You Got That Right, Homey

LGF links to a lovely Dennnis Prager column appropriately titled, "The Left is Worth Nothing" and it's a good one. When Robert Downey Jr. meets George W. Bush and tells him, "I'm between parties right now" because "the Democratic Party couldn't find its ass with both hands" as he related on Conan O'Brien last night (or maybe one of the others, I can't tell talk shows apart any more) then you know it's over for the Left. Well, that's not really how you know it, but it's still true. It's painful to watch Dean and Kerry thrashing weakly as the water runs out of their tank, and they did it to themselves. The election in Iraq, and what happens after, are going to change the world permanently, and already have to some degree. Those who stood in the way of that progress will be remembered for what they are now that nobody in particular controls the information flow. It won't matter who writes the history books this time. Thank God.

Some Pragerosity:

Since I was an adolescent, I have been preoccupied with evil: specifically, why people engage in it and why other people refuse to acknowledge its existence. As I have gotten older, I often find the latter group more infuriating. Somehow, as much as I don't want to, I can understand why a Muslim raised in a world permeated with hate-filled lies about America and Israel, and taught from childhood that God loves death, will blow himself up and joyfully maim and murder children. As evil as the Muslim terrorist is, given the Islamic world in which he was raised, he has some excuse.

But the non-Muslims who fail to acknowledge and confront the evil of Muslim terror and the evil of those monsters who cut innocent people's throats and murder those trying to make a democracy -- these people are truly worth nothing. Unlike the Muslims raised in a religious totalitarian society, they have no excuse. And in my lifetime, these people have overwhelmingly congregated on the political Left.

Since the 1960s, with few exceptions, on the greatest questions of good and evil, the Left has either been neutral toward or actively supported evil. The Left could not identify communism as evil; has been neutral toward or actually supported the anti-democratic pro-terrorist Palestinians against the liberal democracy called Israel; and has found it impossible to support the war for democracy and against an Arab/Muslim enemy in Iraq as evil as any fascist the Left ever claimed to hate.

I agree wholeheartedly. Sean Penn and Tim Robbins aren't bad people, per se, they just don't have a reliable moral compass. I can forgive a suicide bomber for being insulated to the point of not being aware that his ideology is worthless, but given access to all the information they could want, Penn and Robbins have chosen the wrong side, again. And for them, it's not a lesser of two evils thing, it's a "we're not perfect and until we are I'm against us, for what others think of us is more important than what we actually do" thing. And that's worthless.