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 Jack Wheeler
July 31, 2003
Reading Ann Coulter's Treason is a lot of fun. She has to
be the ballsiest chick in America. Part of what makes her so cool is
that you know she would love that description of her.
Aside from the sheer enjoyment of watching her rhetorically
eviscerate liberals, she performs a great public service in
rehabilitating Joe McCarthy
and exposing the Myth of
McCarthyism. "McCarthyism
is one of the markers on the left's Via Dolorossa," she observes. "It
is their slavery, their gulag, their potato famine. Otherwise liberals
would just be geeks from Manhattan and Hollywood."
So let's go beyond all the fun and outrage and cut to the chase.
Coulter is fabuloso at explaining what aid and comfort three
generations of liberals and Democrats have given to any and every
anti-American cause and group on the planet, but she is at a total loss
to explain why.
In the final concluding chapter, "Why Do They Hate Us?" you expect an
answer to the question, and all she can come up with is: Liberals think
they are gods. That's it. What the hell is that? There is not even an
explanation of what she could possibly mean. Do liberals believe they
(actually, no metaphors) reside in a non-physical supernatural realm and
have magical powers to create and manipulate laws of nature? That is
what it is to be a "god." Treason can only offer gobbledygook as
an attempt to explain why liberals are the way they are.
Further, America is hardly the only thing liberals are treasonous
towards. Calling someone a traitor to their country doesn't explain why
they are a traitor to their race, their culture, their civilization, and
their species.
Writer Susan Sontag has denounced the white race as "the cancer of
human history." She is white herself. A racist hatred of one's own
race -- auto-racism -- has become a defining characteristic of
the white liberal mind. But just exactly what has that got to do with
being anti-American?
We thus need a deeper understanding of what motivates liberals that
goes far beyond simply hurling epithets of treason and
traitor at them.
For such understanding, we need to travel to the Amazon. Among the
Yanomamo and other tribes deep in the Amazon rain forests, it is an
accepted practice that when a woman gives birth, she tearfully proclaims
her child to be ugly.
In a loud mortified lament that the entire tribe can hear, she asks
why the gods have cursed her with such a pathetically repulsive infant.
She does this in order to ward off the envious black magic of the Evil
Eye, the Mal Ojo, that would be directed at her by her fellow
tribespeople if they knew how happy she was with her beautiful baby.
Anthropologists observe that for most primitive and traditional
cultures, "every individual lives in constant fear of the magical
aggression of others... there is only one explanation for unforeseen
events: the envious black magic of another villager."
Envy is the source of tribal and traditional cultures'
belief in Black Magic, the fear of the envious Evil Eye. Reflect for a
moment on the extent to which tribespeople in a tribal, "primitive"
culture suffuse their lives with superstition, witchcraft, sorcery,
voodoo, "black magic," the "evil eye." The world for them is teeming
with demons, spirits, ghosts and gods, all of whom are malicious and
dangerous -- in a word, envious.
What Ann Coulter doesn't understand is that the liberal mind is an
atavism, a regression to a primitive mentality. Liberals believe in
Black Magic just as strongly as Yanomamos. What makes a liberal is his
or her fear of the Evil Eye of Envy.
An American liberal's primary motivation is not to betray his
country. It is to appease the envious. Liberalism is not a political
ideology. It is a psychological strategy to avoid being envied.
What causes someone to be a liberal is the fear of being envied.
It is the fear of being envied that is the source of "liberal guilt."
This is most easily seen in the children of wealthy parents.
Successful businessmen, for example, who have made it on their own
normally have a respect for the effort and the economic system that
makes success possible. Their children, who have not had to work for
it, are easier targets for guilt-mongering by the envious. So they
assume a posture of liberal compassion as an envy-deflection device:
"Please don't envy me for my father's money -- look at all the liberal
causes and government social programs I advocate" Teddy Kennedy is the
archetype of this phenomenon.
This is also why Hollywood is
so liberal. The vast amounts of money movie stars make is so grossly
disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it
is unearned. So they apologize for it. The Liberal's strategy is to
apologize for his success in order to appease the envious.
The passions of Limousine or
Hollywood Liberals are not traitorous. They are frenzies of
masochism. The more one fears being envied, the more one is driven to
masochistic self-humiliation in attempts at envy-appeasement. Traitors
are folks who go over to the other side for the money or some other
self-interested reason. Liberals root for the other side precisely
because they believe it is against their self-interests.
What, for example, could be more idiotic and masochistic than to
oppose missile defense? This opposition cannot be understood unless
one dispenses with its rhetoric and rationales and realizes that these
folks at their emotional core do not want their country defended.
The lunacy of the "global warming" hoax cannot be comprehended other
than its masochistic advocates do not want their civilization to
prosper. Culture-destroying illegal immigration policies are
defended by those who do not want their culture to survive.
The lethality of Liberal Envy-Appeasement is that personally-felt
guilt is projected onto the various social or tribal collectives to
which the liberal belongs and are a part of his self-identity.
Self-loathing is transformed into a loathing for one's society or race.
White liberals become auto-racist, male liberals
auto-sexist: racists towards their own race, sexists towards their
own sex. Dimestore demagogues like eco-fascist environmentalists,
feminazis, PETA animal rights loonies, NAMBLA pederasts, race hustlers
like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, all get their strength from the
liberal's fear of their Evil Eyes.
As the Amazon tribeswoman who says her baby is ugly, so the white
male liberal says his gender, his race, his country, his civilization,
and even his entire species is ugly.
Fear of envy is very deep-seated in the human psyche. Only a
youthful culture full of vigor and confidence can shrug it off, enabling
that culture to flourish. The road to cultural ruin lies in the fear of
envy reasserting itself from the primordial depths.
Today, America's elite universities have degenerated into fascist
cesspools of envy-appeasement. America's airlines compromise passenger
security by harassing people at random, rather than racially profiling
Arab and other Moslem men. The entire fascist phenomenon of political
correctness -- perhaps best exemplified by the New York Times editorial
page -- is nothing but a massive exercise in envy-appeasement.
One of the silver linings of September 11 is that it made the
American people mad enough to reject envy. They now could care less if
Moslems or the French or whomever are
envious of them. That rejection must be applied to the envy-panderers
and envy-appeasers within America herself.
Rejecting envy is the key to America's cultural resurgence and
survival. Fear of the Evil Eye is the only thing that gives the Evil
Eye any power. Without fear of it, the Evil Eye is impotent. Calling
folks traitors solves no problems and provides no solutions.
Conservatives instead need to reach out to liberals and help them
overcome their fear of envy. The Christian and American solution is to
enable liberals to feel proud, rather than embarrassed, to be
themselves, to be American, to be a participant in Western Civilization,
and to be a human being.
© Copyright 2003, Dr. Jack Wheeler and
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