When It Comes To Hate, The Left Beats The Right, Hands Down
Harry Binswanger
11/4/13
My previous Forbes column went viral, attracting 360,000 views. I got some thoughtful objections, and I have replied to many of them in the “called out” comments section.
But I was also called a psychopath, a sociopath, a sick bastard, and “a leech on the ass of humanity.”
And in emails I was told:
“You better watch your effin back wen you leave your house!! matter of fact am pretty sure that you wont be safe inside your house either.” [sic]
“I can already hear the calls of ‘off with his head.’”
“There will be a rope and a lamp post waiting for you.”
Why? What did my “despicable” column call for? The return of slavery? Death to the Jews?
No, I called for two things: 1. a manÂ’s right to what he has earned in free exchange, and 2. honoring the great wealth-creators for what they have given us.
It was the second point that seemed to throw the Left into a rage. You can say anything on the web. You can voice the obscenity that America “had it coming” on 9/11–and no one bats an eye. You can vilify businessmen, call Goldman Sachs a “vampire squid on the face of humanity,” and even the Right remains silent. But standing up for the producers who have created our standard of living–that’s beyond the pale!
There’s a lot of hatred out there in the Angry Left, and a lot of paranoia about sinister figures and corporations who “run things” for their own evil designs. This conspiracy-theory mentality used to be associated with the Right–the vast communist conspiracy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Illuminati, the Jewish bankers. Now it’s the Left that’s conspiracy-minded.
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