[rlmorel]

Don’t misunderstand me, Leftists think plenty far ahead, but only in their own swim lane. They can think and plan for the 2030 election and how they would cheat to win it.

That isn’t a problem for them.

What they have a problem with is thinking far ahead outside their swim lane, as in the ramifications of the actions they take which won’t be evident tomorrow.

They will be evident when someone pounds on their door and drags them away in the middle of the night as they scream “Why are you doing this? I’m on your side! I helped put you in power!”

When I said they cannot think ahead, that is what I meant.

[poconopundit]

rlmorel, I like that swimming lane analogy. And dragging them away in the middle of night recalls the famous lines from Gulag Archipelago:

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!  We didn’t love freedom enough.  Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself."

We need to thank out Canadian brothers for their courage the last couple weeks. They understand what Solzhenitsyn said.

sunkenciv, loved the tweat from the President of Brazil!