Lies, damn lies, and leftists.

Sarge lets me post on here whenever, and if I ever, get the itch to actually sit down and write something.  I just don’t have the time or the itch very often.  And what I think about writing I’ve probably already written, at least if it’s something with a political bent.  My thoughts, feelings, and anger are still the same as ever, although I do taper down the anger a bit.  I’ve gone from pissed off during the Obama Administration, to reserved frustration and a sense of futility with those in power on the left now.  One of those head-banging moments came recently with a old high school friend posting yet another item about someone on the right doing something that offends her sense of political right and wrong.  A post that was not only out of context, but completely lacking truth.  I don't have time to engage her on every one of these, especially since it doesn't work, but the frustration has built up to the point you have me here today at the Chant.  Man, I really need to remember more sea stories!

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I admit, I have a little feeling of intellectual superiority over those on the left.  It’s not that I find them stupid, but there is definitely some ignorance on their part.  They don’t know what they don’t know, and ignore or stubbornly refuse to listen to the facts surrounding an issue, the secondary effects of a policy or decision, or past history.

For example, the Vietnam War was tremendously unpopular, and protests were rampant, calling for the US to end the war and pull out.  America was tired of the war, wanting to stop future killing, and end the images of our dead plastered on the nightly news.  But for all the hope for peace, there was little of that following our withdrawal.  Following our retreat, it’s estimated that 350,000 to over 1 million Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians were killed.  America didn’t care about people getting killed, only that it wasn’t American people getting killed.*

Pulling out of Iraq?  The power vacuum that left led to ISIS and the murder of over 18,000 Iraqis, 36,000 wounded, and 3500 captured into sexual slavery.**   

These are unfortunate truths that the left doesn’t want to learn, acknowledge, or accept as painful results of their decisions.   Are there more?  Of course, and we’re reminded every day when we see a push from the left for social policies.  Welfare, in all its goodness, perpetuates itself for far too many.  The lack of incentive to improve oneself and the cut in benefits if one does, is another ignored truth. 

From a 1931 legend on a map of the Chicago Gangland     Pinterest

The left wants to take the moral high ground?  How’s that working in pure Democratic-led bastions like Chicago?  They don’t want to talk about how the availability of birth control and abortion has led to the complete break down of morality and the family structure.

Speaking of families, how about the Brit medical service tearing one apart?  I feel sad for little Alfie Evans, and the supposedly intellectually superior physicians carrying for him, up until they didn’t.  They diagnosed him with a degenerative disease, and pull him from life support, assuming he’ll die within minutes.  They starved him for a day before realizing they were wrong.  They believed it was far more humane to kill him through starvation than letting the condition run its course. 

Kids dying in schools?  Tragic, but somewhat misplaced anger on the part of the kids and the left, trying to stop it through a gun grab.  How about youth (and adult) deaths due to preventable car accidents?  Far more due to cell phone use than some psychopath coming into a school.  Where’s the walkouts to stop people from distracted driving?

Constant and ever-present shouts of racism from everywhere?  That is getting so tiring.  We are one of the least racist societies on the planet, with laws prohibiting it, and a preponderance of evidence that it isn’t, including the acceptance of interracial marriage, and a two-time black President.  Racism is the boogeyman for Dems, perpetuating the fear of it to distract some of their base from the truths mentioned a few paragraphs back.

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Voter ID to prevent voter fraud is racist?  Then so is checking out a library book, getting a drivers license, opening a bank account, getting welfare, buying booze, and getting a job.  The left needs to maintain the fear of racism though to enable that voter fraud they desperately need.

Some other inconvenient truths:

Remember Trumps tariff on solar panels?  That’s because Trump is an environmentalist.  It will spur solar panel manufacturing here in the US where we actually have, and care about, environmental controls.  The left wants to believe they care about the environment, but the anger over the solar panel issue is more about hating Trump than anything else.  Ok, calling Trump an environmentalist is a huuuuge stretch, but the secondary effect of that tariff can’t be ignored.

ISIS is nearly defeated.  Can’t argue that one so they stay silent.

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Korea nearly at peace?  Trumps rhetoric and aggressive stance towards them seems to be working.  It will be nice to save a buck or two on defense in the region.  We can use the get-well money.

4.1%  That’s the unemployment rate.  Lowest in a helluva long time.  We’re also seeing the lowest ever recorded for Blacks and Hispanics. 

Caravan of asylum seekers at the border?  Didn't they avoid the gang violence once they reached Mexico?  If we allow this, that'll open the floodgates to every illegal, they just have to ask for asylum. 

These are things that the left either doesn’t want to talk about, or will skew and spin to distract their base from the truth, and to keep hold of their base.  Without it, they don’t have much.  Expect more cries of racism, sexism, misogyny, Russian meddling, and trumped up buffoonery for the next couple of elections.

As a Catholic, one of our Sacraments is Reconciliation- going to confession.  It’s hard to do sometimes, none of us are perfect, and baring our soul can be painful.  The pain is released though upon completion.  The left could use a little of that.

The truth will set them free.

*https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM

**https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-death-toll-18-800-killed-iraq-2-years-u-n499426