Anyone familiar with history knows the hard Left have terrorist hearts. Before his death in 2014, R.J. Rummel calculated the Democide – Deaths caused by Leftist governments – at over 174 million in the 20th century. Conservatives who know history know the truth of Rummel’s analysis. Despite their seeming pathological inability to admit it, the Left own this history.
Force, muscle, intimidation, propaganda, suppression, branding, torture, and death, the Left employed these tools vigorously in service of their politics all over the world. More subtle were the degraded human health and welfare conditions, and lost economic opportunities, caused by socialist policies throughout the West in the same time frame.
Today, the hard Left still employ these tactics, but at their own peril since it’s only a handful of zealots who didn’t learn their history who remain engaged in the revolution. Their number seems large due to the amplifier the opposition media gives them – 24/7 coverage with loops of tight camera shots that make 5 people look like 500, repeated sound bites, hosted by doe-eyed panting journalists – to create the impression of a mass movement.
This is manipulation on a grand scale by a tiny minority. Unfortunately, anyone who turns on a television cannot avoid Leftist propaganda.
But that’s really no excuse for an otherwise sane majority of Americans to give in to Leftist provocations. Pity the Left, but don’t enable them by responding to the ghastly images and fears they propagate.
That’s just swinging at ghosts.