[BykrBayb]

That explanation would certainly fit the people I had in mind. I'll accept that answer. Yeah, I do think that explains everything. Thank you!

[T'wit]

Here's a classic case of what I was talking about. Not a month ago, the Left wailed and raged for a week at the execution of a cruel mass murderer -- Saddam Hussein. We all saw it and heard it. The whole Left, worldwide, sided with a man who killed thousands with poison gas, who had political enemies machine-gunned and buried in mass graves, who threw living men into garbage compactors and raped their women.

Wiser counsel, expressed several ways, is: "You are known by the company you keep." Lie down with the dogs, wake up smelling like dogs." "Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character" (1 Corinthians 15:33).

The Left may or may not realize it, but Saddam Hussein is now the dead chicken tied around their neck. They sought the association themselves.

[T'wit]

Here is another explanation, quoted verbatim:

>> "Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element: The struggle against the demon, against the servants of the Antichrist. Everywhere and at all times demons have been lurking in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak; when of his own volition he leaves his place in the order of Creation as founded for him by God in freedom; when he yields to the force of evil, separates himself from the powers of a higher order; and after voluntarily taking the first step, he is driven on to the next and the next at a furiously accelerating rate. Everywhere and at all times of greatest trial men have appeared, prophets and saints who cherished their freedom, who preached the One God and who His help brought the people to a reversal of their downward course. Man is free, to be sure, but without the true God he is defenseless against the principle of evil. He is a like rudderless ship, at the mercy of the storm, an infant without his mother, a cloud dissolving into thin air." -- White Rose Leaflet #4.