Dennis Prager: the defining characteristic of most people on the Left is naivete about evil
Posted on July 17, 2008
Christie’s Auction House has sold John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to Give Peace A Chance for $833,654 dollars. Yes, it is hard to think of more stupidity in as few words, no matter what you said. If you said the Earth is flat, it would be less foolish than the lyrics to that line. First of all, as I have always felt, from the time that it was popular, is that is all they are saying. That is exactly right. They have nothing profound to say, give peace a chance. That’s right. Well, you give peace a chance by using the military. That’s why Ingrid Betancourt and thirteen others were liberated.
Just to let you know, and they have not revealed one third of what, and they say we’re not telling. It’s too humiliating, too degrading, too nightmarish. But just as one example, Ingrid Betancourt, remember this is a woman in her 40s who was running for president, by the way, on the left, a woman on the left running for president of Colombia. She went into areas where the FARC monsters had been strong to campaign, was kidnapped, and never let out. It is good to know, though, that she was a very big deal in Europe, who loved her. She was an attractive, intelligent woman who was married to a Frenchman, and so she was a French-Colombian, or a Colombian-French. And she had run for president, she was on the Green Party ticket, among other tickets. And she was just a cause celebre, a celebrated cause in Europe.
For whatever reason, that did not move the FARC monsters. It did not. The resolutions passed in Paris did not seem to move them. However, when the military showed up in a brilliant plan, brilliant, concocted over months with Americans and other help, that worked. That worked. People with weapons got her out. The military got her out. Now they got her out, by the way, without even killing anybody, which is wonderful. If the military can win without killing, I’m all for it…
I want to read to you some of the comments that she made when she got out. It was not treatment you can give to a living being. I won’t even speak of the human being, Betancourt said. I wouldn’t have given the treatment I had to an animal, perhaps not even to a plant. Pretty powerful, huh? When I say that they were chained, this is from CNN Carl Penhall. When I say they were chained by the neck for 24 hours a day, it wasn’t just for a few days. It was for two and three years.
But here is the line that I most wanted to isolate from one of the reports. But the worst thing that happened to her, she said, was “realizing that mankind, that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.” Well, given that she was a woman of the moderate left, I mean, obviously not the far left like them, but on the left, I knew by definition she was naive about evil. That is the defining characteristic of almost everyone left of center, is naivete about evil. And that’s why they caused so much trouble, even when many of them are very sweet people, as I’m sure she is. She was shocked that people could be so cruel…
They think George Bush is evil. That’s how sick, how sick the left mind is about real evil. It is. On the issue of good and evil, the leftist mind is perverse. Yeah, she just couldn’t realize, she never realized that mankind, that human beings could be so horrible to other beings. Why not? Did she never read any history of the Communists in China? Of the Gulag Archipelago? Of the Holocaust? I just don’t know. How did she not realize this? Well, part of the reason is that for people on the left, it has to happen to them to be real. Everything has to be personalized. Well, I never experienced it. That’s why there’s no wisdom on the left. You can’t be wise if you don’t learn from others.
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The line uttered by the character played by Charles Bronson in the first “Death Wish” movie says it all: “A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.”
Wonderful article. I obviously agree with everything. Liberals are good at fighting other liberals. But when it comes to leading us through the perilous world we all live in, they are actually worse than useless; they add to the dangers by denying the existence of our enemies.
There is NOTHING one can possibly argue with in this piece. HORSE SENSE is kinda like that, if you’ve noticed.
This requirement for “personal experience” of something before acknowledging its existence is fraught with perils. That is why Liberals and leftists spend so much time and energy EMOTING. And here they are preaching to ME about “energy efficiency” and “energy conservation”. Walking your talk starts HERE…
Has anyone else noticed the Liberal/Left’s apparent inability to read anything longer than a slogan? This is also reflected in the individual liberal/Leftist’s inability to debate – in the traditional, moderated manner – their opponents. They launch into name-calling and bald accusation almost immediately. As social company, they are intellectually boring in the extreme…
If William Buckley had been semi-literate, maybe he, too, would have been part of the Liberal/Left. But Bill could READ, REMEMBER, ASSOCIATE, CONNECT DOTS, and THINK THINGS THROUGH. These, I have noted, tend to characterize the Conservative/Right.
This qualitative difference is also reflected in media. The Liberal/Left media’s loosey-goosey editorial standards “accommodate” all manner of nutbar perspectives with the same ersatz academic gravitas. It CAN be REALLY REALLY FUNNY.
On the other hand, the Conservative media tends towards the more traditional, academically researched, empirical arguments that follow classic Western reason and logic. Naturally, these are dismissed as “boring” but the placard-waving Liberal/Left. Revealing, no?
Let’s face it. In light of the lack of really funny comedians and the recent death of the brilliant George Carlin, there is only ONE conclusion possible.
GOD created the Liberal/Left to keep the Conservative/Right amused during “dry spells” on the Comedy Circuit. It’s THAT simple!
This, too, shall pass….