Have they learned a thing?

Evening sets in; there’s time for reflection out in West Marin. Dinner talk swings from the Pride Parade, to explaining away Biden’s latest gaff, finally to Obama. In their own little hearts can these types see or come to acknowledge a lack of regard for the responsibility that goes with American citizenship; can they acknowledge their lack of zeal to self inform; can they acknowledge their dismissal of American and world history, dismissal even of the message of the Founders themselves as little more than an irritant? For how else could they have voted for Obama?

That is, can they admit they made a major mistake - not publically naturally but perhaps at dinner time - and if they can admit that, can they learn? This is the key to the rest of us. Because if they have not learned we are destined to repeat the cycle. This is the anchor which retards progress in the free world. We ratchet up a little bit at a time, sure; major strides however are ruled out because of the general amnesia of the left.

Many of those who voted for BO are “disappointed.” (There are plenty of bumpers out there minus the H & Change sticker, just a stripe of glue remaining.) But “disappointed” in Obama is disappointment misdirected. It was a failure of scholarship that led to this disaster.

As we have highlighted in detail in past blogs - BO is acting perfectly in character. He’s genuine. He wore a sandwich poster in earlier times; because our lefty friends failed to read it, they are “disappointed.”

Are today’s left unique to world history? Naturally not. A group of faculty lounge types (whom Stalin fondly called his “useful idiots”) fell hook, line and sinker for the utopia of communism. Bounce ahead a few years and witness another group made of the same stuff, taken in by another cult figure this time bent not on a communist but a statist agenda. It’s all the same and always and everywhere goes to the same place - control. Lacking an acquaintance with Hayek, von Misses, Reagan and others most lefties simply cannot believe that Hitler started just like Obama. There was a recession; folks were desperate; they fairly elected this guy; he used health care as his first hook, then gradually took control of the rest with the aid of a compliant media. Genocide is not the point; control is the point and it starts with a lot of people who are too naive or stupid to know better.

Robert Craven