The thing that has always struck me about the American Left is just how unoriginal they are. For the most part they just attempt to slavishly imitate European theories about how a country should be run. Their goal it often seems is to turn the United States into a European style welfare state, and to implement dry rot socialism where the outward legal fiction of private ownership of the economy is maintained but all the traditional prerogatives of ownership are effectively taken over by the state by laws and regulations.

These are old ideas. There is nothing “progressive” about them. We can see how well this is working for Europe. The economic gap between Europe and America is growing, and it is not in Europe’s favor. History has discredited the very premises upon which their world view is based, but the reactionary left is blind to this.

And so it is with the naive idea that everything can be worked out through negotiation and empathy, and that violence is never necessary. They cannot seem to comprehend that there are situations in which no compromise is possible or even thinkable. If a burglar breaks into your home with the idea of raping your daughter, one does not negotiate with him concerning the number or type of sexual acts that he can engage in with the girl. If its in your power you will destroy him, and this is a concept that the governing elites of Old Europe and their American sycophants don’t even seem to be capable of grasping.

There can be no negotiation with the likes of OBL or the monsters who masterminded the Beslan massacre. Anyone who thinks otherwise is seriously deranged.