Why the left is always wrong: Craige McMillan details why socialists, Democrats confused

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, November 15, 2001 | Craige McMillan

[JohnHuang2]

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Why the left is always wrong

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© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

Enough of living laws
That Adam and Eve have left.
Hustle old history's horse
Left! Left! Left!
– Sergei Mayakovsky

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
– Proverbs 14:12

The political left is like a television weatherman who never seems to get it right. Day after day, they shout their pronouncements in our ear, and demand that we take note of their fancy maps, which they broadcast for all the nation to see. Day after day we alter the way we dress and act, taking into account their pronouncements. And day after day, they are wrong.

The results of their political jet streams, creating pockets of highs and lows across the nation can be amusing, confusing or downright dangerous. It depends on how much we listen to what they say. Here are some good reasons to take their forecasts with a grain of salt.

Feeling over fact. The left is ruled by their emotions. While empathy is commendable in our relationships with others, and sympathy is often warranted, it is a disastrous recipe for national policy. Our humanness – the very thing that separates us from the beasts of the field – is our ability to think and reason. Dominated by oftentimes conflicting emotions, the left disdains thought because it undermines their position on almost every imaginable issue. An example? Even after 9-11, pro-immigration groups are arguing for more porous national borders, and recommend against further scrutiny for applicants coming from Arab and Muslim countries. The reason? It might make those subjected to such scrutiny "feel" bad. Whether the rest of us "feel" alive or dead doesn't seem to enter into their equation.

Historical ignorance. History is the fossilized record of human experience, engraved in the words and deeds of the past. Through history, we learn how great nations became that way, and how insignificant nations faded from view. We learn what good government looks like, and what bad government feels like. We learn how businesses, charities and institutions have succeeded and failed. And we learn how individuals overcame what seemed insurmountable handicaps to rise above the crowd in both their accomplishments and their gifts to humanity.

Each generation typically reexamines history for itself. Yet only the leftist academic concubines of the ivory tower start with the premise that history is wicked because it doesn't support their views – and then fashion their "research" to destroy its relevance for the rest of us. One example: gun control. Michael Bellesiles' "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" relies on research by the author into early American firearms ownership that has been shown to be a complete fraud. Even his ivory-tower neighbors have now asked that he support his "evidence" or retract his "findings." One suspects this is less because he was wrong and more because he got caught.

Cause and effect. Because the left is dominated by volatile emotions and disdains the past, they are unable to connect the dots of cause and effect that permeate society. Leftists live in the world of perpetual present, their actions informed by immediate emotions and chemically-induced mood swings. Ignorant of the past and oblivious to the future, they have no reason to examine the chain of events known as cause and effect. Thus their decisions and policies fluctuate wildly, zigging and zagging across the national landscape as they chase feel-good solutions to momentary disruptions in the ether. As good-hearted as they appear, the well-being of future generations never appears on their radar screens.

These are three powerful reasons why the left is almost always wrong. You probably know of others. But there is one final reason: They ignore the one true God, who has revealed himself and his son, Jesus Christ, and explained the workings of his Holy Spirit through the historical record contained in the Bible. Since God is by definition all knowing, all powerful and all present, we cannot understand our past, our present or our future without understanding what He has said about us and Himself. Western civilization is based upon this record, contained in the Bible. No society has ever transcended its religious foundations. The events of 9-11 have given each of us a vision of a society based on another holy book. We should give serious thought to what that means for our future.

[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by Faraday

[JohnHuang2]

heads up

[GeronL]

heckle the left!!

[Mr. Mulliner]

BTTT

[Libertarian_4_eva]

He had me untill I got to. They ignore the one true God, who has revealed himself and his son, Jesus Christ,. Now he is another christian fundie foaming at the mouth.

[Nam Vet]

Another great one Sir John....thanks.

Nam Vet

[Nam Vet]

With all due respect....your DISrespect is all wet. I used to think I had a lot of libertarian in me until I read a lot of the libertarians replies on various threads. If I'm wrong about the libertarian view, please educate me.

Nma Vet

[Snow Bunny]

This is excellent !!!!!!! Thank you soooo much for ping. WOW this is good !!

[Ditter]

This is a good one!

[GeronL]

so he was right until he mentioned God and then he was a fanatic?? Sounds like your the fanatic.

[Cobra64]

John, you hit a heart string with this post. Thank you, Sir!

