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(it's Sandy Duncan as Peter Pan in the 1979 Broadway revival)
As a kid, I saw the television and the stage versions of the
musical Peter Pan. One of the memorable songs is “Never Never Land.” The
opening lyric is
I have a place where dreams are born,
And time is never planned.
It's not on any chart,
You must find it with your heart.
Never Never Land.
And then:
You'll have a treasure if you stay
there,
More precious far than gold.
For once you have found your way there,
You can never, never grow old.
An essay at American Thinker by Deana Chadwell was featured on the Lucianne
aggregator yesterday. It is indeed a must-read, and its title is “The Left's
Neverland.” It is a perceptive, if scary take on the emotional ideology of today’s
liberal, especially young liberals. The essay begins:
I hear more and more frequently
concerns about an impending civil war. It is certain that something momentous
is taking place; the signs are all around us, but I’m not at all sure that
the something will turn out to be two sides of the same country
warring over principles, like the Civil War, which was mainly about slavery and
states’ rights. Now, we’re up to our nose-piercings in politically polarizing
problems and the leftist contingent of the country doesn’t even like America
anymore. If we come to open warfare, it will be as two separate nations
battling it out. Over what? Not over policies, not over territory, not even
over moral issues. We will be fighting over reality.
The left, which I used to see as
misguided but mostly benign, has built for itself -- because it knows it can’t
convince Americans to throw away freedom -- a make-believe utopian country. It
has constructed, ex nihilo, a
nation that has no borders, no laws, no specific language, and no recognizable
morality. When Barrack Obama said he wanted to “fundamentally change” America,
he wasn’t bluffing. When he’d stick out his chin and say, ”That’s not who we
are,” he wasn’t talking about us; he was talking about the citizens of his
make-believe land which I’ll name “Neverland.”
The name is suitable in many ways.
In the first place, it isn’t real and never will be.
The full article is here. Highly recommended.
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