More dangers of indoctrination.

As we have watched the tragic tale of Cecil the lion unfold over the last few days, one almost inescapable conclusion is that the political left is (at least on certain things) so indoctrinated as to have given up any semblance of common sense.

What we have is a bunch of people attacking this dentist for engaging in an activity that was legal.  Now, it appears that there was an element of the hunt (we don't know if he knew this or not) that went beyond the bounds of legality, but as a general rule it is legal to hunt lions in Zimbabwe.  If laws were broken, then those who broke them should be punished appropriately.   Having said that.

We have a group of people marching on this guy's office threatening him with death, in some cases things like being skinned alive.   How is it that the tolerant, peace loving American left is willing to abandon thise closely held beliefs at the drop of a hat, because of one dead lion?  Oh, and if you watch the local coverage, these folks are really upset about the fact that the guy is "rich".   Class envy anyone?

So, while the lynch mobs are out in full force against the dentist let's see what they are ignoring.

1.  The unfolding Planned Parenthood selling body parts in violation of federal law.
2. The killing of 5 elephants which are much more endangered than Cecil
3.  The fact that economic growth in the US is officially "tepid", yet the administration continues to try to spin the situation otherwise, and no one questions them.
4.  The fact that the MN governor condemns this dentist while in the same breath advocating an increase in state spending to increase the fish population (so that said fish can be baited and killed much like Cecil) and to compensate a bunch of rich resort owners who might not make as much profit because the fish shortage might mean an early end to the season.
5.  The fact that these people are more concerned about 1 lion, than they are about the economic conditions in Africa generally and Zimbabwe specifically that might motivate the native guides to violate the law in search of economic gain.
6.  The fact that the witch hunt against the dentist is going to put any number of other people out of work, you know the ones who aren't "rich" but actually make the office function.
7.   How hypocritical is it to threaten death to this hunter, then heading out the Burger King for a Whopper.   I hate to bring this up, but that cow didn't go willingly.
8.  The AFL-CIO in CA attempting to get an exemption for their members to the new minimum wages that they spent millions of dollars campaigning for.
9.  The graduation rates for minorities (as well as the ability of students to read at grade level) of both the Minneapolis and Saint Paul school districts are abysmal.  But we see no protests about that.

It just mystifies me that all these sheep jump on whatever Facebook or Twitter bandwagon is trending and actually think that liking a post, forwarding a tweet, or commenting is actually doing anything real.    These folks just buy in and repeat whatever the eruption du jour is without even taking the time to think it through.

Personally the thought of hunting has never appealed to me, and the though of simply shooting anything as a trophy is even less appealing.   But, as long as these things are legal and done within the scope of local laws all stuff like this does is to focus attention on a fake crisis, while allowing these supposedly caring compassionate people to ignore real crises that are out there.     There is a degree of political blind loyalty at play as well, it is all to obvious that the American political left is going to ignore and actively try to bury the PP story because maintaining and expanding access to abortion is critical to their political future and to do anything to upset the narrative would be unthinkable.  

In the end what we have is the angry lynch mob that is willing to kill a guy because he shot a lion, is willing to support the continued taxpayer funding of PP even though they are in clear violation of federal law.

It seems as though indoctrination can indeed be a bad thing.