They Once Were Blind But Still Can't See

Dennis Prager has an interesting column today about the new verboten word - the "T-word." Yup, the T-word, meaning "thugs" like those folks rioting in the streets of Baltimore last week. I've always viewed the term as an equal opportunity noun and have applied it to despicable sociopaths of all colors. But just when I think the Left has run out of new and creative ways to be loony, they come up with a new off-the-wall form of opprobrium that gives you whiplash when you go, "Say what??!!" 

Prager dissects the "why" the Left does this and his analysis is worth reading:

"One reason is that the left does not divide the world between traditional notions of good and evil. Rather, it divides the world between white and black, rich and poor, and powerful and weak. One therefore sides with the non-white, the poor and the weak.

A second reason is that the left rarely fights evil (it fights those who fight evil). It fights such things as inequality, fossil fuels and an alleged "rape culture" on American campuses. But it doesn't fight real evil (like rioters).

A third reason is that the day even a third of America's blacks come to believe that their problems are largely a product of poor cultural values, they will have become conservative and the left will have begun to lose its most important demographic group."

His #1 and #3 points are true enough. The Left is a prisoner of its own ideology and therefore can't see reality (#1), which trait is reinforced by the fact that it's politically inexpedient to do so (#3) - sort of ignorance is bliss for several reasons. It's #2 that really interests me, though, as time and time again the Left has demonstrated that it cannot recognize evil and does not fight it, but perversely fights against those who do. 

The most recent illustration of this trait is the Islamic jihadists. The Left is so fixated on its bizarre ideas of a totally politicized world that it elevates and defends the jihadis in its fight against the "real" enemy, conservatives, e.g. - the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Never mind that if and when the fight is over the jihadis will gleefully slit the Left's throats too as infidels that Allah has no use for - no, the Left never sees that coming which is why Lenin referred to them as "useful idiots." They run interference and are camouflage for the true monsters until the monsters completely seize power and then the useful idiots are washed away in the inevitable bloodbath that follows, surprised that hell and not heaven has arrived on earth: think Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. What an irony that they are now even pimping for fascists so deep is their delusional hatred of the "real" enemy. Dangerous people the Left - to themselves and others.

townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/05/05/why-the-left-wont-call-rioters-thugs-n1994385