IGNORANCE, ARROGANCE AND THE LEFT

Victor Davis Hanson - aka VDH - is brilliant today - as he ALWAYS is. But he left a little something out of his column today. Here's an excerpt of what he wrote:

In fact, what do Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, Scott Ritter, Ted Rall, and George Soros all have in common? The same thing that unites Fidel Castro, the European street, the Iranians, and North Koreans: an evocation of some aspects of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany to deprecate President Bush in connection with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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There is something profoundly immoral for a latte-sipping, upscale Westerner of the postmodern age flippantly evoking Hitler when we think of the countless souls lost to the historical record who were systematically starved and gassed in the factories of death of the Third Reich.
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The final irony? The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory. In turn, too many of the Left who used to talk about idealism and morality have so often shown themselves mean-spirited, cynical, and without faith in the spiritual power of democracy.

I think VDH nails the PURE IDIOCY and DELUSIONAL INCONGRUITY of the attacks against Bush, but he has failed to properly EMPHASIZE TWO THINGS:

(1) that ALL of the whackos who LUDICROUSLY disparage Bush with Hitlerian references (Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, Scott Ritter, Ted Rall, and George Soros, Fidel Castro, the European street, the Iranians, and North Koreans and the Move.on/Left-wing of the Democrat Party) are committed, unabashed Leftists - folks who advocate socialism to one degree or another; and (2) that Hitler was a socialist!

As VDH points out, it is ironic that the Left accuses Bush of being Hitlerian when he is anything but Hitlerian. I am pointing out that ANOTHER IRONY: the fact that they are ALL MUCH MORE HITLERIAN BECAUSE LIKE HITLER THEY'RE SOCIALISTS! And like Hitler they use THE BIG LIE. And like Hitler they are utopianists and elitists and anti-Zionists.

The Left makes these wild accusations against Bush because they have Bush Derangement Syndrome. The basis of BDS -- (Bush Derangement Syndrome, and the newly coined "Wolfowitz Derangement Syndrome" - H.T.: Roger L. Simon) -- is the Left's unwillingness to accept that their ideology has utterly failed and has been totally discredited more and more ever since 1989, (perhaps from even earlier: perhaps ever since Deng Xiaoping abandoned most of Maoist-Marxist socialism in 1979, and transformed China from a starving basketcase into an economic dynamo). The hateful delusions of the Left are an expression of their COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.

(Other examples of the Left's "CG" and "DENIALISM" include denying that Reagan had anything to do with the "Fall of the Wall" or the collapse of the USSR, and the denial that Bush has anything to do with the fact that freedom and democracy are burgeoning in the Middle East and in the former USSR satellites - when the fact is HE DOES.)

Only after the people on the Left have the courage to admit they were wrong will their delusions and misguided hate-filled attacks against Bush end. HOW DO I KNOW THIS? I was a Leftist, once. Once I saw the light - and admitted that free-markets and democracy are more effective and fair and moral, and that the best guarantor of world peace and the Free World is American military strength - I was able to see the Left for what it was: a false religion.

I recommend that all Leftists just admit the truth; they'll see the light, and I know that they'll find the experience VERY LIBERATING (pun intended!).

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