Senator John Kerry Speaks for Herbert Marcuse

"I have to tell you, I say this to you politely, the media in America has a bigger responsibility than it's exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody [any Tea Party supporter] asserts it."

     -- Senator John Kerry on MSNBC, August 5, 2011

Video at: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/08/05/john_kerry_media_shouldnt_show_tea_party_views

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NOTE: To its credit, the Boston Herald slammed Kerry today in an editorial because of his snotty intolerance of free speech.

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Kerry is merely a perfect puppet of the late philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979):
　

"Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc"

– http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm
　

I use this quote and link, then I discuss it at length in my Quiddity blog post 137 at:

　

http://coyotequiddity.blogspot.com/2011/01/liberals-essential-beliefs-new-left-136.html

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Daniel Flynn, author of Why the Left Hates America, and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas, interviewed by Chris Banescu (attorney, university professor, and public speaker who manages the conservative site www.OrthodoxNet.com) on the site: http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15282. [found Oct. 4, 2004 on google news, dated Oct. 6, 2004] 　

Banescu:  Which three intellectuals in your book do you think will be the hardest and take the longest to debunk?
Flynn: A lie is easier to counteract than an entire system that embraces dishonesty as an integral part of its program. Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss spawned intellectual movements that incorporate dishonesty as an endorsed method of discourse.

Herbert Marcuse, the guru of the New Left of the 1960s, waged war on language by renaming intolerance as tolerance [full text of 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance"], violence as nonviolence, and dictatorship as democracy. Marcuse’s Newspeak led to the Left rationalizing censorship, acts of violence by radicals, and support of totalitarians like Castro or the Palestinian terrorists—all while claiming to advocate tolerance, non-violence, and democracy.

http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/booksabout/haters/haters.htm
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What Kerry said was merely a bald statement of the underlying civil religion of the modern left, a belief system that tolerates intellectual dishonesty and cannot withstand logical inquiry. It remains in place by faith (which is belief without proof). The quiddity blog lists the tenets of this civil religion at post 138:

http://coyotequiddity.blogspot.com/2011/01/liberals-tenets-of-liberal-civil.html

Liberalism is losing not because the tenets are logically indefensible, but simply because gold is over $1,600 an ounce, the government’s credit rating is going down and the unemployment is stubbornly high.

POST SCRIPT: Modern liberalism is failing in America today for a tangential reason that barely has to do with the flaws of its theology. It insists on leadership that is administratively incompetent, those who can’t budget, those who doesn’t understand money or credit ratings. It constantly flirts with chaos. It’s a brutal kind of incompetence, tolerating needless wars and accepting the horror of an unstable and devaluing currency, ultimately the worst thing that a government can to do unto the poor, disabled and elderly.