When I was a political science graduate student in the 1980s, the Cold War was still raging, and my university was filled with leftists who were pulling for the Sandinistas, the Nicaraguan Marxists, and other various and sundry Communists around the globe to defeat Ronald Reagan and the United States. These folk used to meet in the local coffee house and practice talking Marxist gibberish to one another.
After the Cold War ended, I often wondered what happened to my “Coffee House Marxists.” Where did they go? What are they doing now?
It turns out that a substantial chunk of them have gone to work for the Obama Administration. Were it not for the tremendous damage being done to this nation and to the lives of untold millions of freedom-loving people around the world, one could be amused by the daily parade of ineptitude, incompetence and disrespect for America displayed by Mr. Obama’s cadre of Coffee House Marxists.
No thug or tyrant is too mean to bow down before. China and Saudi Arabia are only two recipients of our President’s fawning. And, “jihadism” is the terror that dare not speak its name.
No leader of a great Western nation is too exalted not to insult. Ship the bust of Churchill back to Old Blighty. MP3s of Obama oratory for the Queen—she’ll love it. The President literally walks out on the prime minister of a sovereign nation and essential ally (Benjamin Netanyahu) to eat dinner. And on and on it goes.
In my day, the coffee house marxists cheered for Fidel Castro. They also differed from the 1980s coffee house marxists in another significant respect: they weren't going to go to work for anybody, even the White House.
While generations of college students came and went, they stayed. I didn't know where they got their money; still don't.
It still amuses me that naiive voters sometimes install these people in public office, and even expect something good to happen as a result. It never does.
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