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Lipstick on the Pig
By Jan Ireland
September 19, 2003

Like the snake in the Garden of Eden, political correctness has its wily defenses. It isn't considered politically correct to challenge the origins or efficacy of political correctness. The term grows its own barbs, ready to prick anyone who gets too close to the truth. Close examination of the basic tenets has been made taboo. Political correctness has actually structured itself to keep you from realizing that its origins are in Marxism. It is envy of individuality, and it is nothing more than lipstick on the pig.

I'm sure the liberals and the well-meaning among us have already pounced on my opening sentence. How dare I use a Biblical reference, when there are readers who do not accept the Bible. And which Bible am I getting that from? And which translation? And what interpretation? And whose religion am I putting down by using that reference? And what about the atheists and agnostics, not to mention the secular humanists?

I'll stipulate that I don't care if you like the Biblical reference or not. I'll further stipulate that it really doesn't matter, if you like the Biblical reference or not. I'll even stipulate that you can take that Biblical reference - that certainly captured your attention - completely out of the article without offending me. Because my religion, or lack thereof, has no bearing on the fact that political correctness is connected to Marxism. I'm careful to make that clear, since the first counterattack to a criticism of political correctness, is usually that it comes from a religious right extremist, who is bigoted and exclusionary. Nothing could be further from the truth.

At its base, political correctness is simply the desire of the few to control the many.

Marx applied this desire to economic avenues, reasoning that to control the means of production, was to control the world. Capitalism, however, built America and produces great wealth. The PC crowd has been unable to unearth it, despite onerous over-regulation, escalating taxes, and prodigious attempts to redistribute income and punish high achievers through progressive taxation. For the moment, it is safe.

Pseudo-intellectuals, often in universities, declare that everything is relative, and come up with copious affirming evidence. Enclaving themselves in their ivory towers, they plot to be the best. For them to be the best, you - the many - must be the worst. You must be taught your place as the great unwashed. You must realize their superiority, so that they are no longer intimidated by your freedom. Since Freedom is a concept they do not understand, they desire to destroy it - by controlling who has access to it. If everyone is free, they are unable to compete.

That makes a country like America - founded on freedom, open to a fault - anathema to them. In their deviate minds, things must be rearranged. Their solipsism requires that they discomfit you, and language is the most apt place to start.

This is how they do it. They tell you that you cannot say 'this' or 'that' because to do so makes you incorrect.

That's a dead argument. Before the horse gets out of the gate. Before it even approaches moot, and the 'brighter' minds of the PC movement know it. If the basic premise of your argument is that everything is relative, nothing can be. How can something 'be', if everything is 'relative'? They've failed Philosophy 101 before they start, and so can only pretend what they say is true.

But if they pretend with enough alacrity, and arrogance, and fierceness - many are cowed. If they befriend unscrupulous politicians, who make the laws, and know a cash cow when it appears on the horizon - they get their mania engraved in law.

We, the baby boomers, grown up now, remember. It was the 1980s, when janitor became sanitation engineer. We chuckled then. What harm could it do, after all? It's just a few words. Are we now to be poor Winston, 1984's protagonist - doomed to remember what was said yesterday, and to know it contradicts what is said today?

Because, now look.

The Ten Commandments have been shunted from public view, at the same time Madonna open-mouth kisses young girls on stage. The Judge displaying those Ten Commandments stands to lose his job, and Madonna brings out a children's book.

The Pledge of Allegiance was declared unconstitutional because of the phrase 'under God'. Christmas Vacation turns to winter break. Muslim children must be accommodated with special times and places to pray in school, but don't let a Christian try the same thing, even silently.

Universities require that students never offend another student, and set up 'zones' where uncouth words may be uttered occasionally.

We cannot look at Middle Eastern Islamic men in airports, though the 9-11 terrorists were just such people, but Grandma and the five year old get disrobed with the full wand.

The ACLU defends the North American Man Boy Love Association pro bono, but sues if you wear a cross.

An interfaith group calls for the removal of all crosses in America, since the cross stands for bigotry, suffering and exclusion. Never mind that what it stands for built America.

Every obvious difference in 'ethnic' identities is noticed, and the full divide and conquer routine is pulled on America. If ever we show signs of forgetting that, race baiters quickly bring out another 'injustice' minorities can sue for.

The National Education Association wants our children virtually from birth, so that they can be inculcated with the 'relative' agenda. They don't want mommies to stay home. Children might be taught love and values that way.

Textbooks can't tell America's true history, because that is one of individual responsibility and fierce protection of freedom. Conservative judges can't be appointed because they won't go along with the ludicrous lawsuit lotteries, and won't reinterpret the Constitution as a 'living' malleable document.

Our means of self-protection, guaranteed by the Second Amendment, is under fierce and unrelenting attack. One world disarmed, is what the United Nations is after. Disarmed, we cannot resist a government that would take us over. Every one of us should sign up right now for an NRA pistol class.

9-11 gave us a momentary glimpse of what we were before Marxism began creeping into our society. Many of us still see that in our mind's eye every day. But some of us have started to look away.

For those who looked away, better look again. You'll see the Marxist finger. Crooked, beady, applying the lipstick to the pig.

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Jan Ireland is a former masters level counselor/teacher. She is a Guest Writer at OpinionEditorials.com, and contributes regularly to Washington Dispatch, Intellectual Conservative, Prudent Politics, and several other sites.
She can be contacted at ciscja@hotmail.com