Parenthood and the Left, or, Getting Personal

Folks, one day you may have grand kids. Put ‘em on your knee and tell ‘em about this most bizarre of American political experiences ever: Yep, I was there sonny; I saw it in 2010 - the attempted hijacking, the attempted theft of a major share of our economy by a group of far-left zealots, collectivists all in their blackest of hearts, moving zombie-like through the political landscape, satisfied, we knew, only when their thirst for blood and their craving for flesh had reduced those of us who were free to dried husks, merely dust in the wind. But we rose up I tell you, torch and ax in hand; we took out their hearts, threw them on Liberty’s fire, saved our country......

Whoa! Ok, let’s see. Seventy-three per cent (73%) of Americans told CNN (not FOX but CNN) that they don’t want BO’s plan. Fine. No surprise there. We understand that one. However, it’s not about health except as a vehicle; that is why this result is irrelevant to far-left operatives. It was never about care except to some naive partisans, never about Americans, except as dupes.

Let's pick up a book. Ah, F.A. Hayek’s The Road To Serfdom! Good. Turning randomly, we arrive at page 87, speaking of a planned society, of the sort BO has in mind: "There can be no doubt that planning...involves deliberate discrimination between particular needs of different people, and allowing one man to do what another must be prevented from doing....Where the precise effects of gov’t policy on particular people are known, where the gov’t aims directly at such particular effects, it cannot help knowing these effects, and therefore it cannot be impartial. It must of necessity take sides, impose its valuations upon people and, instead of assisting them in the advancement of their own ends choose the ends for them."

BO and others understand this, they know the implications; most of their following, that is, most Democrats, apparently do not. They simlply have not thought it through. The far left operates because there are enough folk out there looking for the easy way out. They don't understand perhaps that the Road To Serfdom is paved with good intentions. These folk are not only lazy, they are irresponsible. They have forsaken their own children, in the inactive sense as poor role models, through their lack of understanding, their lack of scholarship, in their lemming-like behavior. Or, they have forsaken their own children in the active sense by teaching them that only gov’t planning of their lives leads to happiness. Either way, they have failed miserably in their responsibility.


Robert Craven