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Why should the left be any different in the Middle East than in the rest of the world? Those on the far left spectrum from National Socialist to Soviet Socialist murdered 18 million people under Hitler’s Nazi German government, more than 20 million under Stalin’s soviet socialist government, and more than 30 million under Mao’s communist government. Systematic genocide against Jews, Kurds, and Christians in sand dune country fits right in with the rest of the left’s works. I imagine Obama is proud of his leftist socialist brothers under the “Arab Spring”.
It’s also interesting that the same Left that is so rabid about “women’s rights” in the West (although they usually seem to be talking about abortion) never utter a word about the rights, or lack of rights, women have under Islamist rule.
To the Left, though, the most heinous sin is HIPOCRACY. Holding out and aspiring to some ideal, then falling short, is the signature characteristic of stupidity and/or evil. They voted for “Hope and Change”, but Obama and the Dems failed to deliver the peace love and understanding.
Pinning them with the scarlet H and focusing on that ad nauseum is a political tactic that has real punch IMHO. We need to start preaching to THEIR choir.
Here's the heart of the matter, and it's something we need to keep at the forefront of our debate with liberals.
The left/liberal/progressives extoll democracy as the highest ideal of government. Conservatives point out that democracy is tyranny unless built on freedom.
Freedom comprises two concrete principles: the right to own property, and the rights of the minority.
Unless these are codified into written law first, democracy is mob rule, and merely a prelude to absolute tyranny.
The idea here is that the Left supports Arabs because they are socialist. This is actually incidental. Islamists, whatever they might be, cannot reasonably be called socialists.
The actual reason is that Israel is increasingly viewed as a symbol of western civilization and particularly of its main defender, the USA.
Leftists hate and despise the USA and western civ. Their support for Islamists is primarily an example of “the enemy of my enemy.”
In fact, IMO for most leftists it’s not even the leftism that is important to them. It’s the opposition of leftism to western civ.
IOW, they do not hate western civ and America because these entities are insufficiently leftist. Rather, their support for leftism grows from the root of their hatred for western civ.
I think the heart of the matter is that powerful Muslims generously support the Left in this country financially. They also support them through the MSM of which they have significant ownership.
Why do they support the Left? They certainly don’t share the same ideology. But they do share a COMMON ENEMY: the United States of America, its majority Christian citizenry, and its Constitution.
The Left myopically returns its support for Muslim causes. In retrospect, that is why I think Bill Clinton put us in on the wrong side of the Bosnia/Serb war - on the Muslim side. The leftist MSM certainly did their part in painting Slobodan Milosevic as a bloodthirsty murderer - but probably no worse than the Muslims whose side we took. I further think that with the Bosnian-Serb war, Bill Clinton set us on the path of foreign policy in the region that is now (and really while he was in office) showing to be a disaster for the US
If the Muslim world succeeds in taking the US down, the Muslim crocodile will eat the leftists last.
A great article! I just found it at Front Page Magazine and was going to post it. Good thing I did a search first!