Subject: Re: Matt Taibbi on The Real Threat
I suspect that has more to do with their self - image than anything else. After all how can you be an brave, virtuous, sophisticated, intellectually and morally superior, defender of the Gospel according to Obama, if the rest of the world ISN’T ‘Deliverance All The Way Down”?

The modern left is in constant need of an opponent that is not just an immediate threat to everything they claim to hold dear, but also weak, disorganized, and preferably fictional so that their self-designated moral crusades will be completely cost free. That’s why they are always willing to “resist” and rally against political movements that were defeated decades, if not centuries ago. They will cheerfully go into battle against long dead Nazis and barely remembered Confederate Heroes, but will fold like a house of cards when faced with a real threat, like Islamic Terrorism, ISIS, or Hamas… because look what happened to Theo Van Gogh!!

Resistance Without Cost is a central tenant of the modern leftist ethos. It's why you see so many places proclaim themselves "Sanctuary cities" but recoil when faced with the consequences.