You’ve seen the TV commercial. A mother comes into her son’s bedroom where she is confronted with the smell of his malodorous athletic socks. She can barely tolerate the stink, but he is oblivious to it. Having been surrounded by the stench for who knows how long, he has become “nose blind.”
This vignette rings true for me because I often encounter a parallel when I do the family cooking. One of my favorite dishes is salmon croquettes. Let us just say that when these are frying on the stove they are pungent. Yet in the midst of this, I scarcely notice. The aroma, however, overpowers my wife when she arrives from elsewhere.
Today, there is a stench spreading across the nation. The focal point is Washington DC, but the smell of corrupt politics has become overpowering. Conservatives are all too aware of how debased partisan practices have become. As their primary victim, they cannot miss the dishonorable nature of these performances.
Nonetheless, liberals do not notice. As the chief perpetrators of numerous disgusting acts, their malicious handiwork surrounds them. No matter how many lies they tell, no matter how indecent their behavior, not matter whom they injure, they pretend to be choirboys.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president, he has been accused of conspiring with the Russians to pervert the electoral process. No evidence of this alleged collusion has been brought forth. This does not matter. The charge is routinely trotted out as if it had been substantiated. That stinks!
We have learned that members of the FBI and Department of Justice worked behind the scenes to promote an unverified dossier that slanders Trump. Despite the ostensibly non-political nature of their jobs, the goal of these operatives was to undermine the Trump presidency. That stinks!
The phony dossier was then used to obtain permission to spy on outlying associates of the Trump team. The evident objective was to gain a political advantage. This “legal” espionage was nothing less than a high tech version of Watergate. That stinks!
Meanwhile FBI agents protected Hillary’s use of an illegal server. Despite the likelihood that classified materials fell into the hands of unfriendly nations, this danger was downplayed. Her political future mattered more that our national security. That stinks!
The mainstream media became complicit shills in these doings. Thus, over ninety percent of Trump stories have been negative. The booming economy, for instance, is barely acknowledged. Our president is instead insulted, mocked, and libeled in what he rightly labels fake news. That stinks!
The Democrats have proudly engaged in what they describe as political “resistance.” Rather than work with the current administration, their aim is to destabilize it at every turn. They would rather hurt the country than assist an enemy in any way. That stinks!
Ordinary liberals have taken to the streets, our college campuses, and the halls of congress to shout down those with whom they disagree. Rather than promote a civil dialogue or free speech, they intimidate anyone who holds an opinion they dislike. That stinks!
Most recently they resorted to character assassination. In order to maintain control over the Supreme Court, they slandered a good man. Even in the absence of corroborating evidence, they depict Brett Kanavaugh as a serial rapist. That stinks!
How can this be? Where have civility and honor gone? Don’t liberals understand that when they ignore elementary rights, such as the due process of law, they place all of us in jeopardy? Don’t they realize that when they replace democratic standards with totalitarian conduct, they also place themselves in danger?
The answer is that they don’t! The liberal dream has come crashing down around their ears. The pain of this historic collapse is evidently unbearable. Not only have liberal programs failed—so has their socialist worldview. Employing super-powerful governments to control every aspect of life has backfired. Venezuela is a case in point.
So how do they cope? Plainly liberals deny; deny; deny. They deny their failures to outsiders. They deny their political transgressions to themselves. They are totally blind to their unprecedentedly corrupt behavior. When they sanctimoniously accuse others of the offenses in which they indulge, they actually believe their words.
This scurrilous comportment is not about to change. In fact, it may get worse. Nose blind people are unaware of the stench they create. They therefore feel entirely justified in wrecking havoc. So far as they are concerned, it is anyone with the temerity to call them out who stinks.
Melvyn L. Fein, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Kennesaw State University
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