At the office where I work this time of year I frequently get to watch a woodpecker batter himself against the glass. In fact he is doing that right now.

One of the most remarkable characteristics of the Left is how they time and again falsely accuse their opponents of doing something, and then when they get in power they do it for real.

The examples of this are many. Internationally, the Soviets announced they were acting to forestall invasions of Czecholvokia and Afghanistan when they invaded. And the parallels between the Democratic accusations leveled at the Reagan and Bush Adminstrations and what Carter, Clinton and Obama actually did are incredible.

One of the most important observations I have ever heard about the Left was David Horowitz’s statement that it really was always about THEM. The personal failings of individual leftists were projected on the country as a whole. Even before that, I had observed that the term “societal problems” really meant “Things I don’t like but do not want to be bothered with fixing myself.”

So the Left is entranced by the mirror it sees everywhere, and thinking that bird in the glass is an enemy, and correctly deducing the danger it presents, proceeds to batter itself against a barrier of its own creation.