The People's Party Hates the People

By Bian-lian Huang.

When I was an undergraduate at an elite SoCal University, I took an enjoyable class with a leftist professor who was the epitome of arrogance. I learned then that the good folks on the left have a proclivity for arrogance and elitism, notwithstanding their frequent refrain about supporting the common man.

The current debate on the Messiah's health care reform, which, to borrow a phrase from Rush Limbaugh, the state-run media have basically refused to cover, underscores this arrogance. When the common folks come out to question -- at times vociferously -- their elected representatives about the details of the proposed bill, the Left calls them Nazi, and in the word of one Democratic Representative, "un-American." And in the case of the putative Senator Diane Feinstein of California, the police was called out to rough up senior citizens who dared to raise questions and sought clarification on the proposed health care reform bill.

One wonders who is using Gestapo tactics on whom...