Mark Steyn Opines -- The Lunacies of the Left

Mark Steyn nails it again. He starts with a typically sharp observation:

Worrying is the way the responsible citizen of an advanced society demonstrates his virtue: He feels good by feeling bad.

So true…, so true! There's a reason that the Prius has been nicknamed the "Pious". And what you choose to worry about tells a lot about you. Steyn points out that lefties who spent several decades worrying about nuclear warfare when few nations had the bomb and were unlikely to use it are now blasé about Iran’s attempts to join the nuclear club and its repeated threat to eradicate Israel. Instead they now worry about global warming. Go figure.

And then there are those on the left who have embraced a lunatic "posthumanist" agenda that considers humanity to be a plague to be destroyed. They are actually rooting for the extermination of the human species. He has a few words for them, too.

Read the whole thing here.

And then there's this - writing in the NRO Steyn opines:

Christopher Hitchens said on the Hugh Hewitt show recently that he "dislikes" the Republican party but has "contempt" for the Democrats. I appreciate the distinction, though I'm not sure I could muster even that level of genial tolerance. The Democrats have been the most contemptible opportunists in the years since 9/11: If they've got nothing useful to contribute to the great challenge of the age they could at least have the decency not to waste our time waving around three-year-old Abu Ghraib pictures and chanting "exit strategy" every ten minutes.

My sentiments exactly. I don't agree with Steyn and Hitchens on everything, but here they have nailed it. It's hard to respect the Republicans, but the sheer destructive lunacy of the left and the Democrat mainstream is so overwheming that it dwarfs the sins of the right. With very few exceptions Democrats these days are utterly contemptible.

Read it here.