[VR-21]

Thanks. What’s maddening to me about this is that while next to nothing is presented by the MSM about the ravages and horrors of communism (and it’s pretty much been that way since that evil ideology came about), there is no end to movies and documentaries about the Nazi’s. The History Channel and other venues run and re-run this stuff continuously, so one would think that the patterns of behavior exhibited by the modern American left would turn on a few light bulbs. Don’t even get me started about the parallels of the way the left wants to regiment and indoctrinate young people with the Cultural Revolution. How blind and obtuse can a society be? Well, I guess history answers that question too.

[andy58-in-nh]

I would not expect to see the MSM report honestly about communism for the same reason that Academia fails to do so: they still believe it can work. Remember that the American Left is essentially Utopian and judges all its projects only on the basis of their promises. The flip side of that equation, of course, is that capitalists and conservatives are judged only by their flaws and their worst examples, and naturally found wanting.

I wrote this on another thread, but I think it bears repeating here: every graduating class of the Harvard and Yale Law schools brims with bright, preternaturally ambitious people who are convinced of their personal entitlement to rush headlong into the pursuit of righting all of the world's wrongs.

Both the depth of their will and the shallowness of their tolerance can be attested to by anyone who has ever gotten in their way.