For months and months, JASmius Echo Syndrome has long since surpassed Limbaugh Echo Syndrome, kind of like Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader surpassing Obi Wan-Kenobi in Episode IV, aside from that whole "turning to the Dark Side" thing. But occasionally, the conservative Jedi master still gets one off that even I didn't see coming.
In this case, it's because of the stance I took on this Confederate flag business on Saturday, which I revised and extended in my remarks on today's podcast. To wit, I adopted a small-"L" libertarian position. I do not care about the Confederate battle flag, the Stars & Bars, statues of Jefferson Davis, etc. I don't own any Confederate memorabilia; if somebody gave me some, I'd either politely turn it down or politely accept it and then either toss it in the trash or into some box and forget about it. But if my neighbor ran a Confederate flag up his flagpole, I wouldn't barrel over to his house, pound on his front door, blister him as a racist, put him in a hammerlock, drag him out into his front yard, and force him upon threat of painful physical injury to haul it down and burn it, as we are all now apparently expected to do. That flag would be his property, on his property, and he could do whatever he wanted with it. And, of course, the public scorn and ostracism that would attract would be on his head as well.
Live, let live. The same thing applies to whatever each State decides to do with its Confederate flags, monuments, or whatever else. Had I been a GOP presidential candidate and gotten sandbagged with that threatening question, that would have been my answer.
Not caring what South Carolina, et al do with their symbols of the antebellum South, I've felt no more need to comment on it. Although, predictably, the flash-mob vilification of a symbol the Left has long despised anyway in lieu of the antiquated notion of individual responsibility and in the predictable attempt to "exploit a crisis," manipulate and stampede public emotions in order to bludgeon the GOP and try to regain some degree of competitiveness in the 2016 presidential race is bullying pretty much all of Dixie into a panic of fearful appeasement.
El Rushbo is simply projecting it to its logical conclusion:
Don't think the left will stop at banning the Confederate battle flag, Rush Limbaugh warned his radio audience on Tuesday — the American flag is next.
"The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag," Limbaugh said on his syndicated radio show.
"If you take a look at the timeline of progressive events, their speed and rapidity with which the left is conducting this assault on all of these American traditions and institutions, if you don't think the American flag's in their crosshairs down the road, you had better stop and reconsider," he said....
He called the effort an attempt by the left "to segregate and isolate the entire South and to sort of Alinsky it. You know, the 'Rules for Radicals,' you seek the target, you isolate it, you attack it, humiliate it."
The flag represents to the left what it believes is the last remaining Republican electoral stronghold in terms of presidential politics: the South, he said.
"It is about destroying the South as a political force," Limbaugh said. "It's about isolating, targeting, and identifying the South as Dylann Roof. Not Charleston, South Carolina, the South. That's what the leftists' effort on the Confederate flag are."
I partially take back my concession to "the Great One" above. I did say last week that Dylann Roof was going to be made by the Democrat-Media Complex into the face of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. "Destroying the South as a political force" is part of that same dynamic, although the Left has been trying to do that for decades without a great deal of success.
But the targeting of Old Glory as the next "symbol of racism and hate" is indeed, the next logical step. Although, as I mentioned last week, I can't help thinking that that, too, would be an overplaying of the Left's hand - one that is, in reality, fairly weak, since they already jumped from the gun card to the race card and are having to fixate on irrelevant symbols and make up risible smears about America's suddenly huge and fictional "white supremacy movement", since everybody is universally condemning what Dylann Roof did.
Eventually, a runaway hyperventilator will pass out. At the rate this Confederate flag bleating is unfolding, that point may not even be a week away.
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