Every once in a great while I’ll visit a leftwing site like the
Huffington Post just to remind myself about the kind of mentality we’re up
against. I am especially curious about
the Left’s perceptions of current events, and indeed what they believe current
events even to be. After a few minutes
reading it is inevitably such a depressing exercise that I turn away in utter
disgust, reassured in my long-held belief that we are doomed as a nation.
The article linked to below, entitled “How America Became a Third World Country,” was featured as a front-page blog post on Huffpo the day I
visited. It gives us some interesting insight
not only about what passes for intellectual discussion among the Left but also
what the Left’s strategy is for redistributing blame as a century of socialist
policy heads towards its inevitable conclusion:
The piece begins by describing a scene of horrific decay
awaiting our country ten years from now.
The street lights will be off, the air will be brown and dirty, bridges
will be collapsing left and right, the national parks will be closed. The U.S. is going to be a real mess,
apparently. And what is the reason for our downward spiral
into third-world status? Is it because
we’ve become a nation of socialists, where more and more of the trillions in
tax revenues we collect every year are diverted to people who could and should be supporting
themselves? Is it because so much of the
money that’s been used to support this experiment into socialism has been
borrowed, and now our creditors want their money back? No. The
reason we become a third-world state in this dark fantasy is because of the
Sequester. Yes, you read that
correctly. That tiny cut in the rate of
our massive overspending – not the
overspending itself - is going to lead us straight into Hell.
It’s hard to know whether the two ladies who co-authored
this essay are as mentally challenged as they sound or if this is really just a
clever, preemptive strategy cooked up by the Left to blame the sequester for the
disaster they know is coming. Stupid or
dishonest? That is always the question
when it comes to the Left. The entire essay is such an homage to absurdity that to
critique it point by point, as I originally planned, would be like trying to edit
a fifth-grader’s book report into a college thesis. When people look at a graph of federal
spending and refer to it as a “manufactured argument” for “austerity fever,” or
they label sequester as the end of the world but are strangely nonchalant about
Obama’s role in it or his vow to veto any attempt by congress that would let
him re-direct the cuts where they would cause the least pain, it’s impossible
to take them seriously. So I’ll skip to the bottom line.
I grew up thinking, as many conservatives do, that liberals
are merely stupid people who lack common sense.
But the more I watched and learned about liberalism over the years, the
more I came to believe that their perfect record for being on the wrong side of
everything pointed to something worse
- a disease of the mind. Liberalism, in
a nutshell (pun intended) is an adult brain forever stuck on a child’s way of
thinking, with the same dangerously underdeveloped sense of conscience that
children often have. Visiting Huffpo
the other day it finally sunk in with me that it all goes together. That is to say stupidity and the disease of
liberalism go hand in hand. The disease
emanates from the desperate, childlike need liberals have to perpetually
gratify their own egos, but you can’t be a liberal and not be stupid unless you
don’t believe in a word you’re saying, in which case you’re simply a
fraud. Children, and therefore liberals,
are stupid in the same sense that animals are “dumb.” Their mental capacities are limited by their
immaturity and their ignorance. That’s
the first thing I learned on my visit to the Huffington Post.
The second thing I learned is about the scheme mentioned
above – the plan to hold onto power through the coming turmoil by rewriting
history along with the laws of economics.
In The World According to
Democrats, it is not the culture of entitlement they created, the
over-spending or the printing of monopoly money that leads to economic
crisis. It’s any attempt, however small,
to put the brakes on the party. And given
the liberal mentality, you can see how they arrived at that conclusion. Hey, everything was fine in Greece until the
mean old Germans imposed austerity on them, then all Hell broke loose, right? Don’t even think about asking a liberal what
led to the need for austerity.
There is no reasoning with people who believe in a lie
because they want to believe it. That’s another thing I learned at the
Huffington Post. Where that leaves us, I’ll
let you decide.
˜ CW
