Ben Shapiro, an author I had never heard of before, appeared
on C-SPAN’s Book TV. His book title was BULLIES How the Left’s Culture of Fear
. . . . He was making his presentation to the Heritage Foundation. He said among other things that people on the
left are always saying Conservatives want
to hurt old and poor people. Of course, his emphatic declaration was, “No they don’t”. He stopped there when
to be truthful he should have added, “Conservatives
do not intentionally hurt old people or any other kind people but they do hurt people”.
I like to think in terms of a person thrashing about in a
lake while drowning and another person with a rope standing nearby on the
shore. If he does not throw the rope to help
the drowning man is he hurting him? If he says, the person in the lake should
not have been fallen out of the boat and into the water because he did not know
how to swim; therefore, he does not deserve help. He has not idea why the man
is in the water; all he knows is that he is in the water. The guy with the rope does not want to hurt the guy in the water, but he does. How does
the drowning man differ from a person with six children, who just lost his job,
or a retired person with no income, or a cancer victim impoverished by medical bills?
Extend that thought to a person with a low IQ, or a veteran who lost his legs
in a war.
I see Ben Shapiro in the same light as I see Anne Coulter,
the equally heartless right wing commentator, who told an audience that people
who sleep on grates in the streets should do what she did, which was go to
college, work hard and make something of them selves. Anne, they don’t have a
rich union breaking lawyer father to pay the bills. They do not have the
intelligence to go to college. Or, perhaps they are not held in the grips of
alcohol addition or a thousand other reasons. Democrats throw the rope while conservative
keep it because it is their rope, they worked hard to pay for it, and deserve
to keep it. Do they intentionally hurt
the drowning man? No, it is just that their rope is more important.
No comments:
Post a Comment