In spite of having been surrounded by the left since infancy, I've never really considered that I understood the mindset. As a young man, I espouses some left-wing ideas and programs, but only out of ignorance. As I became wiser and better informed, I put away childish things.
In my middle-age, seeing peers still supporting left-wing ideology, I was puzzled, and remained puzzled. In spite of my obvious outspokenness, I genuinely wonder if people who disagree with me know something I don't. I must admit that the thought that they might be idiots had occurred to me, but lacking proof, either way, I left the matter unresolved.
No longer.
The embarrassment and consternation among even the left-wing, over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a U.S. president who has been in office slightly less than ten months, is a clear sign that we have left the arena of reasonable doubt and entered the emperor-has-no-clothes zone.
Those who ascribe to left-wing views are morons, fools, parasites, or some combination of all three.
The entire country of Norway should be enjoined from further breeding. Oh wait! They are already reproducing below the replacement rate. Nevermind then.
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Despite President Obama's self-inflicted humiliation last week at Copenhagen, Oslo piled on more embarrasment this week. Oslo probably did this unwittingly and certainly without Obama's help. It just underscores the Nobel committee was pre-occupied with some other point for which Obama was a prop. And Obama wants us to be more like the Europeans?
Posted by Dave | October 9, 2009 4:22 PM
Posted on October 9, 2009 16:22
Agree. Agree.
Mick, I just finished George Gilder's book The Israel Test. Have you by any chance read it yet? If I remember right you're into technology, appreciate Israel and the U.S. connected against jihad, and perhaps have latent affinity from your LDS background toward Israel?
Anyway- would look forward to your comments if you've read it.
This Nobel prize flunks the Israel Test.
Posted by lynn christensen | October 10, 2009 8:59 PM
Posted on October 10, 2009 20:59
I'm not reading much of anything lately. A new business pretty much sucks up all the free time one might have. In general though, the books I have read on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have read like propaganda; both from the left and the right. I have no illusions about the conflict--there are no "good" guys in this story, but I support Israel for a very simple reason--its a democracy, and the Palestinians are a tribal confederation.
Posted by Mick Stockinger | October 19, 2009 10:43 AM
Posted on October 19, 2009 10:43