicarguan Communists increases, Republicans will be well placed to say "I told you so...
...They certainly have no comprehension of the zeal and intensity of such people...
...Then come the luridities: books best left unwritten, business deals of the utmost indelicacy, statements fit for an idiot...
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...If Pat Buchanan's warning proves correct and the Communist plague spreads north from Nicaragua, then of course the anti-Communist ranks will grow...
...One highly motivated group roams the halls of Congress...
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...Congressional researcher Frank Gregorsky, who has spent a lot of time tracking the voting records of the one hundred or so left-wing Democrats who routinely vote against all such anti-Communist measures, also suggested to me a week before the vote that the unequal lobbying pressure on Congress was important to bear in mind in considering the motives of congressmen...
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...Appropriately enough, Wirthlin is a Keynesian...
...She is a "militant vegetarian," which means, presumably, she throws food...
...Actually neither of the Nixon children has ever betrayed a base or stupid motive, though both endured the most excruciating times...
...A pollstered President is a weather vane, not a leader...
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...The actual tally of yeas and nays was far less important than the framing of the issue...
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...What keeps them going is the hope of changing it...
...On March 20 the House of Representatives voted down the aid package 222-210...
...you'll boil with indigat ion over his fast and loose Juggling of government money...
...I gather that most of these calls were against the President's position...
...For the moment, however, the Buchanan strategy on contra aid has strengthened the conservative position...
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...That way Reagan could "win" every battle...
...The liberals do this when they conclude thata "pattern of discrimination" by an employer implies racism and requires an affirmative-action remedy—whether or not the employer thinks of himself as a racist...
...Anti-Communists in a non-Communist country are quite rare...
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...It is opposed by a group of anti-Communist activists so small that they could probably all fit inside one congressman's office...
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...Fortunately Buchanan won that in-house debate and we had two very interesting weeks of political fireworks in Washington—perhaps in retrospect a key episode in Reagan's presidency...
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...Some offices got 700 phone calls in the two days following the President's speech...
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...They spend their energies resisting a threat that the vast majority of people do not perceive as having anything to do with their daily lives...
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...It is fantastic to imagine thatthere is any such thing as "public opinion" on such an issue as aid to rebel forces fighting or perhaps hiding in the jungle 2,000 miles away from the U.S...
...Finally, Michael Kinsley said in the New Republic that to impute sympathies without inquiring into motives is the essence of McCarthyism...
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...And this has been the great defect of Reagan's policy in Central America—until March, 1986...
...Doesn't Wirthlin know that most people have to go to work every day and don't have the luxury of worrying about such distant events...
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...The actual lobbying pressure in the halls of Congress before the vote disclosed the reality of public sentiment on the issue of contra aid...
...So the inequality of pressure on Congress can be expressed in this way...
...Wirthlin feared, could set the President up for a big political defeat...
...I do not mean that the issue is unimportant...
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...Reagan would simply squander political capital if he mounted a high profile offensive on the issue...
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...The reality was (and is): an intensely motivated, passionate dense-pack of sit-in prone leftists, "peace" groups, socialists-byother-names, educators, women's groups, church groups, uprooted nuns and deracinated clergy roaming the corridors with their flocks behind them...
...Perhaps it is time to allow parents to divorce their children when they become incompatible or in other ways unwholesome...
...What is unfortunate is that parents still have to live with their children, though they might be developing stupendously offensive habits and ideas...
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...The Wirth-less Strategy—favored by many of the people Reagan likes to have around him—is for Reagan to press his case only when there is a consensus behind it...
...They will not be at all dismayed to learn that there will be no Cuisinarts in the New Society of their dreams...
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...The whole idea of representative democracy is that the people elect a President to do such worrying for them, and to take action if necessary...
...continue to manifest the surprising weakness and loss of nerve of the past two decades, then the pro-Communist ranks will also certainly grow...
...By forcing Congress to take sides on an issue defined (by Buchanan) as "whose side are you on," and as "standing with Ronald Reagan and the resistance, or Daniel Ortega and the Communists," the White House has marvelously clarified the political landscape and possibly exposed the Democratic party to danger down the road...
...Howard Phillips is one example, Arnold Beichman is another...
Vol. 19 • May 1986 • No. 5
