The Left Is As Mad As Madame DeFarge…

So the left made themselves hysterical over the Tea Parties. One more party they won’t be invited to join. Running for Miss America is out, running for Governor is out – if you follow the candidates – and pretty soon anybody who is left of center won’t have a friend who doesnt sound just like them. Thats because they are just plain angry these days. All left over from a long political campaign and nothing to gripe about except nothing to gripe about.

US News and World Report Online asked “Why is the left so angry?” I ask, why is the Left so MAD? When talking about the Tea Parties, they throw in references to anti-Muslim rhetoric, swastikas, and rising gun sales as well.  I’ve never seen so much evidence that something “insubstantial” and “hooey” was clearly very substantial and a big problem.

So, those who have a stake in bigger government, higher taxes and higher spending, felt threatened.

The sad fact is, those people were expressing the classic impulse in this society. Less. That was the impulse that drove the founders. Conservation. Conserving impulses. Conserving resources. Conserving freedom. Today, there isn’t a cause a BIG GOVERNMENT person cant find that they dont want MORE of YOUR resources FOR. And the secret is, they are Democrats AND Republicans.

I am A CONSERVATIONIST. No more Conservative. No more Left and Right. This is about POWER. And on the Left and the RIght, the people who seek power are the people who want government to do more and more and more. And the people losing power are the people who want government to do less.

Now, its clear from the talk that the Madam DeFarges of the modern era want to see their enemies not just beaten, but destroyed and humiliated. They have no trouble rendering “verdict first, trial later”. They want to see them walked from the gallows to the guillotine. I am going to write about this very specifically in my next column but my short answer is: BRING IT ON.

The Madam DeFarges always forget they end up eating their own. One should not forget Mr Obama’s answer when asked a hypothetical about the use of strenuous interrogation techniques. The man who has made it cool to act like America ain’t so cool has put those techniques on the OK list, under certain circumstances. Once the Madam DeFarges are done with each other they pluck out their eyes with their knitting needles to keep from seeing what they dont want to see. And they are never, never, the last ones standing.

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