Tyranny: The left's true north

One of the blessings of the left's assent to power last year – there aren't many – is that ordinary Americans have glimpsed what the left looks like without the mask.

Here's Barack Obama promising – eight times on different televised occasions – to open the health-care debate to all comers and televise the debate process on CSPAN.

The reality is just a wee bit different, isn't it? Extraordinary measures are being taken to prevent even senators and congressmen from finding out what's in the bill prior to voting on it. The

"discussees" are few and members of only one political party. And bribery – not merits – has purchased the necessary support. Not only is our opinion not considered – it's not wanted.

How did we get from "hope and change" to "deceit and tyranny"? The short answer is: America had forgotten what the left really looked like.

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The memory of "Uncle Joe" Stalin's political opponents being herded onto cattle cars and left to freeze to death on Siberian railway tracks is no longer taught in the schools. Unfortunately, however, it happened. Sixty million of the Soviet Union's own citizens murdered, so the

communist left could do away with religion and create the communist version of "heaven on earth."

Hitler's murderous reign is still in the textbooks – but only because the Jews won't let the world forget. What has been forgotten, however, is that Hitler was a socialist. His party was the National Socialist Worker's Party. That didn't work out so well, however, for anyone who opposed "the party."

And let's not forget Mao's quiet revolution in China. It was quiet because millions of his political opponents were locked up in concentration camps, being "re-educated" by ritualized beatings in the joys of forfeiting one's property, one's family and finally one's life – to the almighty state.

The left has promoted the image of compassion and caring for ordinary people (at the expense of other ordinary people). Big media, being filled with leftists, has been only too happy to promote that image at every turn. So why is it that when ordinary people object to the left's policies and actions, they are rounded up, put in concentration camps, or herded into Siberian railway cattle cars and abandoned to freeze to death?

Do you remember the pedestrian killed recently in Washington, D.C., by the Secret Service speeding around the streets? There was no VIP in their vehicle; they were simply demonstrating that they are not bound by the laws they've passed for the rest of us. I thought immediately of Mussolini's comment when his motorcade ran over a small child. "What is the death of a small child in the affairs of a great state?"

Why does the left always end up behaving this way? The answer is very simple. The left is not a political movement. The left is a religion. It's heaven is here on earth. It must be built by man. Its god is government.

The reality is: Hell is what happens to any nation that embraces the left's religion and gives them political power.

The blessing is, America is now remembering.