The Left hates this country and wants it to be reclaimed by Marxist economics, Jacobin-like purges of “elitists” who don’t bend the knee to political correctness, and social engineering to enforce racial and ethnic quotas. As always, it doesn’t want to solve problems, but to bring on crisis after crisis until the final collapse, so that a new, visionary society can be built atop the ruins of the old one. The more sand in the gears, the better!

Thanks to the hard Left’s strong influence over the Liberal Establishment, we wait until every problem has only tough and controversial solutions before we tackle them.

We don’t stop illegal immigrants at the border; we wait until there are 20 million of them in the country, and any serious effort to undo the damage can be derided as racism.

We don’t take a stand against Muslim immigration, but wait till there are Muslim “communities” who will vigorously protest any counter-terrorist operations that are likely to work. And a spineless bureaucracy takes the path of least resistance by treating all airplane passengers as equally likely to be terrorists.

We seem to have forgotten the proverb about the relative weights of prevention and cure.