The nonstop avalanche of hatred spewing from the hearts of the leftist and neocon political classes in America has the appearance of religious fanaticism on steroids, the kind that must have fueled the Spanish Inquisition. It is not real religion, of course, but the “religion” of statism, that has replaced religious faith in the minds of these nonstop spewers of hate because their “sainted” Hillary Clinton lost the election. To them, Hillary Clinton is more “moral” than the Pope, Mother Theresa, or any other religious figure because to them, “morality” stems not from faith in God or living by the Ten Commandments but from one’s support for leftist ideas, rhetoric, and policies. For socialism, in other words — even if they refuse to call it socialism.
When this first cropped up, about five minutes after Hillary Clinton’s non-concession concession, it reminded me of a run-in I once had a decade or so ago with an acquaintance who I’m sure has been exploding with Trump hatred for the past two years now. He was a senior vice president of a television network and a lifelong Washingtonian. A typical D.C. liberal who lived in Chevy Chase, MD all his life, well inside the Washington orbit. All of his friends, neighbors, and co-workers were just like him, politically speaking. I made the offhand remark that I don’t vote because it “only encourages them” and besides, most of what government does is blatantly unconstitutional (not to be found in Article 1, Section 8). Therefore, voting just helps to legitimize this unconstitutional regime.
The man went completely nuts, shouting that I had attacked his most cherished of all beliefs — voting and “democracy.” He really, really lost it and had no interest whatsover in any civilized discussion of the matter. As far as he was concerned, anyone who expressed such views should be imprisoned for treason, if not hanged. I had attacked his “religion” which, to a lifelong Leftist who has spent his entire adult life declaring his moral superiority over any and all non-Leftists, this was the ultimate insult. To him and millions of other Leftists, Trump’s first inaugural address in which he denounced the entire Washington establishment, as most of it sat right next to him, was a declaration of war on their “religion.” And, in the spirit of their patron “saints” Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, they demand unconditional surrender. As Lew Rockwell once remarked after observing a television image of leftists smashing a pinata in the image of President Trump, these are people who would beat the president himself to death with a stick if they had the opportunity. He exposes them as the supreme hypocrites and moral phonies that they are and have been all their lives and they just can’t stand it. Some of them appear to have not slept since election day, 2016.
8:35 am on December 11, 2018
