The Sinister and the Distaff

The Left's recent over-reaching attack on Ann Romney as "never having worked in her life" has been "walked back," as if the sneer were not representative of them.

Simone de Beauvoir, one of the Left's darlings, said, "No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one."

These are the words of a well regarded woman, an intellectual and a "thought leader," the mistress and, in some minds, the enabler, of the seducer of damaged young woman, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who once said, "I enjoy being with a woman because I’m bored out of my mind when I have to converse in the realm of ideas.”

The Left has a lot to answer for. Their belief in the proper use of power, their confidence in their homicidal government pet, their certainty in their assessment of the human heart, their belief in mysterious forces in history--all of this has created shortages of space in the largest graveyards in the largest continents. But their evangelism and arrogance forces them to tell us what they think about the world and us. And we will have to answer for our indifference.