LEFT TURN JUST NOT RIGHT

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 6/6/08 | Tim Blair

[Dawnsblood]

THE history of left-wing politics is a history of unintended - and invariably negative - outcomes.

Glorious workers’ revolutions lead to tyranny. Welfare causes misery. Government-funded tertiary education ends up subsidising the same proportion of private school and state school students as previously attended universities under full fees. Public broadcasting evolves into elite programming funded by people who never watch or listen to it. Decades of state film funding gives us films nobody pays to see.

I could go on. Hey, I will:

Environmentalism

Thanks to its capture by leftists - degenerates from a positive save-the-critters movement into a freaky death cult. Multicultural tolerance now extends to tolerating intolerant monocultures. Give the Left a shot at anything and they’ll wreck it; even something as elemental, safe and proven as nuclear power becomes a molten mess in the hands of commies.

Marxist Hugo Chavez is currently hammering his nation’s economy into the ground despite Venezuela being an oil-rich OPEC nation. Fertile Zimbabwe is dead beneath socialist Robert Mugabe.

Leftist governments of a centrist nature seem to do better of it, for an obvious reason. They’re less left. So governments led by the likes of Bob Hawke, Tony Blair and Bob Carr weren’t entirely catastrophic.

That’s why most folk, including conservatives, were calm at the prospect of a Kevin Rudd government. He’d made all the right conservative sounds during last year’s election campaign, including telling Melbourne’s Age: “I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist,” which probably only cost him the votes of most Melbourne Age staffers.

So how come, in celebrated leftist tradition, all of non-leftist Rudd’s moves are following standard leftist trajectories - in the opposite direction than intended? Check ‘em out:

[EagleUSA]

Good article — McCain should use it in his campaign speeches. Some great examples of what the RADICAL SOCIALIST OBAMA, coupled with a socialist-dominated Congress, would bring upon America -—

[Don Corleone]

We are always only one election cycle away from tyranny!

[Wil H]

Marxist Hugo Chavez is currently hammering his nation’s economy into the ground despite Venezuela being an oil-rich OPEC nation. Fertile Zimbabwe is dead beneath socialist Robert Mugabe

And Detroit continues to crumble into oblivion..

[LiteKeeper]

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[steelyourfaith]

 

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