The Conceit of the Left

We have two today, out of a plethora of stories to highlight.  But I have other things to do today, so you will have to be satisfied with just two of them.  The first is a piece at the American Thinker by Abraham H. Miller entitled An Angry Old White Guy in AOC Plus Three. Miller is experiencing a bit of what I experience: exhaustion. One gets tired of having another project onto one motives that are not part of one's thinking.

While the hysteria of the current aspiring revolutionaries, or “power grabbers,” to use Ilhan Omar’s own words, is not yet at the stage where anyone is being carted off to the guillotine or sent to the gulag, the new face of the Democratic Party is devouring its parents. Its children are yet to come.

The instrument of execution is the accusation of racism. Joe Biden is a racist because decades ago he refused to endorse coerced busing to end de facto segregation, a mechanism that was so flawed that it enhanced rather than ended segregation.

Joe Biden speaks in malapropisms, used his country for his family’s enrichment, and has been wrong about nearly every foreign policy he embraced, but he is not a racist.

Nancy Pelosi, for daring to call out the raucous Hamas chorus in her party, is called a racist. Nancy Pelosi is many unsavory things, but she is not a racist.

So too, all of us who support the president are now not just called deplorables but also white nationalists, supremacists, or racists.

If that is the case, I want to know where to sign up because the only way to make this now trivialized and overworked accusation to go away is to embrace it. If they shout, witch! …then we should all stand up and say we are witches.

A note to Ms. Cortez and company.  We didn't think much of Marx and Engles though they were Northern Europeans. We didn't like Lennin of Stalin either, and they were as white as the driven snow. And even though Hitler claimed to be a pure Ayrian, whatever that is, we didn't like him either. What do these people have in common? Think hard... Why, yes, its Socialism!

And, oh, by the way, our problems with Obama were the same as our problem with the people mentioned above.  We didn't dislike Obama, because most of us didn't know him personally.  But his policies were socialistic and totalitarian.  That is our only beef with him.  Socialism!

I have often ponder the same thing that Trump said aloud the other day, namely, if you don't love this country, if you feel that your parents made a mistake coming here, why don't you leave?  I have gotten unsatisfactory responses from most of those I have asked the question.  The best one is that they stay here because their "family" is here.  But if they really feel we are so bad, why not do what their own forebears did and leave?

And, Trump is right, if you don’t love this country, you shouldn’t be here. If you think your refugee camp in Kenya made you feel more whole, I am sure there is someone in Kenya who will gladly change places with you. If you feel more Palestinian when you are in the Congress, maybe you should be experiencing that feeling in Ramallah. If you can pretend to weep over an empty parking lot at the border but not over the more than 10,000 mostly black and Latino children that will need a shelter tonight in New York City, then you should run for the Mexican legislature. If you think socialism is the answer to the nation’s problems, I am sure Raul Castro has need of you in Cuba.

As for most of us, we don’t give a damn about the color of your skin, but the content of your character leaves much to be desired. And if you keep telling us what racists we are, just maybe we’ll take you seriously and become the thing you want us to be.

The truth is that these people are malcontents because they are largely talentless and of average intelligence, who are never going to be the world shakers they aspire to be. They are legends in their own minds, but in the real world each is just another Bozo on the bus.

The second item today comes from Kurt Schichter who writes about The Nightmare of an America Ruled By AOC And Her Socialist Pals over at Townhall.com

Go read the whole article. In fact, go read BOTH articles.  Schlichter is a great story teller, and what he tells in People's Republic is a story of half the country turned into a Venezuela. One of the things that comes out loud and clear is the resentment one of the lead characters feels for the people he feels do not respect him enough for his great intellect and that he alone has the inside scoop while his fellows are mere cud chewers. This, of course, is the conceit of all totalitarians and totalitarian wannabes.  This is the conceit of AOC and her gang, of their sugar daddy Saikat Chakrabarti,  It was Marx's, Lennin's, Stalin's, and Hitler's conceit.  We must vote all such people down and never let them get close to power again.