Obfuscation

By Arnold Ahlert
As an older American, one of the most clarifying moments I remember was the transition from the Carter administration to the Reagan administration with respect to the USSR. Carter embraced the typical liberal mindset of the times, the idea that, although the U.S. and the USSR had different systems, both were “equally deserving of respect.” Reagan? He called the Iron Curtain, Communist thugs exactly what they were: an “evil empire.” Perhaps nothing both infuriates and terrifies progressives more than clarity, especially when that clarity illustrates the utter bankruptcy of their ideology. To wit:
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