"The left is power-mad"
by Aaron Velasquez
One has only to wait for the word "greed" to be uttered in conversation to know that one is speaking to a Leftist, or more properly, a Marxist. Indeed, "Greed" is the rallying cry of the morally superior relativist. Wall street greed, corporate greed, Republican greed, your greed if you disagree. "Greed" is the great Satan that caused our current economic turmoil, according to any properly programmed left-winger.
To be sure, a conservative would tell you that the human characteristics of acquisitiveness and desire fuel our entire world economy, and he would probably tell you that this is a Good Thing. A Marxist/Democrat would call this "greed" and say that it is a Bad Thing.
The leftist utters the word as if he has no greed, as if Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Lenin and Stalin, Mao and company were motivated by a higher calling, and thus, were completely greed free. A refutation of greed becomes the central tenet of a good Marxist, and we are all supposed to share our misery equally, under the thumb of our greedless leaders.
The trouble with this scenario is that the left does indeed have its own version of greed. Leftists may decry the love of money, but they themselves love nothing so much as power. It is the lust for power, the greed for power that is the wolf, clad in a fluffy sheepskin of moral superiority, false piety and sham concern for the masses. A dictator, a Soviet leader, an Ayatollah, a Democratic demagogue and a micromanaging President are all greedier than the fattest fatcat banker, but they don't want money, they want power. They want nothing more than to tell everybody else what to do. That is the hole in the rhetoric. That is the lie. The left is power-mad.
