Our Government Shut-Down and the "Wisdom" of a film called Animal House.

For the Modern-Day Left ideology not actual outcomes, matter.

By Greg Rabidoux

John "Bluto" Blutarsky, played by the late John Belushi, asks a key question of his fellow uninformed frat boys at a key moment in the classic 1978 film. "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" He looks around for emotional support as he tries to rally his fellow frat boys to do something. Anything. They look back at him glumly and dispirited, still stinging from the news that they all just got expelled from college and lost their beloved "Animal House" for terrible grades and worse behavior. Only one of his mates quietly asks, "The Germans?" But he is told to ignore the factual error because "He (Bluto) is on a roll."

The Democrats these days seem to be an even-larger, noisier, more rage-fueled Bluto. Instead of keg beer the Left is drunk with lustful urges for power. And Bluto's own answer to his question, "Hell, No, nothing is over until we decide it is," seems to be the Left's response when confronted with the facts and policy pain caused by their refusal to pass a clean, continuing budgetary resolution to open up the Government.

And the shut-down won't end until they decide it is (time). And they won't until the Marxist radicals who now control their Party allow them (The Senate Democrats) to do so.

Will it come after Zohran Mamdani, the radical Socialist who supports global intifada and lots of free stuff for all becomes the next Mayor of NYC? Maybe.

Will it come when Palestinian extremist and terrorist-linked leader Linda Sarsour, a key power behind Mamdani's rise from unknown 29 year-old State Assemblyman to Mayor decides it is? Maybe.

Or, will the shut-down end when too many key Democrat candidates start squealing from painful polling about the upcoming midterm elections? More likely. Power not policy, ideology not outcome rules the modern-day Left these days.

In fact, the more their policies fail, whether it is open borders, reckless taxation and spending, coddling criminals, cashless bail, subsidized health care benefits to illegal immigrants, out of control debt, sanctuary cities that protect the worst of the worst, allowing biological males in women's sports and women's locker rooms, just to name a few, the faster the Left seems to morph into an even larger, loud, rage-fueled Blutarsky. "Hell, No, we won't admit defeat or failure." Simply turn up the volume of our "We hate Trump" message to our loyalists and toss out more "F-bombs" because our pollsters say that we sound tough when we do that, just ask Jasmine.

Look, I get it. Despite George Washington's wise admonishment about blind partisanship which, especially with Democrats, puts party loyalty above national unity or interest, political parties and politicians all covet power. In fact, they lust after it with a kind of blindness and singlemindedness that Eric Swalwell must feel when he covets treasonous intimacy with the Chinese spy Fang-Fang.

But at some point, does it ever matter to them or their supporters that their policy ideas simply have not worked? Or that their ideas which flow from their rigid Marxist ideology have not ever worked, at any time in any place throughout any point in civilized history?

No. It does not seem to matter. If it did, Barack Obama would not be imploring voters in Virginia to ignore the black female candidate with common sense and vote for the mediocre white candidate instead. He would not also be embracing the AG candidate Jay Jones who expressed his wish that his political opponent be shot with 2 bullets and his children die in his wife's arms. Whatever happened to "when they go low, we go high?"

And if facts and outcomes mattered on the Left then it wouldn't just be Democrat Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) sounding the alarm about the rise of Marxist/Communist extremism in his own party. But they don't. So, like Bluto, ignorance is embraced and past outcomes dismissed.

In Animal House this all led to a chaotic, epic destruction of a community spirit parade. In the real-world the Left's behavior and past terrible policy grades just leads to more costly damage and more failure, all of which could have been avoided.