Regards, Mark Davis

[Cobra64]

Another great one Sir John....thanks.

Yes, John is a gentleman who loves his country. My guess is that he's over 40 years old and probably served his country in the military.

I'm a 51 year old guy who just found FR a few weeks ago. I love this site. I'm still trying to figure out what "bbwwwaaaaaa bwaaaa bwaaa" means though. I have two grown kids who used to do this when they were still in diapers.

[GeronL]

you agreed with 99.9% of what he wrote but he's a christian fundementalist, foaming at the mouth, because he mentioned God.

that means your a libertarian fundementalist, you even attack and demean people who agree with you 99% of the time!

[Colosis]

My leftie past makes me cringe when I think about it. Where once I was blind, now I can see.

[stands2reason]

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAH!!!!!!! is evil Movie-monster laughter. Just don't ask about the cheese. And if a moose bites your sister, that's your own problem.

[ppaul]

Bookmarked. Thanks.

BUMP!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Jay Nordlinger: Who Cares About Cuba? "Human rights cannot exist without God."

[Excerpt] Robert Conquest points out that Western defenders of the Soviet Union were "always more anti-American than they were pro-Soviet"; so it is in the case of Cuba. Jeane Kirkpatrick finds it astonishing that "some of our elites are actually proud of their indifference to Cuba's victims, or China's, or Burma's. It is in bad taste, intellectually, to give much thought to these victims." And "frankly, there is something perverse about the hostility to anti-Communists." We saw in the Elian affair, she says, that Cubans in the United States are close to a pariah community…….

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Valladares has a ready answer to this business of "good things," given with patience and weariness: Say these things have been accomplished (which is laughable, but leave that aside). Could they not have been accomplished without torturing people? Without imprisoning them? Without denying them all rights? Is material well-being incompatible with human freedom? Besides which, few people go out of their way to stress the material achievements of other dictators; autobahns and so forth. The likes of Jose Serrano do not pause to acknowledge Chile's economic explosion. And then there is the matter of Castro's sheer longevity as dictator. Says Valladares, "I was talking to an American, A Democrat, the other day. I said to him, 'How would you like it if Richard Nixon got to be president for over forty years?' The man almost shrieked in horror." …………

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The oppositionists and their supports are extraordinarily, even disturbingly, grateful for any sincere attention they receive. They are accustomed to being snubbed or defamed. Another exile writes, "Prisoners cling to newspaper articles about human rights in Cuba as their only hope against being abandoned and forgotten. The sense of helplessness, that no one is listening, that no one cares, is what kills their souls. I've known many such people, including within my own family."

Back in the Reagan years, Jeane Kirkpatrick became a heroine in the Soviet Union for the simple act of naming names on the floor of the U.N.: naming the names of prisoners, citing their cases, inquiring after their fates. Later, in Moscow, she met Andrei Sakharov, who exclaimed, "Kirkpatski, Kirkpatski! I have so wanted to meet you and thank you in person. Your name is known in all the Gulag." And why was that? Because she had named those names, giving men and women in the cells a measure of hope. Kirkpatrick says now, "This much I have learned: It is very, very important to say the names, to speak them. It's important to go on taking account as one becomes aware of the prisoners and the torture they undergo. It's terribly important to talk about it, write about it, go on TV about it." A tyrannical regime depends on silence, darkness. "One of their goals is to make their opponents vanish. They want not only to imprison them, they want no one to have heard of them, no one to know who or where they are. So to just that extent, it's tremendously important that we pay attention." [End Excerpt]

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez , Rene Montes de Oca Martija, Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon, Vladimiro Roca, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, and Maritza Lugo Fernandez Bernardo Arevalo Padron, there are thousands of others and it is important to say their names.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez , Rene Montes de Oca Martija, Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon, Vladimiro Roca, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, and Maritza Lugo Fernandez, Bernardo Arevalo Padron there are thousands of others and it is important to say their names.

The Left doesn't care about the lives left in their wake.

[Republic]

John-GREAT ARTICLE! Good synopsis of leftist thinking. And I loved the last part-WOW!

[Valin]

A question I've been asking lately is, after all the (countless) time these jerks have been wrong why do people still listen to them, other than the comedy value they are just a waste of prefectly good dna.
Seriously I been trying to think of when they've been right about anything in the last..oh say 40 yrs?