{"id":2442626,"date":"2019-04-06T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=303658"},"modified":"2019-04-06T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T03:00:00","slug":"glenn-k-beaton-barbarians-are-well-past-the-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/glenn-k-beaton-barbarians-are-well-past-the-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn K. Beaton: Barbarians are well past the gate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And it\u2019s probably too late to push them back out. If you disagree, answer me these questions:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s up with TV commentators like Rachel Maddow? For two years, she relished the impending impeachment of the president and built her TV ratings high as an Aspen ski gondola full of spring-breakers.<\/p>\n

When the investigator\u2019s report finally debunked her impeachment fantasy, she fought back tears.<\/p>\n

Why? I\u2019m old enough to remember when the determination that a president committed no crimes would be seen as a good thing, not something to cry about.<\/p>\n

But that was before cable TV news. I mean \u201cnews.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some more questions for you. What happened to our once-great universities as centers of learning? In the name of tolerance, thugs now beat up people who dare to offer a different viewpoint.<\/p>\n

How can the government prohibit people from selling chicken in a public place on the basis that the government doesn\u2019t like their religious beliefs? What happened to the First Amendment?<\/p>\n

Why did politicians in New York State enact legislation permitting abortions up to the moment of birth even though 79% of New Yorkers think that\u2019s wrong?<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m still not done. In fact, I\u2019m just gettin\u2019 warmed up.<\/p>\n

Denver voters will vote this spring whether to allow overnight sleeping and camping in all public places including parks and sidewalks, most of which have no toilets. Why do people in America\u2019s once-great cities think the way to help vagrants is to encourage their vagrancy?<\/p>\n

In the name of wokeness, will Aspen, too, allow camping on the sidewalks?<\/p>\n

Are there really multiple and conflicting versions of the truth?<\/p>\n

How can a woke local newspaper columnist urge us to vote for a woman over a man in the recent Aspen mayoral race because a woman brings \u201ca certain calming presence to the issues of the day that only a woman can\u201d? (Rachel Maddow is apparently the exception that proves his rule.)<\/p>\n

So in the name of politically correct wokeness, is it now acceptable to opine that certain preferred genders are good for elected office and others are not? What next, will that columnist tell us to vote for individuals who are members of particular races or ethnic groups because they bring a certain trait that only their race or ethnic group can bring?<\/p>\n

Why do so many young people confuse recreation with happiness?<\/p>\n

And why can\u2019t businesses figure out whether people are in the country legally before hiring them?<\/p>\n

Why do so many people \u2014 not including geneticists, notably \u2014 say that there\u2019s no such thing as race while simultaneously insisting on favoring certain races in hiring and college admissions?<\/p>\n

Now that the people of Aspen have poured a gazillion dollars into buses, why don\u2019t they ride them?<\/p>\n

Why do a significant number of Americans favor abolishing the American border?<\/p>\n

Why do politicians these days promise not what people think is good for the nation as a whole, but what people think is good for themselves personally? In other words, why is \u201cfree stuff\u201d such an effective vote-getter? Doesn\u2019t anyone care about the nation \u2014 I mean in a positive way?<\/p>\n

Why do people drive monster pickup trucks?<\/p>\n

How is it racist to believe racial minorities can succeed without special favors, and non-racist to believe they can\u2019t?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s up with racial attack hoaxes? Does the demand for racism in this country so exceed the supply that we\u2019re forced to stage some? And what\u2019s with the hoaxers getting off scot free?<\/p>\n

How did real justice morph into social justice, a catch-all phrase for judging individuals not on the content of their character, but on the basis of the group to which they are pigeonholed?<\/p>\n

Why were we fed a steady diet of Russian collusion for two years when in fact the only Russian collusion was by the very people alleging it?<\/p>\n

Why do seemingly decent people transform into Attila the Hun on social media and in the comments section to a newspaper column? (Now, go ahead and prove my point.)<\/p>\n

The late-stage Romans watched from their smoldering ruins as the greatest civilization the world had ever seen was looted and destroyed by barbarians who comprehended nothing of the place except its wealth.<\/p>\n

I know how those Romans felt. Facilis descensus Averni.<\/p>\n

Someday, there may be a re-Renaissance and a re-Enlightenment. But I fear there will first be another long Dark Age.<\/p>\n

Correspond and subscribe at theAspenbeat@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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