The Anger Of The Left

by Thomas Sowell - May 15th, 2007 - Townhall.com

. . . for many on the left, indignation is not a sometime thing. It is a way of life.

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How often have you seen conservatives or libertarians take to the streets, shouting angry slogans? How often have conservative students on campus shouted down a visiting speaker or rioted to prevent the visitor from speaking at all?

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It seems to be the threat to their egos that they hate. And nothing is more of a threat to their desire to run other people's lives than the free market and its defenders.

There are many on the left, including the extreme left which controls the democratic party, who are militant socialists. This is obvious to anyone who actively follows the public dialog that flows from our national press. The main stream media (MSM) comes almost exclusively from the socialists in our nation. As a result the labeling by the press that is so common for those on the right is nearly invisible for public officials who are on the left. As fellow socialists the press never sees labels as a big deal unless it is labels of those they oppose since they are actually a way of insulting their opponents. That may be the reason that many Americans who think that there are more important things than politics are unaware of the socialist bias of both the press and the democratic party.

It is that lack of awareness by average Americans not active in politics that is unbalancing the political dialog in our nation. Our recent elections found a huge number of moderates who bought into the democrat party campaign strategy of simply maligning Republicans without proposing any solutions to our problems. Now, with the democrats in the majority, their true intention is becoming more and more obvious. They seek to declare the war on Islamofascism lost and bring our troops home. Why is there this drive to end the war by the extreme left?

To me the reason is simple. Islamofascism is in fact a socialist movement in its execution even if it is religious in its underpinnings. Most socialists, like the socialists in the democrat party and the press, are more comfortable with the Islamofascists than they are with anyone who espouses the concept of free enterprise. The socialists are embarrassed by the failure of every socialist country and see America as the cause of that failure. There is no logic that supports the socialist's view of the world and so the view of the left has become angry and frustrated.

Trying to shut up those who believe in free enterprise is the natural consequence. The reality of socialism's failure is the largest insult to their ego and anger is unavoidable.