Iowa journalist Robert Leonard has written a most fascinating op-ed in the New York Times. While devout Leftists, who have clearly drank too much of the mind numbing Kool-Aid, are incapable of learning from the immense wisdom of his piece, hopefully a few on that side of the aisle will be prompted to change their thinking … even a little.

“Democrats believe that we are born good, that we create God, not that he created us. If we are our own God, as the Democrats say, then we need to look at something else to blame when things go wrong — not us.”
Mr. Watts talked about the 2015 movie theater shooting in Lafayette, La., in which two people were killed. Mr. Watts said that Republicans knew that the gunman was a bad man, doing a bad thing. Democrats, he added, “would look for other causes — that the man was basically good, but that it was the guns, society or some other place where the blame lies and then they will want to control the guns, or something else — not the man.” Republicans, he said, don’t need to look anywhere else for the blame.
Hearing Mr. Watts was an epiphany for me. For the first time I had a glimpse of where many of my conservative friends and neighbors were coming from. I thought, no wonder Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on things like gun control, regulations or the value of social programs. We live in different philosophical worlds, with different foundational principles.

This snippet explains a lot about why Leftist politicians enact policies which are quickly taken advantage of and generally end up doing little to no good.
Here’s a follow-up to Leonard’s piece.

Mark Geragos is a famous Southern California lawyer. He frequently describes himself as a “Man of the Left” and, as such, likely voted for Hillary Clinton. But he has been dismayed by the actions of his fellow Democrat voters in recent times.

Dan Henninger has written a fascinating new column in which he digs deeper into something Michelle Obama said recently. Simply put, the Left appears to believe that “what you say” is what matters whereas others believe that actual results are much more important.

Michelle Obama and other Democrats disconsolate since the election about the loss of hope in American politics leave the impression they believe that giving people the rhetoric of hope, lifting them with words, is more important than delivering results, which some might call change.
For example, when Mrs. Clinton promised free public-college tuition, Democrats seemed to think this sort of inchoate, grandiose promise would somehow strike voters as “offering hope,” and that this impassioned commitment alone–to hope–should be enough to validate their politics. But it doesn’t, not anymore.
Once past the voting, politics is about public policies, whose real-world effects either sustain or diminish hope. Hope is the helium-filled balloon of politics. Governing in office is the gravity that pulls it back to earth.

Related: In this podcast, Henninger discusses his column with John Batchelor.

Leftists around America are no longer hiding a simple truth: They don’t believe in democracy. How else to explain the massive efforts to block President-elect Trump via the Electoral College voters?

“I would like to think we would be successful, but if not, we need to do all we could to prevent this man from being president,” he said. Then he modified a line from the movie: “Prepare your breakfast, and eat hearty, for tonight, we will go to battle. This isn’t 300, but 538.”
That “battle” has intensified as electors draw closer to their convening Monday. Joyce was getting 15 letters a day and 300 emails in the days after Nov. 8, but those numbers quickly increased to 50 and 3,000. Some of them have been form letters, others handwritten.
The letters came from Washington state and from China, stuffed with copies of the U.S. Constitution or Alexander Hamilton’s writing in Federalist Paper No. 68, which states that the meeting of the electoral college “affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

With absolutely no proof provided, Obama & co. have accused Vladimir Putin’s government of helping Trump get elected. Putin is fed up with it.
Related: John Batchelor and Stephen F. Cohen discuss Obama’s evidence-less charges.
Mark Steyn weighs in as well.

I know this is a little out of date but it’s priceless. First, in case there are any Members of the Church of Leftology reading this, a clear understanding of “hypocrisy” is required:

Now that you understand that, enjoy this epic rant by Joe Scarborough:

Related: Prior to the election . . .