What, Me Worry?

The Left is a religion. It looks away from the obvious sins of its leaders the way earlier generations of churchgoers sometimes averted their gaze from the misdeeds of their own.

...That doesn't mean the Left can't change. It only signifies that the shift, when it comes, will be no ordinary change of mind. It will be more akin to a Pauline conversion than a matter of fact acknowledgment of a mistake. ...Revolutions, even mild ones, eat their own. The time for liberals to realize that is early, before the train makes the thundering turn into that long, long stretch of track--the one that culminates in a ravine. --Richard Fernandez "A Sudden Realization" "Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be...he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades." --Jonathan Turley "...governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy--which is their own population."--Noam Chomsky

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Although by this point I should know better, it still surprises me that liberals so consistently fail to connect the dots between cause and effect. Liberals, who are justifiably renowned for their blithe obliviousness to "unintended consequences," are often shocked when the agendas that they superciliously promote turn around and bite them on the butt. That would all be well and good, I suppose, and perhaps worthy of a bemused chuckle or two--but, unfortunately, those of us who knew better all along end up getting bit as well. (In fairness, I should mention the radical leftists--of both the communist and fascist variety -- who have long been intentionally trying to overwhelm and destroy capitalism/Western Culture via the Cloward/Piven strategy and innumerable other ploys. Their nefarious activities muddy the waters around the issue of liberal overreach). In any event, the other day I read an article with the rather unwieldy title: "Liberal Austin Homeowners Surprised to Find They Have to Pay All the Taxes They Voted For." The article centers around the absurdity of liberals being upset about paying for public works that they were primarily responsible for voting into existence in the first place, ("What...the Tooth Fairy isn't going to pay for this?"). As I say, the whole "cause and effect" thing seems to fly right by them. I was reminded of this liberal peculiarity when I read a recent article by liberal icon Noam Chomsky, in which he (quite correctly) notes that "the constitutional lawyer in the White House [that would be Obama] seems determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties." Just so. I am a firm advocate of Henry David Thoreau's axiom "that government is best that governs least." Liberals, who believe "that government is best that governs most," should not be surprised at the tyrannical tone-deaf nature of the beast that they have built--what else did they expect? I suspect that even now most liberals remain blissfully unaware of the wretched end that awaits "we the people" if we continue feeding the voracious and insatiable hunger of a bloated government