The illusion of cultural Marxism



I was present on October 10, 1975, when Margaret Thatcher, in her first speech as Conservative Party Leader to the party's annual conference, said: "I sometimes think the Labor Party is like a pub where the mild is running out. If someone doesn't do something soon, all that's left will be bitter. And all that's bitter will be Left." Even those unfamiliar with different kinds of British beer will understand her point.

Fast forward 28 years to 2003. Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie recently echoed her thoughts in a memo to party leaders. "As the Democrat party gets smaller, it becomes more liberal, elitist, and angry," he said, "and as it becomes more liberal, elitist, and angry, it gets smaller."

There is no doubt about the trend. The Republicans have become America's dominant party. The President is popular and will be easily re-elected. His party controls the House, the Senate and over 60% of the nation's governorships.

As the Left suffers defeat after defeat politically, they have sought other arenas in which to spread their defeatist message of Cultural Marxism. If Socialism is losing the political and media battles, they are putting up a strong fight in the court system, the education system and other cultural battlegrounds.

We turn again to Margaret Thatcher for insight into the thinking of today's discredited lefties. In another Conference speech, on October 13, 1978, she said the socialist politicians of the time were not particularly foolish or unusually wicked but: "We have been ruled by men who live by illusions."

Atheistic Socialism is the illusion by which America's Left stills swears. They are deluded in thinking that you can have an orderly, low-crime, God-fearing society if you ban any and every mention of God in the public arena.

Another illusion, perhaps wishful thinking, is pretending the Constitution says things it doesn't say. An astounding editorial appeared in one of the Left's principal propaganda organs, the Washington Post, on Sunday, November 16, 2003, on the subject of Alabama's Chief Justice Roy Moore who was unconstitutionally removed from office because he refused to obey an unconstitutional and inappropriate order from a federal judge.

Two sentences illustrate the point: "Mr. Moore is a demagogue who has made a judicial career not in his performance in the courts but in his unconstitutional decoration of them. Most recently, he gained national attention when he installed a huge granite monument to the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Supreme Court building and then defied a federal court order to remove the obvious violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state."

Unconstitutional decoration? The obvious violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state? What does the First Amendment say about placing a scripture in a court or, for that matter, about separation of church and state? Nothing. Despite the anti-Christian Left's propaganda to the contrary, the term is never mentioned in the Constitution or in any official document anywhere.

In case you need reminding, the First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

By erecting a Ten Commandments monument in the courthouse, was Justice Moore the Congress? No. Was he establishing a religion? No. But was the federal judge prohibiting the free exercise thereof? Absolutely. And did the federal judge abridge the Chief Justice's freedom of speech? Absolutely.

As usual, the Washington Post provides its readers with absolute disinformation. They are 100% wrong. Furthermore, recent polls show that Justice Moore has the support of 77% of the people of Alabama and of the United States.

The Post goes on to describe Justice Moore as "a man who feels free to ignore the constitutionally designated system by which law is interpreted in a democratic society." Where in the Constitution does it say any such thing? That a federal judge can order a State's Chief Justice around? On the contrary, the Tenth Amendment clearly states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

So who should have been removed from office? Not Justice Moore, but Judge Myron Thompson, Attorney-General William Pryor and the other Supreme Court justices who agreed with him. They are the ones who twice violated the First Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and quite probably the Fourth, Eighth and Ninth Amendments too.

Does anyone believe that the editors of the Washington Post are ignorant of the Constitution? If not, we must conclude that their intention is to deliberately deceive and mislead. In that regard, they are no different from the rest of the degenerate mainstream media, who have been laboring to impose Cultural Marxism on the United States since President Kennedy was killed 40 years ago. And they are no different from those who have deliberately perverted America's education and judicial systems to ensure that people are kept in the dark as much as possible about what the constitution actually says.

Despite an overwhelming majority of professing Christians in the United States, a tiny, Marxist minority has hijacked the culture and is controlling it by dictating Cultural Marxism. I don't know about you, but I'd like my culture back, because the America I love is far better than the one we are gradually having imposed on us.

It won't happen without some concentrated effort. The task seems overwhelming. How do we stand up to the apparently huge army of cultural Marxists who seem to have taken control of the media, the education system and the courts? We must do it as we see it. We challenge every lie, no matter how subtle or seemingly trivial.

Recently, an Episcopal church in Virginia was advertising a "Holiday Tea" in December at which people were invited to "don their brightest holiday clothes" to celebrate the upcoming "holiday season". I called to protest. As a result, the event was correctly renamed a "Christmas Tea", but a second phone call was needed to replace the other offending words.

The Left have lost their monopoly of being offended. It's time for righteous anger from Christians to defeat the illusion. "Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's." (2 Chronicles 20: 15). Steve Myers © 2003, 2006