Rudy Strikes a Nerve

Achilles will fight on unperturbed, unless you poke him in the heel, and liberals are no different. You will never hear a rabbit shriek as loudly as when you speak some truth which would damage their social status. That angst, even their mere focus upon the statement, betrays their amygdala’s concern with it and the power it holds over them.

Rudy Giuliani has tripped such a switch recently with his statement that Barack Obama doesn’t love America. Anyone with a brain knows what Giuliani is talking about. Obama will pay for a cliffside beach house for Al Qaida terrorists from Guantanamo. He will import illegal kids with all sorts of diseases from all over the world and mix them with American children. He will fight for illegal immigrants, costing Americans jobs and increasing the crime rates for normal Americans. He will release Taliban terrorists with American blood on their hands, to free a traitorous deserter. He will snub our allies when their leaders die, get our own federal law enforcement officers killed, turn on our police, speak out for thugs who attack Americans, and even use Federal agencies like the IRS to harass Tea Partiers who genuinely do love America and her freedoms. The concept behind Giuliani’s statement is devastating, and the rabbits know it. After his initial assault, Giuliani should now argue using a different tack, however.

Rather than hit their amygdalae dead on, and risk inducing an immediate cognitive denial defense, (which will devolve into they-said, we-said) he should now merely say that he believes what he said, and that the rabbits should consider confronting the fact that about half the country believes what he does. Half the country believes liberals don’t really know what patriotism is. If he really wants to drive in the shiv, point out that peer reviewed research, even recognized by other liberals like John Jost, had shown that liberals have reduced levels of in-group loyalty and increased levels of open-ness to out-group interests, all of which is a fancy way of saying liberals are predisposed to disloyalty, and don’t really love their peers the way the rest of us do. Science is on Rudy’s side, and the credendialist argument is always one which drives rabbits crazy.

Deep down, every liberal knows that they are a traitor at heart. The very idea of liberal patriotism is the ultimate King-with-no-clothes argument. The rabbits know what their fellow citizen would think, if the truth were ever revealed openly. Even more, they know, given the magnitude of their perfidy, how little prodding it would take to reveal the truth, and how quickly the pendulum would swing once Americans began looking honestly at the actions of these phony traitors. Their panic at Rudy’s statement clearly reveals that. We should feed that panic, relentlessly reveal what liberals are, and most of all never, ever, back down.