Even Astronauts Fear the Left (smears & fear)

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Even Astronauts Fear the Left
Dennis Prager Dennis Prager |Posted: Nov 20, 2018 12:01 AM
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Even Astronauts Fear the Left

There are many reasons I pity today's younger generation of Americans.

Among them are:

--The unconscionable debt we are leaving them.

--The obliteration of male and female as separate and distinct
categories -- and the sexual confusion that is left in its wake.

--The emasculation of men and the de-feminization of women.

--The undermining of the value of marriage.

--The lack of God and religion in their lives -- and the consequent
search for meaning in the wrong places.

--The receiving of indoctrination, rather than education, in most
schools from elementary through graduate.

--The inability to celebrate being American.

Tragically and ironically, each one of these was brought on by the very
group many young people identify with: the left.

You can add the left's tearing down of heroes to the list.

This came to mind this past month, when world-famous astronaut Scott
Kelly, who spent a year on board the International Space Station, among
other space-related achievements, tweeted the following message in
commenting on the deep divisions in American politics: "One of the
greatest leaders of modern times, Sir Winston Churchill, said, 'In
victory, magnanimity.' I guess those days are over."

He was then widely attacked on social media -- for quoting former
British Prime Minister Churchill and deeming him a great leader.
According to the trolls, Kelly is now in league with the hateful, racist
Winston Churchill.

As I repeatedly point out, if you do not understand the left is a wholly
destructive force whose primary mission is to tear down the leading
institutions and individuals of the Western world, you do not understand
the left.

Thus, to many -- perhaps most -- young Americans, the Founding Fathers
of America were not the giants you and I believe them to be. They were
rich, racist, misogynistic white men. Now it is Churchill's turn to be
torn down. It means nothing to the left that he led the world in
fighting the greatest racist of all time, Adolf Hitler, and the greatest
racist ideology of all time, Nazism. All that matters is that he made
some race-based comments about English cultural (not racial) superiority
and that he was allegedly complicit in the Bengal famine of 1943 in
which between 1.5 and 3 million Indians died.

With regard to the latter, Churchill's left-wing detractors claim
Churchill said the famine was the Indians' fault for "breeding like
rabbits."

But this is overwhelmingly, if not entirely, left-wing smear. Regarding
Churchill's attitude toward Indians "breeding like rabbits," Andrew
Roberts writes in his just-published a 1,000-page authoritative
biography of Churchill: "Churchill had previously long instanced the
astonishing population growth in India in the first four decades of the
twentieth century as a mark of the success of the Empire and in November
1942 he was still boasting to the Spanish Ambassador, the Duke of Alba,
'Since the English occupation of India the native population has
increased by a hundred million. Since the American War of Independence,
the Red Indian population has practically died out.'"

As regards Churchill's racism, Roberts writes of Churchill as early as
1900: "Churchill had no sympathy for the aggressive white supremacism of
the Afrikaner, from which his own paternalistic instincts were entirely
different. He wrote of a future South African society in which 'Black is
to be proclaimed the same as white ... to be constituted his legal
equal, to be armed with political rights,' a prospect that infuriated
Afrikaners no less than would be 'a tigress robbed of her cubs.'"

And as regards the Bengal famine, Churchill's official biographer, the
late Sir Martin Gilbert, whom I personally knew to be among the most
honest writers I ever met, said: "Churchill was not responsible for the
Bengal Famine. I have been searching for evidence for years: none has
turned up. The 1944 Document volume of the official biography (Hillsdale
College Press) will resolve this issue finally."

But none of this matters to the left. As I wrote previously, those on
the left regard themselves as Ubermenschen, superior to all those who
lived before them and all those who differ with them today.

But the worst part of the Scott Kelly story is the astronaut's immediate
reaction to the negative tweets: "Did not mean to offend by quoting
Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his
atrocities, racist views which I do not support. ..."

In Kelly's view, Winston Churchill went from "one of the greatest
leaders of modern times" to a man whose "atrocities and racist views" he
will further educate himself on.

You know why? Because in America today, the greatest fear is fear of the
left. Apparently, the left is even scarier than outer space.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and
columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is "The
Rational Bible," a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder
of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.