Return with us now to those glorious days of yesteryear, when honest reporters were just starting to turn into “journalists,” and CBS’s 60 Minutes was the top-rated program in the nation for a reason: it played fair.
Exhibit A is this remarkable piece that Morley Safer did in the mid-late 1980s about “The Loony Left” in Britain — a chilling and prescient look at how the hard left was busily injecting political divisiveness into the minds of young children all over the country, hollowing out British culture and institutions in the name of “anti-racism,” and turning Britain into the sad, dilapidated, disunited and likely doomed Orwellian society it has become today. Perhaps there won’t, after all, “always be an England.”
It’s a classic example of leftist tactics, and in retrospect turned out to be a last warning of the fate that was soon about to overtake a country that had been waging a low-level civil war between Fabian Socialists and free-market capitalists since the days of H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw — a losing battle only briefly won by Margaret Thatcher, and now likely lost for at least another generation as Shaw’s famous “Fabian Window” is at last out and proud:
As Safer says in his introduction:
You may wonder why we’ve turned Big Ben into a cuckoo-clock. Well, the name of this story is “The Loony Left,” a group holding power in Britain’s inner cities whose policies many believe are aimed at destabilizing both the party and the nation.
Watch the program, then ask yourself: can it happen here? Or is it already happening?
Here’s part one:
And here’s part two: