? A while ago Billy Beck posted a timely quote and a comment. I kept it on file because I kind of figured it would be useful at some point in the future. That is today…
“… the same uninflected, monotonous tone of a memorised lesson, the same automatic progression of sounds rather than meaning, the same earnest, dutiful, desperate hope that the sacred formulas will come out correctly. But in the face and eyes of a large television closeup, there was a shade more intensity than in the faces of the poor little college robots, more superstitious awe, and less comprehension: it was the face of a man performing a magic ritual on which his life depends. This man, I thought, believes it; he is compelled to believe it; he does not know what it means—but he knows that if this string of sounds were taken away from him, he would left to face something more frightening than death.”
Says Billy;
That’s Ayn Rand writing on Nikita Khrushchev. The thing is: that perfectly describes every liberal and leftist I ever met.
Which brings us to the shock and disbelief that we saw in Hillary Clinton supporters this past week. How else to explain what we saw other than the kind of mentality described above being shocked back into reality?
It’s unfortunate that that’s the only satisfaction I will get out of this election season.