If the Left And The Press Were Hostile Aliens ... [how would you know?]

If we were invaded by aliens who hated all of humanity, anything promising prosperity and advancement to the human race, and bore a particular hatred for the United States of America and its prosperity and well-being, how would we be able to tell?

More importantly, how would we be able to tell we haven't been?

I’m old enough that I remember when the economic boom of the 80s got transformed by the press into “a decade of greed” of which we were all supposed to repent, as though a rising tide that lifted all boats after the morass of the seventies were a bad thing, for which we should somehow feel guilty.

But that was long ago, and some of you might not remember it, just like you might not remember that the supposed coming global cooling they taught in the seventies had the exact same origin – bad, polluting humans, and lots of them – and the same cure – send everyone back to the dark ages and kill most of the world population – as the supposed global warming doom.

However, it should not have escaped anyone’s notice that the press seems to be against anything that ensures the peace and prosperity of the US.

Take for instance the tax bill that caused fits and histrionics among all my friends. They screamed and threatened to hold their breaths because, horror of horrors, the government might not take as much of our money as it has the last several years.

I fail to see the problem with this, and no, I don’t believe the crazy idea that people will be dying on the streets because they’re no longer forced to pay towards the Obamacare boondoggle.

But what really astonished me were the claims that the President is very bad at foreign policy, because … other nations aren’t happy with our tax bill.....

It’s almost as though everything the left and the press – yes, redundant again – warns us against are things that are to our benefit, and the things that they push us towards are things that would hurt us. (Which incidentally explains the Obama years.)

In fact, if the left and the press had been taken over by aliens hostile to the US which is the last best hope of humankind, how could we tell the difference from the current state of affairs?

I don’t know. And I bet neither do you.