The American Left Slides Into Psychosis (J.R. Dunn)

From American Thinker:

… Leftists have always believed that one clear shot, one opportunity to put their policies into play without opposition from “reactionary interests,” would result in a political chain reaction, success leading to further success and finally absolute triumph as the New Socialist Jerusalem came into being with almost no effort on their part. This is childish fantasy, a wish-fulfillment daydream, transparent almost to the point of contempt. (It’s also extremely ahistorical—exactly such circumstances existed in 1933 and 1964 due to historical accident. Liberals botched things then exactly as they are doing now.) But for many years it has been the only thing keeping the left going.

Leftists really believed that Obama embodied their moment. Obama held all the cards—majorities in both houses, a slavish press that viewed him as no less than a godling, an enthusiastic public, even an acquiescent international establishment, overlooking a few holdouts such as Kim and Ahmadinejad. No left-of-center president has had smoother road before him—not FDR, not Lyndon Johnson. Yet Obama’s efforts amount to utter failure. Not because of opposition from the “party of no,” not because of circumstances, not because of sabotage. But because of Obama’s “success” itself. He got the bills passed, guaranteed that their execution would be in the hands of extraconstitutional figures beholden only to him, and got them funded by means both legal and illegal. All of it was put into play with a smoothness that only Chicago thuggery combined with socialist chicanery could accomplish. He launched them, and they crashed, and they burned.

They crashed and burned because they cannot work. Not in a universe with natural laws that operate the way they do and with human nature constituted as it is. They have never worked anywhere they have been tried—not in Europe, not in Asia, not in Africa, nowhere across this wide world. Obama’s grand schemes have been attempted previously. The failures were hurriedly stuffed down the memory hole, enabling the left to hope for another shot sometime down the line. (No small number of people in this country—many of them not doctrinaire leftists by any means—truly believe that FDR “ended” the Depression.)

But today they have a problem—several, in point of fact. The first is that the memory hole has in large part been filled in over the past decade and a half by such things as the Internet and the New Media. It’s no longer a simple matter to shove nationwide failures out of sight. It may not even be possible.

The second is the fact that this time they bet the house. They put everything down on Obama. Because it had to work. Because the third time was the charm. Because O was the messiah. And now they’re sitting in the casino dead broke, without another dime to lay on the table, and through the doorway they can hear the shouts of the people whose money they embezzled.

This is why the left is being overwhelmed by psychosis. Because they are up against the wall with no way out. Under such circumstances the strong individual bites the bullet and runs for daylight. The weak fall apart. It’s been a long, long time since anyone defined leftists as “strong.” …