Right Wing Political Correctness

The concept of political correctness was a conservative response against the dominance of liberal ideas in the culture of the 1960's and early 1970's.  It made fun of the intrusion of liberalism into everyday life. In this article Paul Krugman explains how the new political correctness reflects conservative dominance of our culture. However, there is an important difference between the two versions of political correctness.  The conservative version has money and power behind it.  The liberal version was a more spontaneous reaction to Vietnam, and other events, that exposed some of the realities of American power that took the cloak off of the Wizard Of Oz that operated behind the scene within the power elite.

It has taken around 40 years of deliberate planning, and execution, for the right wing to replace the counterculture of the 1960's with its version of political correctness.  Essentially, they have put the curtain back around the Wizard, that operates behind the scene, to restore the operation of a more appropriate culture that better serves their purposes.  If an accurate history of the last 40 years in America were written, it would be the history of the right wing reaction to the dangerous counterculture that briefly emerged in the late 1960's.  It was a crisis that enlisted them in a common cause, and their reaction was well executed.  It is important to understand, however, that reality is omnipresent.  Disguises were made to be destroyed by the unwelcome intrusion of reality.