Despite the decisive
nature of the Trump victory, the defeat of liberalism is far from certain,
especially as it still maintains almost complete control of the news media, television
and the Web. The almost unanimous media
reaction to the Trump victory has been along the lines of ‘We wuz robbed!’
There is some fat bastard
currently advertising his forthcoming TV chat show on the death of American
democracy, or some such description. I
don’t know who he is, never heard of him.
But I suspect that he is one of these alternative liberal agitators
posing as comedians. As Ken Dodd said: ‘I
have nothing against alternative comedians as long as they don’t start telling
jokes!’
What is going on now is
analogous to the complaint of the German Army at the end of WWI that they had
been ‘stabbed in the back’, though the Germans had rather more justification
for saying it than the Clintonistas have.
And we know as well where that particular German stream of consciousness
was to lead.
The post-election reaction
is confirming of the description I’ve already given of the modern nature of liberal
democracy. It is not about votes, it’s
about the program. You can have all the
votes or super-delegates that you want, but if you don’t deliver the liberal agenda
in its entirety, then they will disallow the result, and set about doing
everything they can to pull it down.
Neo-con philosophy lies
at the root of modern American liberal thinking. But it is not really a new conservatism, but
rather a new liberalism; not so much neo-con as neo-liberal. What
it resembles most is a modern inversion of the ‘muscular Christianity’ that helped
supply the sinews of British imperialism in the late-nineteenth century.
No more liberal wishy-washiness
here: if things don’t go as you want, then the answer is to put the boot in.
