Left of the Right

While the hip liberal left is going to class and getting John Lennon quotes tattooed on their bodies the fringe right is in the woods and the desert practicing combat maneuvers. While democratic student groups are in coffee shops discussing their thesis's the militant right is preparing their youth for battle. The educated left in this country love to parrot Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed its the only thing that ever has." Ironically they are describing their ideological adversaries on the far right. The educated left has very little desire to change anything. After all their leftist ideals are born out of privilege just as their counterparts are born from suffering and deprivation. When politics in this country degenerates into a kind of gangland street warfare as it has in so many other collapsing societies the far right toughened by their years of living on the fringe will crush the left where it really counts, the battlefield of the streets.