Leftist Hero Worship Of The Infamous Is History Repeating

There is historical precedent for the shocking preferences of the political left in this country and around the world.

As stunning as it might be currently to right-thinking (pun intended) individuals to see many on the left siding with illegal immigrants, narco-terrorists, violent law-breakers and other dregs of society, it is not something new under the sun.

While rational types do not condone welfare, mortgage or voting fraud, those on the left embrace the concepts.

I’m reminded of a quote from a William F. Buckley Jr. book I read in my youth, in which a 1960s rioter, carting a TV he had looted from a store, proclaimed “How else are we going to get color TV into the hands of the masses?”

How, indeed!

Similarly, in view of the across-the-board failure of socialism wherever practiced, how can so many leftists champion that losing socio-economic principle? And yet they do.

Feel free to indulge in an obligatory headshake at this point.

Again, this open-arms approach to obviously wrong moral, ethical and legal matters is merely a repeat of history.

For example, progressive types around the world openly embraced Hitler and Mussolini while both were still alive and in power. In a case of art imitating life, the move “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” features a title character who openly admires Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

In reality, there were many like her. A story on discoverthenetworks.org cites notables of the 1930s such as H.G. Wells (he of the War of the Worlds book), NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois, playwright George Bernard Shaw, humorist Will Rogers (who never met a man he didn’t like, and he did meet Mussolini) and other reporters, commentators and shapers of public opinion who just adored two of the more infamous people in the history of mankind.

Should we be surprised that contemporary leftists cream their jeans over the Maryland Dad, socialists/communists holding elective office and the millions of illegal aliens who crowd our schools, welfare system and courts, while likely also voting left in the process?

The world recovered from the Mussolini and Hitler worship — sort of — but it required World War II.

Hopefully there is an easier solution this time, but I’m not optimistic.