History of the Cold War, and a Lesson for Modern Politics

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Robery Stacy McCain always has interesting things to say, and usually has some historical context to provide. That is the case here.

He starts out with an examination of some stuff that happened in WWII, when the Allies were forced to make an alliance with Stalin and the Soviet Union to defeat Hitler. It seems that only Churchill was aware of the fact that it was deal with the devil.

The lesson being: There are times to make deals with the devil, but recognize that there are times you should not, and that deal that you made will probably come to an end. Badly.

Turn the TV channel and watch CNN or MSNBC for a while, and you see that from the liberal perspective, the problem in our current politics is that Republicans have become “far-right extremists.” But speaking for myself, and the Republican voters of my direct acquaintance, we are no further right than we were 25 years ago. The real problem — what has actually changed in the past two decades — is that the Democrats have become left-wing “extremists.” This is why Republicans can no longer play the “bipartisan” game, as if Democrats were still the party of Tom Harkin, Max Baucus and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Look hard at the Left today, and we find that the current incarnation of the Democratic party is intent on sexualizing children, destroying free speech, ignoring other civil rights, including the doctrine of Informed Consent when it comes to medical procedures, and more. They want to control every aspect of life, right down to the food you are allowed to eat.

The party where JFK could say, "Ask not what your country can do for you," has mutated into the party of free stuff.