STOP CRYING WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. A few entertainers and pundits call out elements of the Liberal Establishment and you'd think the Schutzbund was rounding up persons of conscience.

First Big Business, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, the Religious Right, the Wall Street Journal, Mitch McConnell, and Karl Rove came for ACORN, and the Democrats did not speak out -- because they were not ACORN.

Never mind that it still takes something to beat even a bad set of policies, and a band of entertainers able to agree only that President Obama has some dubious advisors is not the same as a coherent plan for the restructuring of government. Never mind that ACORN has its roots in the welfare-rights movements of the late 1960s, and the latest set of child-prostitution videos reinforce a picture of an organization that enables vote fraud and mau-maus banks into lending to people with neither substance nor creditworthiness.

Call the roll of the rest of the Liberal Establishment, and all its identity-politics hangers on.

Then they came for the National Education Association, and the Democrats did not speak out -- because they were not the National Education Association.

Then they came for the U.S. Student Association, and the Democrats did not speak out -- because they were not the U.S. Student Association.

Then they came for the American Association of University Professors, and the Democrats did not speak out -- because they were not the American Association of University Professors.

Never mind that these organizations are complicit in the common schools and higher education breaching the social contract that once existed between them and the public. Never mind that these organizations render young people unemployable and call it inclusive education. It's easier to conjure up the totalitarians at work. Come off it.