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Victor C. Bolles

Progressivism Confronts Human Nature

On Wednesday morning, November 29, 2017 NBC News announced the immediate termination of long-time Today host Matt Lauer for “inappropriate sexual behavior”. What type of inappropriate sexual behavior Lauer committed in not yet known but I would not be surprised to learn that a book deal was in the works.


When right wing icons such as Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes are branded as sexual predators the left-wing press (also known as the Mainstream Media) are quick to condemn them with little or no proof. Progressives were aghast when Judge Roy Moore won the Republican primary to replace Jeff Sessions in the Senate but were tickled pink (their favorite color) when they learned of his alleged penchant for young girls (even though a recent visit with relations in the South revealed that a certain person’s grandmother got married at the age of 13).


But when the sexual predators turn out to be progressive icons like Harvey Weinstein or a card-carrying member of the media elite like Lauer progressives are confused and distraught. In their simplified world they are the good guys. But good guys are as human as anybody else. I mean OMG. As I write this piece, the World Wide Web newsfeed is telling me that Minnesota Public Radio has fired Garrison Keillor over “allegations of inappropriate behavior” (again undefined).

I mean you can’t get much more nice guy than Garrison Keillor (a life-long Democrat and Hillary supporter).


The Founding Fathers understood the nature of man and realized that the Hobbesian all-powerful monarch personified by George III can do much evil when seduced by virtually unlimited power. They further realized that the new democratic nation they were creating would give certain men great power and that this power could be easily abused. So they drafted a constitution that included checks and balances against the accumulation of power by a single person or small group of people. These checks and balances make democracy a very messy business. Power is diffuse and even holding both houses of Co