Let's face it, the grand narrative of the left which began with the French Revolution, got it's muse in Marx and has ere long trod on the rest of us is out of gas. The 'revolution' is as busted as a Soviet Lada on the side of the road. Socialism didn't save anyone - murdered a lot of people, exiled a bunch more, damn near sunk a bunch of rich countries before they turned away and was the Pied Piper that led the world's poor on a half century march into the slough of despond.
The 'we shall overcome, the people united can never be defeated' crap has become just that. No salvation, no bright and sunny uplands of socialist joy. Just rent seekers and ward heelers and incompetence and chaos. So it is no coincidence that as the Great Left God died for liberal secularists a new more powerful God emerged. Gaia or Mother Earth isn't simply a political persuasion seeking to reorder human relations, she is the bitch Goddess of life. And anything Mummy wants Mummy gets because she says so. So the little leftist lambikins that were abandoned by their Marxist Leninist and Socialist sheperds glommed on to an absolutely iron clad cert of a bet: greenhouse gases causes the earth to warm up, people emit all the greenhouse gases, ergo people must be controlled. And who better to manipulate the masses than those old hoofers of coercion: Left/Liberals?
So the rent seekers and ward heelers got a new spring in their step and a song on their lips because once again it's "Do what I say or you'll destroy the world". Which is what every religious nut wants: an apocalypse that makes everyone do what you tell them.
Can't we get these leftist nutters a cheaper hobby? Something like popsicle stick collecting or macrame? Macrame! That's the ticket - lefties love macrame.
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