Seeds of Intellectual Destruction

J. R. Dunn at American Thinker has an excellent article about the Anti-American Left and their influence on society. (Hat tip to SisterToldjah).

It's always amazed me how quickly the American left managed to twist the 9/11 attacks into a club with which to beat their own country.

Dunn gets to the root of the problem: Marxists like C. Wright Mills and Tom Hayden who used their perverse philosophies to attack the USA's efforts to contain totalitarianism. And he shows how well pervasive their thoughts became:

By the mid-70s it was the currency, having replaced the earlier consensus view of the United States as a unique nation standing aloof from the sleazy operations of older states while willing to lend a hand to emergent or established democracies. The thesis of the United States as predator, as an international outlaw state whose every action was suspect, had become the operating worldview of the educated American public.

And even though the ideals of freedom and democracy eventually prevailed in the cold war, Dunn says that the perverse ideology he calls "hegemonism" stayed alive:

But no ideological construct dies before its time. Hegemonism was kept alive by people like Noam Chomsky in his endless series of books and pamphlets, Howard Zinn, whose "People's History of the United States" is the standard classroom history, and Oliver Stone's paranoid cinematic fantasies. It remained a central concept of the entertainment world and the media, was encysted within the Democratic Party, and acted as the motivating force of the anarcho-syndicalist anti-globalism movement.

And now it has returned to us in full force, in the persons of Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, most of the Democrat party, most of academia, the "mainstream" media, and the entertainment industry, seriously believe that our country is a rogue state run by a dictator who is intent on promoting evil throughout the world.