Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Useful Idiots

Peter has a must-read post about how the Catholic Church seems surprised that the Obama administration is more or less forcing them to violate their doctrine in the name of "health care".  Peter quite correctly points out that the Catholic Church was one of the biggest advocates of Obamacare, and so they don't really have call to be surprised that Progressives are doing what Progressives do.

I mean, the Cardinals were so sure that Obamacare would go so far and no further.  How can they be on the short end of the stick now.  And where the heck did the stick go?


Some are calling this "feed the crocodile so he eats you last".  I see it that the Cardinals were Useful Idiots - tools who saw some things that they'd like about the New Progressive World and who simply couldn't wrap their brains around the historical fact that Progressives have been sworn enemies of organized religion in general (and the Catholic Church in particular) for well over a century.

Give Progressives tons of new coercive power to do things that you like, and you're surprised that they do coercive things you don't like?  Inconceivable!

There's a message here about the GOP and their big visions, too (*cough* Patriot Act *cough*).  TSA pat downs?  I just thought you were keeping us safe from terrorists!

Inconceivable!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ron Paul, already. Jeez.

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

Must... resist....
[Fails Will save.]


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

kx59 said...

This is perfect real life example of the frog and scorpion story.

Ken said...

Another "once shamed, may never be recovered" heard from....

While I agree (with considerable regret) that the social gospel set have got on top in the Church for a long time, it's hardly monolithic. I also think we're seeing a Church leadership that is in many ways the equivalent of the silver-ponytail crowd being replaced by a generation considerably more conservative and orthodox. See Father John Zuhlsdorf's blog, or the Acton Institute.

nightfly said...

I hope so, Ken. Because this hippy-drippy pferdkaese passed off to the faithful as Catholicism is not gonna cut it, either for our spiritual well-being or our country's benefit.

TOTWTYTR said...

More rubes find out that they were taken.