- King Richard: Well, sir rascal, tell me, who are you?
- Robin Hood: I’m called Robin Hood.
- King Richard: It seems I’ve heard of you.
- Robin Hood: Nothing good, I hope.
- King Richard: Oh, now I remember. How does your loyalty to Richard set on a killer of knights, a poacher of the king’s deer and an outlaw?
- Robin Hood: Those I’ve killed died from misusing the trust that Richard left them. And the worst rogue of these is the king’s own brother.
- King Richard: Oh, then you blame Prince John.
- Robin Hood: No, I blame Richard. His task was defending his people instead of deserting them to fight in foreign lands.
- King Richard: What? You’d condemn the Holy Crusades?
- Robin Hood: I’ll condemn anything that leaves the task of holding England to outlaws like me.
- The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
Yesterday I talked about the pampered college radicals who never had to deal with responsibility in their lives and contrasted them to my father. Today I want to talk about the some of the folks responsible for them.
For many years a group of us decided the culture wars were worth fighting. We bemoaned the idea that children were no longer disciplined. We scoffed at the idea that everybody got a participation trophy, we bemoaned the culture of death and the removal of God from the public square.
And when we warned that being American was not enough to guarantee our freedoms, that people had to be taught and encouraged and educated about how and why we were the richest and most powerful country that ever existed, that if we did not do so our society would fail that the laws of cause and effect had not been repealed. What happened? We told to shut up.
We were trying to turn back the clock, we were out of step with the times, we were on the wrong side of history. I remember years ago at a Tea Party event there was a “mainline” conservative who came down on us who fought the culture war hard. We were told those fight cost votes that the GOP needed and if we just kept our mouths shut about the culture we would win. They didn’t believe that it would come to this, that the fight wasn’t worth having. They wanted us to keep still. They didn’t realize what Andrew Breitbart always noted, that politics was downstream from culture.
These folks share a good chunk of the blame for what’s happening today but that’s not the biggest irony of the situation.
The biggest irony of all of this is that the primary targets of these attacks. The Jewish students on campus, come primarily from families who embraced the culture wars, who had to problem with restricting conservatives speakers and demonizing conservatives. Who treated Tea Party rallies and the people who attended, people who left their venues cleaner than they found them as the epitome of evil. They are among the folks who enabled the left wing ideologues, who supported the redefinition of marriage, man and woman and who though both the campus, media, both news and entertainment and via large corporations gave into to the radicals in order to be considered part of the proper crowd.
And when conservatives were banned on campus or shouted down for years they at best said nothing or at worst agreed. The worst of their wrath were saved for people like, Pam Geller and Robert Spencer and Bridgette Gabriel and David Horwitz who saw what was coming and warned them of the anti-Semitism of the left. They were labeled as purveyors of “hate speech” to be shunned and banned.
Pam, Robert, Bridgette and David would have likely given anything to be wrong about what was coming but they were rejected like the Prophet Jeremiah and treated as such.
Now the whirlwind is upon those who rejected them and all that remains is to decide what they consider a worse fate:
- To be hounded, threatened and attacked by anti-Semites who want them dead OR
- Or to admit they were wrong about us and Join the side of folks they hated & vilified for years.
I honestly don’t know which choice they will take.
UPDATE: Kurt Schlichter doesn’t know that answer either but he’s not confident that they will choose wisely:
Jewish Democrat voters are going to need to make a choice, survival or the comfort of liberal illusions.


