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Leftist Thinking Could Be Fatal For U.S.
June 19, 2008 | Tagged danger to America, gun control, Leftist thinking, War on Terror | Leave a Comment
It’s not going to shock or surprise many people when I opine that the “Progressive” Left relies on emotional ploys in their crusade to lead the ignorant masses out of the mire of their own stupidity and into the light of the perfect, totally managed socialist utopia. What is really scary, is that at least some of the “intellectuals” on the Left may actually believe what they are saying.
It’s all well and good (for them) to preach what David Horowitz aptly calls “the romance of the underdog” as they urge income redistribution to eternally support drug addicts, unwed mothers of multiple children, convicted felons, and illegal aliens. Universal health care sounds appealing, even though rationing and waiting lists force persons in Canada and the U.K. with serious medical conditions to come to the U.S. for treatment. Leftists seem to believe in the demonic power of guns to provoke violence, in spite of numerous scientific studies to the contrary. They will gleefully ban 99 percent of ”evil” guns in futile attempts to keep one percent of firearms out of the hands of criminals, who by definition, do not give the south end of a northbound rat for laws and order.
Progressives, at least at some levels of the movement, seem to suffer from what I believe is the delusion that everyone on the planet thinks and reacts the same way that they do to emotional stimuli. A case in point is a recent Denver Post article describing an anti-John McCain ad sponsored by Moveon.org and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a union with left wing connections. (Anti-McCain ad plays up involving new generation in Iraq,” Denver Post, Denver Newspaper Agency, Denver, CO, 06-17-08, page 4A.)
An actress playing a mother with an infant addresses McCain’s comments about the need for a long term American commitment in Iraq. She tells “him” in the ad that he can’t “have” the child, presumably for cannon fodder. Ignoring for a moment the fact that McCain was referring to a commitment similar to the ones pursued by the U.S. in Germany, Japan, and Korea (countries where American will and ideals prevailed over totalitarian ideologies), the ad pulls at the heartstrings of U.S. mothers, fearful of losing their offspring in presumably unjust, unending, futile wars.
While I am not advocating the Spartan mothers’ injunctions to their sons (”Come back bearing this shield, or come back on it.”), no country has ever survived when its sons (and daughters) refused to risk their lives in its defense. The Romans lost the battle of Cannae, in part, because their upper class cavalry would not close with their Carthaginian opponents, probably due to fear of injury or death.
Somewhere in the world of radical Islam, there is another mother. She is extolling to her sons the virtues of martyrdom and preparing them for eternal glory as suicide bombers. Their deaths fighting “The great Satan” will bring honor to the family, as well as to the bombers, themselves. Remember that Saddam Hussein paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers who killed Israeli and American citizens.
In the great clash of civilizations that has been going on for over a thousand years, who is more likely to triumph, holders of the ideology that says, “No! My son is more important than the survival of the Western World,” or the proponents of a radical Islamic ideology that says, “Go forth and die gloriously that your religion might live.”
If the leaders of the Left do not believe their own rhetoric, then they are guilty of leading many innocent people down dangerous paths. A disarmed society is at the mercy of criminal thugs and tyrants. A civilization that will not defend itself is doomed.
What could be even more dangerous than deception and hypocrisy by the leadership of the far Left, is the possibility that they actually believe the things they say. If they sweep the elections this year, the consequences could be fatal for the American experiment in government.
Def Mech