The Silver Lining of the Left in Power

Dennis Prager wrote an interesting article for Front Page Magazine this morning.

Now Americans see the left’s policies for what they are:
1. The left wants America to abandon its defining commitment to individualism and replace it with a European-style nanny, or welfare, state.
At most Americans’ core is an abiding belief that we are supposed to take care of ourselves, our families and our neighbors, and not rely on the state to do so.
2. The left is naive about evil. Most Americans deemed Communism evil; the left ridiculed President Ronald Reagan for calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and often undermined the fight against the Communist world. So, too, the left is naive about Islamic terror and undermines the fight against it.
The smoking gun was the nearly universal denial by the left that his Islamic beliefs had anything to do with Maj. Nidal Hasan’s mass murder of fellow servicemen at Fort Hood. One of many examples was this reaction to the shootings by Evan Thomas, Editor at Large at Newsweek: “I think he’s probably just a nut case. But with that label (Muslim) attached to him, it will get the right wing going…”
3. The left is more interested in redistributing wealth than in creating it. This should have been as obvious to Americans as the brightness of the sun. Finally, Americans are coming to realize that the left’s goal is now, as it always has been, equality, not prosperity.
4. The left is far more interested in power than the right is. This, too, should have been self-evident, but finally, people are realizing that those who are preoccupied with creating an ever-expanding state are obviously far more interested in amassing power than those who want a smaller state.
5. The left is preoccupied with America being loved, and in pursuit of that end, compromises some of America’s core values. Examples abound here, too. To cite a few: the Obama administration’s neglect of those in Iran risking their lives for freedom in that tyranny; the administration’s refusal to meet with the Dalai Lama when the Tibetan leader visited Washington, lest the president annoy China’s dictators; the American government siding with Hugo Chavez against the Honduran government, which had legally removed a Chavez clone from the Honduran presidency; and the president’s obsequious apologies for America wherever he goes.

There were a couple of really good comments after the article. fporretto said:

First, the Left is not being "given credit" in an important sense: Despite all the evidence available, we aren't willing to infer its true motives. We continue to postulate that the Left is well-meaning but misguided. This is emphatically not the case.

Second, many leftist initiatives of the past year have a common theme: irreversibility. Mark Steyn has written on this subject, with particular attention to the irreversibility of nationalized health care. An irreversibly larger State is a larger bastion for statists.

Third, the weakening of America's defenses, both on the national (armed services, intelligence, etc.) and individual (gun rights) levels, has as its all too obvious aim the creation of a more fearful citizenry -- because fearful people are more easily subjugated and ruled.

jackbelias said:

American youth are the engine of the left. The democratic party knows full well that anarcho communist policies will forever be supported by youth looking to SMASH IT ALL UP. They wish to be in charge rather than start on the bottom as previous generations did.

Our gun rights and our military are in the way of their democratic "fun society". The military respects good order and guards the ideals of the true state, the constitutional republic. Gun owners can defend themselves from mobs of radicals seeking "social justice", this mob of course thinks the individual should have no means to repel them. I certainly hope most of you have a means of defense as I see the left making more and more bold moves toward their anarchistic "fun society" of entitlement, freedom from laws, and mob rule.Many are seeing the hell coming our way, now a box of bullets that used to sell for 15.00 sells for 60.00 after a long wait period on backorder. Handloaders are now discovering that it takes an act of god to find overpriced primers. Popular firearms are flying off the shelves for as much as 4 times what they costed 2 years ago. Yes America something is going down.