The cumulating loss of freedom

in Europe and Canada has led me to think of the old leftist horses that we thought were dead and gone, but now find the disease they spread lives on.

Bill Whittle, who writes the outstanding blog ejectejecteject recently made the point in a LA radio station interview see blog)that early on cultures and countries struggle and develop a a true appreciation for what they have done. As success comes, the wealth obtained allows the so-called philosophers, who have no contact with reality, to decide that the country is wrong, etc., etc. This is then transmitted through the teachers to the students.

This is easy to see. Our so called elite schools produce people who hate America, yet they are worshipped by many. The question becomes, why? I was reminded of Pierre Trudeau who sowed the vines now choking freedom in Canada.

Pierre Trudeau was quick-witted, and wits are generally attractive. The mind, as Raquel Welch once remarked, is an erogenous zone. People who aren't especially smart are especially impressed by nimble brains. This is particularly true of people who have been educated beyond their intellectual means, which describes the majority of this country's, or perhaps any country's, chattering classes. They turned out to be the engines of Trudeaumania.

We now have a candidate for President who says nothing well. He is adored by the press and his minions and we see the Democrats ignoring a candidate who, poll after poll has shown, could win in November for one who has a much slimmer chance.

Thank God.