The End Game of the Left

By Andrew Thomas, AT:

Tax the rich,
Feed the poor,
‘Til there are no
Rich no more.
- “I’d Love to Change the World”
Ten Years After (1971)

Over the Columbus Day weekend, my wife and I traveled to Brooklyn, N.Y. to visit our daughter and her boyfriend. I was strictly admonished by my wife not to talk politics during the visit, since my daughter’s boyfriend is a radical leftist. He, being a well-educated social science buff, and I, being who I am (a well-educated “right-wing nut job”), we had created many spectacular fireworks during past political debate sessions.

Things went well up until Sunday afternoon, when we were both seated on the couch benignly watching a football game on his 60″ television screen. During a commercial break, there was a news announcement concerning another New York City tax increase. Before I could catch myself, I blurted out the Ten Years After lyric at the top of this article.

It was as though I had hit his “ON” button. He immediately jumped off the couch and started screaming, “That’s RIGHT! That’s EXACTLY RIGHT!”

I replied, “But shouldn’t the lyric be “Til there are no poor no more’? Isn’t that true social justice?”

He stated with utmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world’s misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible.

“Then you want everyone to live in poverty?” I queried.

“Absolutely,” he replied.

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