Idiocy and Ignorance on the Left

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Battle of Cable Street 1936 between the fascists
and a coalition of anarchists, Zionists, and Commies.

When I left a comment on Mark Shea's blog the other day responding to his usual attack on anyone who supported Trump in the election, especially pro-life Catholics, I expected the Nazi name-calling to begin. It did. But I at least gave Shea's supporters the benefit of the doubt about their intelligence.

Not any more.

The clincher was the person who defended the Communists as "our allies" during World War II. Is she so abysmally ignorant that she doesn't know that Communist murders make the Nazis look like Girl Scouts? In the Ukraine alone, Stalin murdered by starvation 7-10 million people. And that doesn't include the gulags. Add the murders of Mao in China, Castro in Cuba, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, not to mention the Communist governments in Africa and South America -- we're talking about a range of murders in the many tens of millions. Does saying that make me a Nazi defender? Don't be ridiculous!