{"id":821,"date":"2013-04-19T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=821"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:47:06","slug":"killing-john-wayne-why-the-left-wanted-for-the-boston-bomber-to-be-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2013\/04\/killing-john-wayne-why-the-left-wanted-for-the-boston-bomber-to-be-white.html","title":{"rendered":"Killing John Wayne: Why the Left Wanted for the Boston Bomber to be White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged culprits behind the Boston Marathon bombing have been found.\u00a0 Yet all along, leftist have wanted for nothing other than for it to be revealed that <i>white men <\/i>are responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Only the self-delusional and the deceptive, the ignoramus and the liar, will deny that over the course of the last five decades, our politically correct <i>zeitgeist <\/i>has demonized white men while idealizing every other group. <i>\u00a0<\/i>The left has been remarkably successful at commandeering the culture with <i>The Script: <\/i>an anti-white, anti-Christian, and anti-male narrative.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Script, the universe, much like it is depicted in, say, the <i>Star Wars <\/i>mythos, is a rather simple place.\u00a0 Like the fictional universe of <i>Star Wars,<\/i> the fictional universe of the leftist\u2019s imaginings is defined by a perpetual contest between the forces of good and the forces of evil.\u00a0 Unlike that of <i>Star Wars, <\/i>though, the epic battle at the heart of the leftist\u2019s fantasy world is essentially racial in character: White Christian (heterosexual) men constitute the evil Empire from which the rebel alliance of non-whites, non-Christians, women, and homosexuals seek emancipation.<\/p>\n<p>The latest script writer is Salon.com writer David Sirota.\u00a0 His article, \u201cLet\u2019s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber is a White American,\u201d is instructive for several reasons.\u00a0 First, Sirota expresses as loudly and clearly as anyone the left\u2019s wish that the culprits behind the Boston bombing are white.\u00a0 Secondly, trading in such stock leftist ideas as \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d Sirota supplies us with insight into The Script.\u00a0 Finally, in bringing The Script to bear upon this one episode, Sirota\u2019s piece discloses a truth that far too many on the right still refuse to acknowledge: virtually <i>every<\/i> episode in American political life is determined by The Script.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, every political issue is determined by the left\u2019s obsession to effectively eradicate every last vestige of the culture invented by whites generally, and white men in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Far from unveiling some idiosyncratic wish on his part, Barack Obama represented his fellow travelers on the left when he pledged to \u201cfundamentally transform\u201d the country, for to transform anything is to <i>destroy it.\u00a0 <\/i>Take, for instance, a seed.\u00a0 A seed must first die before the new life, the plant or the crop, can spring from it.\u00a0 Or consider a caterpillar.\u00a0 A caterpillar must essentially die, must cease being a caterpillar, before it can come to life as a butterfly.\u00a0 Jesus, too, references the need for \u201cfundamental transformation\u201d when He instructs His disciples that lest they be \u201cborn again,\u201d they will not be able to partake of eternal life.<\/p>\n<p>Transformation necessarily demands the extinction of its subject.\u00a0 Hence, when Obama promised to transform America, he basically promised to perfect the old leftist program of a sort of <i>cultural <\/i>or symbolic genocide.<\/p>\n<p>More accurately, the culture upon which Obama and the left set their sights, the universe that is center stage in The Script, is what we may call <i>John Wayne\u2019s World. <\/i>Indeed, The Script itself may as well be called, <i>Kill the Duke.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>From the leftist\u2019s vantage point, the traditional or historical face of America is basically that of John Wayne\u2019s\u2014and the Duke signifies everything that is wrong in the world.\u00a0 A particularly masculine white Christian man, the persona that Wayne brilliantly succeeded in crafting epitomized the rugged, but law-revering, individualism that leftists detest.\u00a0 \u201cGod, Guns, and Guts made America Free,\u201d may be the saying plastered on the memorabilia of many an American patriot, but the Duke is its incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>Whether battling the Japanese in one of his World War II films, American Indians in one of John Ford\u2019s Western classics, or dragging Maureen O\u2019Hara miles across Ireland before doing battle with her bully of a brother, Wayne was unapologetically, even pathologically, <i>un-<\/i>politically correct.\u00a0 He resolutely defied The Script.\u00a0 Moreover, he did so without dropping a sweat.<\/p>\n<p>When leftists look back on America, it is John Wayne\u2019s America\u2014Wayne\u2019s World\u2014that they see.\u00a0 And while they have made awesome strides in relegating this America to the dustbin of history, whenever The Script is resisted or thwarted, it is due, as far as they are concerned, to the ghost of the Duke rising again.<\/p>\n<p>From immigration to \u201cgay marriage\u201d; abortion to capital punishment; Obamacare to allowing open homosexuals in the military and women in combat; \u201cgun-control\u201d to \u201caffirmative action,\u201d there is scarcely a conceivable issue over which they fight that the left doesn\u2019t regard as a battle in the war to kill the Duke.\u00a0 It is crucial that we grasp this.<\/p>\n<p>It is also crucial that we realize that this is why the left wants to find a new white villain responsible for the Boston Marathon 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