May 16, 2022
An awakening: conservatives vs. progressives
By Patricia McCarthy
George C. Leef has written a wonderful, definitive book that lays out the difference between self-identified progressives and conservatives. The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, A Political Fable for Our Time is a fictionalized narrative about a Washington Post journalist -- a progressive leftist, of course -- who is chosen to write an official biography of the first woman president, Patricia Farnsworth. The facts of this woman’s eight years in office are essentially the Obama/Biden two terms in all but name. Their destructive policies, briefly interrupted by the successful presidency of Donald Trump, are all in play again. The Supreme Court has been packed. Offending statues have been duly destroyed. Riots and protests are endemic, often staged for political purposes. Opponents of the left have been virtually silenced. The book feels like it was written in just the past few weeks, so accurate are the devasting consequences of progressive policies Americans are enduring under Biden.
Van Arsdale is at first thrilled at the opportunity to write about the woman she has long considered heroic. She has written numerous columns celebrating Farnsworth’s policies implemented to transform America without regard for the Constitution. Both women pride themselves on their successful gambits that have destroyed opponents and won elections. Farnsworth even brags about having ballots ready to submit if needed. Arsdale is selected because she is particularly skilled at constructing progressive narratives to go with any event, policy, or disaster without letting facts get in her way. She has fully embraced the dictates of gender and identity politics. She knows how to slant any story, how to obscure inconvenient facts in order to make any column suitably progressive. As a lover of classical music, she attends concerts in disguise because among her friends and colleagues’ classical music is “problematic” since most composers were white. She would have heartily supported the We See You White American Theater manifesto. Shakespeare is also “problematic.”
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