Obama Zombies: How the Obama Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera

left's moral equivocating. The concepts of "right" and "wrong" are a blur to them. Political correctness--the fear of offending liberal orthodoxy--already handcuffs us from speaking our mind on basic Christian principles, including marriage and sexuality--a la the blond bombshell, Miss California. But the PC stranglehold also has deleterious effects on our understanding of how real the terrorist threat is.
    In two national surveys conducted by Barna Research Group, young people were asked if they believe that there are "moral absolutes that are unchanging or whether moral truth is relative to the circumstances." Seventy-five percent of those ages 18-35 answered the latter. 31 This notion of "if it feels good do it" no doubt gut-checks us from saying that Rachel Maddow looks like a dude, but that's far less serious than moral relativism allowing us to define Islamic terrorism, the spade of which Obama will not call as such. Instead, liberals demur each time conservatives mention the constant specter of terrorism.
    During George W. Bush's last State of the Union address, for instance, the College Democrats over at Brigham Young Universitydecided to mock the president by taking a shot of alcohol every time he used the words
terror, enemy
, and
evil
. 32
    Grandmaster liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann typified the idea that conservatives hype terrorism when he said this on the air at the 2008 Republican National Convention:

. . . 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. "9/11 TM" has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without-- literally--any visible means of support. "9/11 TM" has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation's history. 33

    Similarly, on student reactions to 9/11, Professor Patricia Somers of the University of Texas found that students she interviewed worried that retaliation for the terrorist attacks would result in the death of more innocent Americans. Moreover, her subjects feared that members of the American Muslim community would be wrongly targeted. One student complained that "patriotism blinds people to what's really going on." Others said the "cheering for America as if it were a football team" sickened them. 34 The patriotic mood of the country at the time, according to Somers's respondents, was "hypocritical and false," while others were alarmed that Americans got caught up in the moment of "waving a flag." Instead, in the words of a
USA Today
story on Somers's work, the post-9/11 campus environment settled for "blood drives, community service, and group hugging." 35
    According to liberal authors Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, young people are more inclined to "group unity" than to unilateral action. That influence, they argue, was cemented into the hearts of millions of Millennials from their childhood days of watching
Barney
! "They all solved their problems by the end of the half hour, and they all accept one another," 36 the duo concluded. That's right, folks. We're the Barney Generation. And only to liberal ears would that be cause for celebration. Good grief. I'd hope to think that the big purple dinosaur is not why younger Americans are more blinded about Islamic terrorism. The terror organization Hamas, by the way, has its own cartoonish character. But "love" and "unity" are not themes of the show. Nope: It's a Bugs Bunny look-alike who declares, "I will eat the Jews!" 37 Not a joke.
    But of course American college students have been bamboozled. Just look at the classes and textbooks we're subjected to. Peace studies, offered on hundreds of campuses, is one big political think tank for leftist foreign policy. For example, a widely used text in such courses is a book called
Peace and Conflict Studies
, written by Professor David Barash of the University of Washington