Political and Religious Zealotry

In her new book, Godless, an expose of the “Church of Liberalism,” Ann Coulter provides a unique insight into the relationship between liberalism, Democratic Party activism, and religious zealotry, pointing out that they are all but indistinguishable. It is an important message that Americans must begin to understand.

Coulter points out that liberalism is not so much a political ideology as it is a religion, with the Democratic Party comprising its congregation of souls. She explains, “(Liberalism) has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own worldview…”

But there’s more to it than that. What she fails to mention is that liberalism also possesses two indispensable institutions common to many of the world’s principal religious denominations: parochial schools and seminaries. 

With the unionization of public school teachers, liberals have slowly but surely converted our public schools into a vast network of parochial schools. Classroom teachers, the “nuns” and “brothers” of the Liberal Church, are, with few exceptions, Democratic Party activists – militant sycophants of powerful labor unions. 

In our colleges and universities, radical professors propagandize and indoctrinate impressionable young men and women. Most Americans are unaware that, when they send their kids away to college, they are actually sending them away to seminary.

Yes, liberals and Democrats are liars, dissemblers and propagandists, but do they deserve to be tagged as violent and criminal, as well? Should the same behavioral characteristics of history’s cruelest and most deadly theocracies also apply to the “religious” fanaticism of modern day liberals? 

In her new book, Unhinged, columnist Michelle Malkin documents countless instances of Democratic mobs and vandals carrying out acts of terror against Republicans in hundreds of cities and towns all across America. 

She documents numerous instances of AFL-CIO “brown shirts” invading Bush-Cheney headquarters, beating and terrorizing volunteers and destroying computer equipment. In other cities, Democratic “drive-by” shooters fired rifles and shotguns through the windows of Republican Party offices. In cities all across America, Bush-Cheney supporters were attacked and beaten by Democratic Party terrorists, without warning and without provocation.

Such acts of violence by Democrats are commonplace in every election, but if we can take them at their word we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Liberal University of California (Berkeley) lecturer Hatem Bazian tells us, “… it’s about time that we have an intifada… they’re gonna say Palestinians (are) too radical – well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”

Alan G. Hevesi, the Democratic Comptroller of the State of New York, recently introduced New York’s radical Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer. He described Schumer as a man who “could put a bullet between the eyes of the president – if he could get away with it.” 

These are men who put into words what other liberals and Democrats are only thinking. And we haven’t even begun to consider the tens of thousands of instances of vote-stealing and fraud by Democrats in every election.

These are not rational people. These are people who, outwardly, appear convinced of the rightness of their cause, but who, in their own hearts, are so unconvinced of the rightness of their cause that they feel no obligation whatsoever toward civilized behavior. Their arguments won’t convince, so they allow their guns and their fists to speak for them. Their religion is Liberalism and their Church is the Democratic Party. 

Anyone who doubts the viciousness of the “religious” zealotry that Coulter and Malkin describe is free to conduct a simple experiment. If they have the courage, they can show up at a major Democratic political rally carrying a picket sign that says some very unkind things about Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid.   

Then, after they’ve been released from the hospital, and if they’re able to walk once again, they can visit a Republican political rally carrying a picket sign denouncing the leading Republican candidates in similar terms. Republicans would not like the message, but they would defend to the death anyone’s right to say it. It would never occur to them to harm the messenger. 

The Democratic Party Platform of 2004 contains these words: “We are committed to resolving our differences in a spirit of civility, hope, and mutual respect.” Differences with whom? The Taliban? Al Qaeda? The PLO? Certainly not with other Americans exercising their rights under the First, Twelfth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments.

Our only saving grace is that, at least for now, the “religious” zealots of the political left lack the courage to strap bombs to their own bodies.