Atilla the Conservative

Ten million words have probably been written about Newspeak: the word George Orwell coined for the dumbed-down language with the purpose of controlling public perception and belief. Certainly the decay of American English has many sources cultural and academic. Certainly many words have lost their meaning and have taken on other and sometimes antithetical meanings. Certainly it’s not all progress and it’s not all accidental.

What does it mean in Newspeak to be called Conservative? I’m not sure the word has much to do with preserving the status quo or with a reluctance to tolerate large or rapid change or even the avoidance of risk any more. As used by our grotesquely politicized mainstream media, it seems to have more to do with extravagant hostility toward intellectualism, toward reason, toward freedom of thought, collective humanitarian pursuits and perhaps even toward ordered society.

Hence Ann Coulter, a woman who in more conservative times would have been hanged, drawn, quartered and burned as a witch, can repeatedly be labeled as a conservative commentator while calling for the violent overthrow of our government and its institutions. The word simply denotes high hate content and a bias against civilization.

Speaking in Little Rock, AK yesterday, psychopathic, Bolshevik revolutionary insurgent Coulter called for the murder of Justice Stevens, one of the most intelligent minds and elegant writers on the Supreme Court. CNN calls that a “strongly conservative view.”

Coulter belongs to a political party that was willing to call “please don’t tell my wife” Subornation of Perjury and “I did not have a sexual relation with that woman” a high crime worthy of impeachment. What then would a person of normal moral character call "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brulee?” Does the word “Conservative” really attach itself to calls for murder and insurrection?

Coulter seems to believe that you can say things like this and write it off as a joke; that if you smile during a felony, it’s all right. Perhaps she’s right and perhaps if I say someone ought to feed her feet first through a manure spreader after pouring boiling nitric acid up her nose, I will be conservative too.