Misdirection and deception

Ariel Durant evaluated a young politician as “a young Apollo offering to devote his agile mind and proven courage to the task of leading America between the Scylla of reaction and the Charybdis of Communism.” Is not this appraisal of John F. Kennedy equally appropriate to our now chocolate Apollo, Barack Obama? Equally deluded are supporters of JFK and dupes of the big O.

Bishop Sheen in the early 1960's said that “it takes more courage than brains to know God.” Jerome Welch clarified this statement to Ariel Durant’s husband Will by noting that doubt is a kind of intellectual suicide whereby the mind rejects the very truth for which it was made and naturally inclines.” Again is this not true of the deluded Utopian progressives following Obama’s leftist agenda? The appeal is not to truth but to emotion, consensus, reconciliation and agnosticism.

The socialist Will Durant wrote in 1963: “Let us say, humbly but publicly, that we resent corruption in politics, dishonesty in business, faithlessness in marriage, pornography in literature, coarseness in language, chaos in music, meaninglessness in art.”

Let me say that even from an agnostic socialist with Pantheistic overtones, Will Durant, from a liberal who sui generis lived a long life mostly seeing the world upside down imbued with his dream of a compromise between capitalism and socialism - I’ll print the truth when I read it.

Read paragraph 3 again dear reader, and weep for our beloved country.