P. Z. Meyes Leftist Atheist Idiot

Evidently the Leftatheopath P. Z. Meyers thinks the death of Robin Williams is "a wealthy white man" whose death "drag us away from the depressing news about brown people".

If this doesn't say something about the utter derangement of the Politically Correct mind then I don't know what does.

And on the racism of the police and justice system he is wrong. Blacks are vastly under represented in prison relative to their arrest rate.

Nicaragua and Left-wing Delusions

Dennis Prager likes to say; "being on the left means never having to say you're sorry". Indeed this is true. And one prominent example was the Leftwing intelligencer's amazing proclivity for ignoring the crimes of socialist dictatorships be it Slalin's or Mao's. During the 80's the Left were more likely to denounce Reagan than the Soviet dictator Brezhnev proving their utter moral bankruptcy.

Another rallying point for the Left's hatred of Reagan was the Sandinistas' victory in 1979 in Nicaragua. The U.S.' principle fear was that this victory, amidst cold war tensions, would set off a domino effect of collapsing governments on the pro-American side. The writer and intellectual Paul Berman - who's writings on the roots of Islamic fundamentalism are well worth consulting - who is on the Left has long been one willing to tell the truth about what the Sandinistas were really like.

His letter to the socialist mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, is well worth a read. He pops the bubble of starry-eyed leftism with its greater attraction to idealism than the actual facts on the ground and the real flesh and blood individuals who are experiencing the consequences of their delusional naivety.

The inability to see the reality of political oppression in Nicaragua stemmed from a well-known toxic by-product of a certain kind of political idealism, which is smug arrogance: an old story. The foreign visitors believed sincerely in the superiority of their own ideas, they trembled with indignation at the policies of the Reagan Administration, and their beliefs and their indignation joined together like two cymbals to drown out the whispered anguish of the poor and the persecuted. 

The foreign visitors never noticed that Sandinista claims to democratic socialism were a deception. They never recognized that authentic Sandinista doctrine was a leafy Central American variation on Cuban ideology, military uniforms and top-down obedience and all, which itself traced back to the ice floes of the Soviet tundra. And the visitors never appreciated that, in towns like Masaya, a great many people ended up afraid of foreign visitors—afraid of the wealthy university-educated adventurers from abroad who, in the eyes of ordinary Nicaraguans, were agents of the Sandinista government, no different from the Bulgarian, East German, Cuban and Russian advisors.

Or maybe the well-meaning visitors lacked for political imagination. Maybe the visitors were unable to recognize that even something as splendid as a health campaign may contain, on its underside, political aspects that are bound, in the long run, to undo any progress in public health or any other social service and reform. It was Masaya's health program that seems to have impressed you especially. But, Mr. de Blasio, what sort of health program would you expect from a government that sometimes chose to deny food rations to its critics? You were impressed by Masaya's health outreach program in 1988, and I do not doubt that you saw many impressive efforts. But were you aware that, in 1988, still another insurrection, or almost-insurrection, against the Sandinistas got underway? Or aware that an overwhelming majority of Nicaragua's doctors fled the country? Or aware that Nicaragua's health reforms depended massively on foreign doctors, who were never going to stay for long?