Let's Take a Look at the 'Alt Left'

Joseph Farah
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:00:00 -0700
Opinion

Before Hillary Clinton offered up her latest paranoid rant on the "Alt Right," I received a number of calls from the media inquiring about my thoughts on the subject.

I consider myself a pretty informed person when it comes to politics, but, before this flurry of press calls, I had honestly never heard the term. Maybe I wasn't invited to the secret club.

I discouraged these interviews by explaining ahead of time that I was unfamiliar with the label and uncomfortable and suspicious of contrived political classifications generally.
Updated: Wed Aug 31, 2016

Before Hillary Clinton offered up her latest paranoid rant on the "Alt Right," I received a number of calls from the media inquiring about my thoughts on the subject.

I consider myself a pretty informed person when it comes to politics, but, before this flurry of press calls, I had honestly never heard the term. Maybe I wasn't invited to the secret club.

I discouraged these interviews by explaining ahead of time that I was unfamiliar with the label and uncomfortable and suspicious of contrived political classifications generally.

It didn't help. It became apparent to me the Big Media were determined to set the stage for Hillary's latest conspiracy theory about a realignment of the right that incorporated nationalism and racism.

The Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis figured prominently into this new, emerging coalition, according to the reporters who called me.

"How many Nazis and Klan members do you know?" I asked. "I don't know any. I don't know any racists. If I did, I wouldn't invite them to my daughter's wedding. I wouldn't attend their weddings or accept money from them as Hillary Clinton did. I would have blown the dog whistle on them years ago, decades ago, rather than wait until these people I considered racist were running for president against me. Do you see why this allegation has no credibility coming from Hillary Clinton?"

Silence on the other end of the phone.

I know Clinton and the Democrats love to smear people with the racism tag. I've had it thrown at me. The only evidence anyone ever introduced into the allegation against me was my disdain of Barack Obama.

But that hardly makes me a racist. It makes me someone who loves freedom rather than slavery to government. It makes me someone who loves the Constitution and hates lawlessness. It makes me someone who reveres America and doesn't want to see it "fundamentally transformed." It makes me someone who loves humility and rejects prideful arrogance.

However, that's not really what I want to talk about today.

I don't think the so-called "Alt Right" as I have seen it defined in recent days is much of a factor in our world today. But I do believe I can make the case that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party are using this term to create a kind of alternate reality to disguise what they are doing.

Have you ever noticed how some people accuse others of doing what they themselves do?

That's what's going on here.

Whatever the "Alt Right" might be, it's politically irrelevant compared with what we'll call the "Alt Left."

What is the "Alt Left"?

It's a movement of phony self-righteousness and "compassion" that it uses to gain power. It will do anything and say anything to achieve its goal of hammerlock control not only of government, but every significant cultural institution - from schools, universities and the press to churches, foundations, Hollywood and unions.

It has created a self-funding mechanism that includes a club of guilt-ridden billionaires who insulate themselves from attack by donating to the "Alt Left" causes. It also uses shakedown tactics to intimidate cowering corporations into doing its political and cultural bidding.