“But they just didn’t materialize one day out the clear blue. They were created by faulty systems and toxic people.”

Ah, true, but it is much worse than that in terms of the impact on the Left. “They were created” by basic flaws in personal philosophies and the larger beliefs underlying them about Equality, Social Justice, Civil Rights, and the government’s ability to conjure resources out of thin air in order to meet such objectives. To question these beliefs, to conclude that not everyone deserves a house of his own merely because he exists on the planet, to find that not all beliefs and lifestyles are equal and deserve equal success, to possibly even conclude that large segments of some ethnic groups are hopeless dirtbags, well, that would knock over the whole house of cards.

The CRA and other such instruments were the Left’s equivalents of Nazi Wonder Weapons, the marvelous developments that will win the war if they just hung on a little longer.