Lifeofthemind said:

“So much of what the left does today is simply political payback for past grievances. Like the classic feuds of history it reaches back to personality struggles hundreds of years old. There is no real policy dispute that justifies the continuing grudge match that sucks in new acolytes.”

Normally, I would be inclined to say: “Let the penduleum swing back to The Left and allow The Left to again wear out their welcome as they always have in the past.”

The only problem with this sort of outlook is I don’t think we really have the option of allowing The Left to foul up things good and proper. So many things are marginal, e.g. Peak Oil, Islamic Fascism, credit bubbles, the near bankrupt financial state of the government, etc. We don’t really have the opiton of allowing The Left to hammer everything into the ground and then doing a clean-up afterwards.