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I have stated before that my disdain for the Left comes not from some insular, moralistic intellectualism; I've lived in the belly of the beast and experienced the spirit-killing judgment and smug, cavalier self-assuredness of those for whom bureaucracy itself has become the chief arbiter of right and wrong. Many well-intentioned have simply been deceived, and the power brokers are manifestly evil.

I speak from authority not because I consider myself the chief arbiter of right and wrong, but because the childhood scenarios I described above and subsequent ones have illustrated for me too plainly that the socialistic machine some hoped would one day displace our current system -- despite having wrought nothing but degradation and ruin in the nations which embraced it -- is malevolent by nature.

Yet, the aforementioned power brokers continue to deftly incite their acolytes and the well-intentioned into divisive thought and action using such vile creatures as Ward Churchill and Helen Caldecott, who travel the country claiming that we are a fascist nation, and columnist DeWayne Wickham, who said that the 2004 national election was an instance of the white man attempting to take back power.

From whom, I couldn't say. "The people," perhaps, is how it usually goes, and "the people" are forever galvanized in their "struggle" against "the Man," or some comparable sinister, faceless enemy. It's worked pretty well for Castro, as it did in the Soviet Union for 80 years.

The eternal secret, cloaked in the big lie, of course -- which I discovered in the first grade - is that the enemy is us.

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