Understand What's at Stake

The lead this morning on Drudge reads: ‘Critics march against Chavez across Latin America...’ The article it links to says that there were protests in New York and Europe (Madrid) as well. It seems that people are waking up to Chavez’s global designs.

Hugo is a dogged sort. He has it in mind to rule the world, starting with Latin America. He built his credentials by criticizing the U.S. - especially Bush, who never responded to the dictator’s rhetoric directly, except by quietly (and ineffectively) plotting his overthrow. Hugo has since succeeded in rallying any number of bad actors to his side, both in Latin America and in the Middle East. Count Mugabe in Africa also among the people whose sympathies he was able to engage.

In all this, Chavez could count on support from the American Left that rose to prominence in an unprecedented wave of Bush (i.e. America) bashing, spearheaded by the Democrat Party, the American MSM and academe; all three, who first managed to coordinate and then orchestrate an orgy of contempt for everything American and thereby succeeded in legitimizing anti-American principles and conferring high status on anyone who espoused them. That’s how miscreants like Paul Krugman and Mary Robinson came to be rewarded high internationally coveted honors. And this is what gave us Barrack Hussein Obama, our first revolutionary president since George Washington.

We can well understand Latin America leaning left. Decades of corrupt rule, inexplicable economic stagnation and blame-shifting have engendered a climate of distrust towards their hugely successful (relatively speaking) northern neighbor. We can understand Chavez’ schmoozing with Ahmadinejad, whose own fortunes so clearly depend on maintaining an adversarial stance with the West. We understand the role of Israel in all this – the only free democracy in the Middle East - whose very existence puts all the other oil-rich nations there to shame.

But what of the American Left? How are we to explain their disdain for freedom, opportunity, economic success and so much more? Is it the sickness of arrogance? Is it a failure of confidence in God? Is it the scourge of compulsive, questionable behavior and excess that has become so ingrained in the fabric of (especially) urban society that can no longer be curbed and must therefore seek atonement under radical guise?

Whatever the reason, we have finally arrived at the brink. From here on, it could go either way for us. Our only hope is to register our numbers. We must demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of us understand what’s at stake. We must show solidarity, unwavering resolve, and the will to risk everything – for freedom.