The Evil of the Left

January 6, 2002

by Charles E. Perry

Yeah, that’s right, I said the left is evil, and I mean it too. I just got through talking to a fine example of the left in a chat room, and what he said and what he believes is pure evil. If followed, his ideology would destroy freedom and make us all subjects of an all-powerful state. That, folks, no matter how you slice it, is pure evil.

Take the Constitution. I proved to this worthy fellow, and he admitted it, that the Constitution simply doesn’t authorize the use of tax dollars for charity. But that didn’t really matter to him. He believes that if the Constitution doesn’t allow us to do something we want to do, we should just ignore the Constitution and do it anyhow. Not only that, but he believed it was right to do so.

Let the enormity of that sink in for a second. Roll it around and get a good feel for it. By that logic, if half plus one of the people wanted to, for example, put all the Jews into death camps, why, we could do it, and it would be right to do so! We could just toss their constitutional rights out the window, and eradicate them as a people in the United States, and this liberal would accept and support it because the majority wanted it. That’s pure evil.

But it gets worse. I asked him what happened if the majority didn’t want the programs he thought were so necessary. That was no problem to him. You just make sure that "right thinking" judges were appointed, and they could rule the way you wanted them to whether the people liked it or not. Many of the people are stupid, you see, and don’t know what’s best for them, so they must be led by the hand and forced to do what is right.

Have you ever heard anything more evil?

The guy turned out to be a liar as well. I asked him where in the Constitution Congress was authorized to pass the laws he wanted. He replied that the Constitution said Congress had the authority to pass "all laws necessary and proper," and that meant they could legislate on anything. If you know the Constitution, you know why I call the man a liar, but I’ll tell you anyhow.

The Constitution says that Congress has the authority "to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers..." The "foregoing powers" part is in reference to the enumerated powers. So rather than saying Congress can legislate on anything it pleases, it really restricts what Congress can legislate on to areas where Congress is granted authority.

Folks, modern liberalism is a cancer bent on destroying the Constitution and individual liberty. We must fight it and destroy it, or it will surely destroy us. We must do battle with it in the arena of ideas. We must fight it with the truth. We must expose liberalism as the evil it is and educate our children about it so that it cannot come back in future generations. If we don’t, we are doomed to tyranny.

God save the republic.

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Charles E. Perry is a freelance writer living in Michigan. He has done a variety of things in his life, including Ward Supervisor at the State of Michigan's Maximum Security Mental Facility. His degree is in accounting, but he discovered writing and now spends his time hunched over a keyboard, hollow-eyed, looking for just the right word. Perry is the author of "How Government Should Work: A Look at the Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States," currently pending publication.

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