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.
