“Sticks and stones may break my
bones, but names can never hurt me.” Remember hearing that when you were a kid?
Name-calling is common on the playground, but adults should know better. Some
don’t, as evidenced by the outrageous epithets launched by the Left at
conservatives, capitalists, and freedom lovers.
Take the brouhaha in Seattle. When
the Seattle city council voted to impose a head tax on big business to fund
measures to care for the homeless, Amazon and other corporations responsible
for the job growth in that city reacted by declaring they would shelve plans
for expansion or begin looking at relocation to places with a friendlier
business climate. What was the reaction? The Left screamed “Extortion!” and accused
the companies of using mob-like threats. “Housing is a right,” it said. But
nobody demanded that Seattle re-examine its 475-page building code that makes
it virtually impossible to build affordable housing in that city.
“A terrorist organization…They have
done everything they can to perpetuate a culture of violence that we have in
this country.” Was Debbie Wasserman Schultz talking about ISIS, MS-13, Antifa,
or the south side of Chicago? No. She was showing her contempt for the five
million members of the NRA, not one of which has been guilty of rioting against
free speech or shooting up schools
When President Trump called members
of the notorious MS-13 gang animals, the Left came to the defense of these
murderers. It called the president a Nazi and a racist and compared him to
slave traders. One Washington Post columnist
blogged, “This is disgusting. And his evangelical sycophants will applaud his
utter dehumanization of men, women, and children.” Sure. Why not attack
religion while you’re at it?
Of course, our thin-skinned
president is not one to take offense lightly or quietly. Maybe the White House could
build a playground outside the West Wing for him and his slanderers to fire
insults at each other. Or maybe they should simply grow up.
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