The Chasm Between Us

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Every once and a while an issue emerges that exposes in stark relief the great chasm separating Right from Left – where the differences revealed are so profound that the two sides look at each other across this great divide and see not a political opponent but a strange and unfamiliar form of life whose habits of thought and moral calculus are so dissimilar as to make the gulf that separates them seem unbridgeable.

The on again-off again visit by President Ahmadinejad is such an issue. Rarely has the reaction to an event been so dichotomous. Perhaps not since the Terri Schiavo matter has the lines of understanding and perception been drawn so sharply that bewilderment mixed with outrage have been the dominant themes rather than the usual snark and spite that is hurled back and forth on a daily basis.

But for many on the Left, a suspension of moral certitude takes place when dealing with America’s enemies. In their haste to see “both sides” in a conflict, many on the Left forget (or deliberately choose to ignore) the nature of the Iranian regime, and why the spread of that ideology must be opposed and stopped if possible. In fact, the Left is so busy being even-handed that it becomes impossible to take a moral stand at all.

This then is the real chasm: the Right has moral certainty on this issue; the Left, a moral relativeness.

The outrage felt by many on the Right regarding Ahmadinejad’s now scuttled visit to Ground Zero and the Left’s mockery and bewilderment of it open the chasm between us just a little bit wider. I have no idea how to bridge the difference between us. I hope it won’t take some cataclysmic event to make it happen.

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