Cassandra over at Villainous Company has a fun, snarky post on the “evolving” standards of the new left.  A few highlights:

This weekend as the Editorial Staff looked down our nose out our airplane window at the vast intellectual wasteland that is flyover country, we pondered the well known truth that – at least for the truly enlightened progressive – tolerance of diversity is a practice far better honored in the breach than in the observance.

At the risk of stereotyping (which of course we would never do) it’s hard to know just what to make of these frightened and irrational bitter gun-clinging racist types?

It’s not as though there is any rational basis for their frankly unhinged belief system, is there? Fortunately, we can explain what we don’t understand by labeling such mystifying thoughts “insane”, “ignorant”, or “fearful” – all without violating our own belief system! The key, really, is to put the wingnuts in their place. There used to be a nifty phrase for that… what was it? Marginalize them? Treat them as “The Other”. Of course when we do it, it’s perfectly fine because we hold the correct world view. If they did the same thing to us, it would be intolerant and wrongheaded.

Clarity on these matters is so important, don’t you think? It’s what keeps us honest.

Now that we finally have a really smart President in the Oval Office, we can stop worrying about that pesky Constitution, executive overreach, checks and balances. It’s so reassuring to know that we can finally soak those darned bumper stickers off the Volvo, too. The age of Obama rendered all that “We the People” nonsense completely irrelevant:

Question Authority? Oh honey, that’s so Bush administration. Now that the right party’s in charge, the continuation of policies once branded as dangerous signs of a power-mad Unitary Executive can be safely ignored.

Dissent as the highest form of patriotism has been replaced by unAmerican dissent, dissent as racism, dissent as insanity, and our personal favorite, dissent as “violent speech”. Ooch! Ouch! Stop beating me up with your … your… nasty, brutish words, you big bullies!…

During the Bush years, any sign that the troops didn’t have what they needed to complete the mission was touted as Presidential incompetence. Under Obama, though, personnel and equipment shortages are never the President’s fault! Come to think of it, it’s downright rude for the military to wonder how supposed to win a war in 12-18 months without the troops they asked for back in March when Obama first unveiled his strategery…

Read the whole thing.  In fairness, this is something that happens every time an opposition party is in power (where were all conservative complaints about “nation-building” in the 2002-2005 period?), but the sheer magnitude of the left’s reversal is pretty staggering.  Some of these attacks had been political posturing in the first place (the idea that the left somehow cared more about the troops’ equipment was always ridiculous and they knew it), but a lot of it seemed genuine.  Seeing them abandon some of these principles almost feels like a victory…for us.

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Matthew E. Miller can be contacted at Obilisk18@yahoo.com and at his Pawlentyesque blog.