Run to the Left
1st May 2015
Richard Fernandez points out some inconvenient truth.
The Baltimore mayor was unconcerned about property destruction because she was convinced that “someone” would rebuild it. The same “someone” who will pay for the deficit and ransoms to al-Qaeda, as well as the bribes to Iran. The identical “someone” that will cough up the reparations to the inmates of Guantanamo. The “someone” who will man the ships to fight the Iranian boghammers, should it come to that.
“Someone” is the source of other people’s money. He is like the tooth fairy who makes the wreckage of looted streets and houses go away. In fact four pastors in the revival tent of the Left advocate sending prayers known as tax collection letters to “someone” — who is not from earth, not from MSNBC anyway – to pay for all their wishes as they don’t pay any themselves.
“Someone” is the Leftist equivalent of God; responsible for all the good and bad in the world, something to fear as much as need. This mysterious deity, when loosed from control, is the cause of the failure of all their schemes, he makes the crops go bad, ruined Detroit, hexed foreign policy, inspired the riots in Baltimore and caused the drought in California.
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Lenin called imperialism the final stage of capitalism, but he always assumed that Communism would be the highest phase of socialism. That’s where he was wrong. What Lenin didn’t realize was that prayerful piety is the ultimate stage of Leftism. It’s when you are in a line praying there is still toilet paper, or bread or a job left for you at the end; it is when you are on your knees before al-Qaeda begging them to reduce the ransom from $2 to $1.85 million because that’s all your house, car, jewelry and life savings are worth. It is when your arms are raised in rapturous hope at the coming of Obama, Warren, Sanders — or Hillary. That’s the last vision of heaven you will see as you rush to one side of the boat.
Chesterton was right. When people stopped believing in God they didn’t believe in nothing, they started believing in anything. ”Lock them in the hold! Lock them in the hold!!”