By Mark Rhoads -
Few things better dramatize the stark divide between the intellectual confusion of the Left and the common-sense clarity of the conservative community than a variety of comical posters that are flying around social media right now. The source of these posters tends to be people like Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders or obscure blogs wih "blue" in their names.
For example today one of my progressive acquaintnaces displayed a poster on her Facebook page that showed a picture of the Constitution under the title "This is the Law." and a picture of the Holy Bible under the title "This is not." When I politely commented that the Constitution would have no legitimacy if it were not rooted in the supreme law of God, I expected a torrent of progressive critics to malign my comment. But much to my pleasant suprise, many people liked the comment and posted other comments that agreed with my view. The additional irony of course is that secular progressives are usually the first people to claim the Constitution is out of date and should be interpreted only by elitist judges on the Left who make it up as they go along by inventing new rights somewhere in the murky "penumbra" of the written Bill of Rights.
Other posters from Sen. Bernie Sanders argue that the people of Detroit who have not paid their bills deserve to have their water turned on because after all the United Nations has declared water to be a "Human Right." Oh really? Is it also a human right to get the delivery of water free of charge from a company that spent millions of dollars to build the pipes and filters to protect the safety of the drinking water with the work of qualified engineers and chemists who need to be paid? Should those investors and professionals work for free? And even if the water company failed, who would pay for the delivery of the water? It is not always the case that the Left necessarily is intellectually dishonest but the problem is worse because the Left is intellectually sloppy and confused.
Sen. Sanders also has a poster on Facebook that lists the minimum wage in several counties that is higher than the U.S. minimum wage and asks the rhetorical question, "Isn't it time for America to catch up with the rest of the world?" Well no, it is not time for America to play copy cat to the failures of socialism in other countries that cost their young citizens jobs with fake comparisons of our economy to theirs.
The dirty little secret of the American Left is that for all their pretensions to intellectual gravitas and moral high ground, they are actually nothing more than arrogant slaves to a pompous ideology who cannot defend their intellectually weak arguments under common-sense scrutiny.
