By Charley Reese, King Features Syndicate
September 1997 – Finding your way in the Orwellian world of left-liberal-elite propaganda requires an intellectual road map. Let me sketch one out for you.
First of all, in the left-liberal-elite (LLE) world, there are amazingly enough, no liberals. There are only moderates and extremists, which are everybody else but the LLEs.
I bet you didn’t know you were an extremist. You probably think an extremist is a skinhead or a member of the Ku Klux Klan who runs around in camouflage sheets trying to rid the world of conspirators.
Well, you just don’t understand how the LLEs view the world. You are an extremist if you believe in a balanced budget amendment, that English should be the official language of the United States, that it would be a good idea to dump the National Endowment for the Arts and Porno, and the Department of Bad Education.
You are an extremist if you are a conservative Republican or Christian. You are an extremist if you are opposed to foreign aid, government imposed racial quotas, overly generous immigration laws and a welfare system that encourages and subsidizes illegitimacy.
You are an extremist if you think kids and their coaches ought to be able to pray at a football game, that it wouldn’t hurt to hang a copy of the Ten Commandments in a classroom, and that Christmas programs should include Christmas music.
You are an extremist if you believe in controlling the country’s borders, eliminating race-, sex- or ethnic-based preferences and shutting down the country’s abortion mills. You are an extremist if you want to cut taxes and repair Medicare before it goes bankrupt, which, left alone, it soon will.
If you believe that the Constitution says what it means and means what it says, including the right to keep and bear arms, then you are an extreme extremist.
That, by the way, is the only point on which I agree with the left-liberal-elites because restoring the constitutional republic would provide an extreme contrast to the unconstitutional imperial government the LLEs have created.
God knows that liberty and self-government are extremely strange ideas to these elitist characters, who have twisted our republic into a rancid mess that would be recognizable by Nero but not by George Washington.
The point of this little exercise is to impress on decent, God-fearing, law-abiding Americans who respect constitutional government that they are not in a fair fight. Their opponents are not merely mistaken, nor do they think you are merely mistaken.
They hate you. They hate your ideas. And they will employ every trick in the totalitarian’s propaganda handbook to make sure you and your ideas never get a fair hearing or a fair reporting.
For example, the left-wing Interfaith Alliance, whose real job is to trash Christian conservatives, makes a big deal in its propaganda about keeping church and politics separate. Of course, the seed money to start the Interfaith Alliance came from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to the Capital Research Center.
Left-wing churches played a big part in the anti-war movement of the 1960s, in opposing the anti-Communists in Nicaragua and El Salvador and in fighting against efforts to reform immigration laws. And you didn’t see any editorials or television commentaries bemoaning that churches were getting involved in secular political matters.
Don’t forget that in the world of the LLEs, only conservative Christians are forbidden to exercise their rights as citizens. It’s mixing church and state for conservative Christians to get involved in pubic issues; it’s providing moral leadership when the left-liberal churches get involved.
When traditional Americans are called extremist, you know the elite is in far left field. 
