In all the liberal frou-frouing and tut-tutting over Ben Domenech (the Redstate founder briefly hired by the Washington Post, let go when it turned out he didn’t have an original thought in his head) one important number was generally ignored.
24.
This is not just the name of a Fox TV show. It is Domenech’s age. This means he was born in 1981. Af the end of 1981. Reagan had already been shot. His earliest memories are probably of Iran-Contra. Everything else is history to him.
Another point not remarked upon often-enough is that he was home schooled. His parents were determined that nothing disagreeable — meaning nothing outside their own heads — would enter him. He was force-fed propaganda 24/7, and only allowed to read and watch those things which supported those assumptions.
His brief adventure at William & Mary was just that, brief. He did not graduate. Instead, he went right into the bubble of the Bush-osphere, in which up is not up until we say so, in which down is not down until we say so. Obedience to the will of the leader is all that matters in the Bush-osphere, and anyone who dares disagree — no matter his past conservative credentials — becomes apostate.
Is this story beginning to sound at all familiar?
It’s Tomorrow the World, a crude piece of anti-Nazi propaganda written by Ring Lardner Jr. and starring Frederic March, produced in 1943.
Our boy Ben is Eric Bruckner, a Hitler Youth who finds himself in America, surrounded by a loving American family, and who resists de-programming until the end of the picture.
Frankly I pity the poor little wretch. He is obviously the victim of a lifetime of parental abuse. The fault here lies with them, not him. If he is to be any use to the world, he has to be deprogrammed, then start over.
To think this happened in the USA is the horror. There are millions of these little weasels out there, in our universities, in our workplaces, in the professions and in our nation’s Capitol. They are poison, every single one of them. They are not America, they are its opposite, Amerika.
They are, in some ways, the very reflection of excess on the right that people like Abbie Hoffman became on the left, after the 1960s. And that’s the only hope I can find in them. They are excess personified, they are incompatible with America or American values, and if America as a nation is to continue, they’re going to be tossed like yesterday’s diapers.
Ben Domenech is a victim.
