{"id":4647,"date":"2018-03-28T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/trump-adultery-morality-and-the-alinskyite-left-2\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:53:41","slug":"trump-adultery-morality-and-the-alinskyite-left-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/trump-adultery-morality-and-the-alinskyite-left-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Adultery, Morality, and the Alinskyite Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no wisdom on the Left and no common sense. Dennis Prager is a prominent purveyor of common sense.  So if you don't know what it is you can learn it from him.  Here<\/a> is a sample:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It should be clear that this whole preoccupation with Trump\u2019s past sex life has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with humiliating Trump \u2014 and, thereby, hopefully weakening the Trump presidency \u2014 the raison d'etre of the media since he was elected. Here\u2019s one proof: The media rightly celebrate, as we all do, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the moral greats of the 20th century despite reports of his having committed adultery on numerous occasions. [I would add that he also plagiarized portions of his Boston University dissertation.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, the media and the Left idolized Sen. Ted Kennedy, regularly referring to him as the \u201cLion of the Senate.\u201d Yet Kennedy was notorious for his lechery \u2014 far more so than Trump. Typical Ted Kennedy behavior, as described in New York<\/em> magazine, was when he and then-fellow Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd \u201cparticipated in the famous \u2018waitress sandwich\u2019 at La Brasserie in 1985, while their dates were in the bathroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy remains the most revered of Democratic presidents in the modern era. Yet we now know he routinely had affairs in the White House in his wife\u2019s absence and had the Secret Service provide him advance notice of her return.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, by the way, if sexual infidelity invalidates the character and, therefore, the worthiness of a politician, why doesn\u2019t it invalidate the character and worthiness of an editor at The New York Times or The Washington Post? Why aren\u2019t their sex lives investigated? They have, after all, more influence than almost any politician.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Double Standard or an Alinskyite Tactic?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One mistake I have corrected in my own political thinking — thanks in part to Malcolm Pollack and 'Jacques' — is the tendency to confuse the double standard with a hard-Left Alinskyite tactic the name of which, if it has one, I don't know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you and I are politically opposed but agree on certain values or standards. We are, for example, both strongly committed to free speech and open inquiry.  But your behavior suggests a tacit commitment to "Free speech for me but not for thee." This is an example of a double standard. The moniker is infelicitous in that there are not two standards but one; what makes the  standard 'double' is that it is inconsistently applied.  While sincerely professing a commitment to free speech you tend to take it more seriously in your own case and less seriously in the cases of those with opposing views. You really do accept the value of free speech; it is just that you have a hard time in the heat of conflict applying it fairly and consistently to all parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is something far worse than the double standard.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most vicious and mendacious type of leftist will feign an interest in our conservative standards and then use them against us.  In many cases  they don't even feign the interest. <\/span><\/p>\n

The sex business referenced above is a good example. Leftists do not value chastity, sexual purity, traditional marriage (as opposed to same-sex 'marriage'), marital fidelity.  Talk of lust as a deadly sin is a joke to them. They have a pronounced libertine wobble and are entirely too 'sophisticated' for the above. They celebrate 'alternative sexual lifestyles.'  Bestiality is not a grave sin but something to joke about (Al Franken). <\/span><\/p>\n

Since they do not share our standards when it comes to sexual behavior, it is a mistake to accuse them of a double standard when they pillory Trump while giving Teddy a pass.  The truth is, they see politics as war and will do anything to win including using our standards against us while mocking those very standards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same with free speech. The Alinskyite hard Left doesn't give a damn about free speech except insofar as they can use it it to destroy free speech. These tactics are at least as old as V. I. Lenin, and people need to be aware of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our political opponents on the Left are not fellow citizens but domestic enemies<\/em> and the sooner we admit this fact the better.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Teddy Boy's waitress sandwich, you can read about it here<\/a>.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no wisdom on the Left and no common sense. Dennis Prager is a prominent purveyor of common sense.  So if you don't know what it is you can learn it from him.  Here is a sample: It should be clear that this whole preoccupation with Trump\u2019s past sex life has nothing to do … Continue reading “Trump, Adultery, Morality, and the Alinskyite Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[488,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-double-standards","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}