Bob Cesca writes an article in the Huff-paint-ington Post titled “ Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War Against Socialism.”  Cesca’s watching Hannity on TV talking about how socialism is upon us, he describes Hannity by saying “I was half expecting him to leap out of his chair, grab his producer by the lapels and scream something about a goblin on the wing of the airplane...”  Nice reference.  But has anyone thought that Sean Hannity might be onto something?

   Unfortunately, Bob Cesca and many on the left are like the guy in every horror movie who doesn’t heed the advice of the super hot girlfriend, who tells him not to go outside; where he’s brutally killed by Jason or Freddy, or a giant tarantula.  Bob is the cop in Gremlins that doesn’t believe that the town is being overrun by tiny yet destructive and homicidal creatures.  But guess what?   That cop finally comes around, because maybe, just maybe, there’s something to the claim.  The claim in our case is a big, scary dose of socialism. 

   But Cesca’s tone in his writing is that of an alcoholic denying that he has a problem.  Unlike the cop in Gremlins, the alcoholic never comes around, never even allows for analysis of the issues presented to him.  The alcoholic is so convinced that there is no problem, he’s gotta hit rock bottom, and sadly, some people never really do.

   Cesca also makes fun of Hannity for using provocative language.  “[Hannity] called the recovery bill, ‘a liberal hijacking of the American way of life.’ Uh-huh. Hijacking. Terrorists rather than goblins on the wing. I get it.”  I can almost hear Cesca saying “There goes those Republicans using ‘terrorism’ to scare us.”  Although Cesca commits the same act of using provocative language when describing a group of conservative pundits.

   Cesca describes Glenn Beck as saying “…that President Obama is both a socialist and a fascist -- a feat that calls to mind an old George Carlin joke about how it's physically impossible to "put your seat-back forward."  He’s wrong.  Socialism and Fascism can completely exist in the same system.  How about them Nazis?  Or formerly the National Socialist German Worker’s Party?  Nazis gained favor by exposing the “failures of democracy” and the failure of “laissez-faire capitalism” replacing it with mixtures of socialism, communism, nationalism, lots of isms.

   Cesca continues with the argument that if Republicans don’t like socialism, then stop being part of socialist programs, like a “socialized military” or “social security.”  Cesca admits that there is socialism in this country, and basically says that it’s a good thing.  This is like a cocaine dealer saying “Hey, Tylenol is a drug, and it’s not bad.  Drugs are not bad.  Now buy some cocaine.”  It’s an argument that belongs in the same group as “I told you so” and “I know you are but what am I.”

   Cesca closes with the argument that America has always been socialist, and American’s are closet socialists “…especially when they're suddenly confronted by the darker realities of free market capitalism and the destructive long-term effects of both Reaganomics and Bush Republicanism.”  But wait, Bush Republicanism, as Cesca describes earlier as “eight years of the largest government expansion in our country's history” should be considered socialist right?  So Cesca is saying that Americans turn to socialism when they’re confronted by the dark realities of socialism?  Huh?

   Socialism is coming, not your textbook/I learned it in six grade kind of socialism.  It’s gonna show up in taxes and lifestyles.  More taxes, more control over our lifestyles.  Politicians are gonna tell us how to eat so we don’t get fat, or not to smoke so we don’t look like a loser and die.  There’s an amazing surgery robot in Los Angeles that removes prostate cancer, improving survival rates, and making it a heck of a lot easier to recover.  It probably saved my dad’s life.  But guess what, with socialized medicine, do you think the government’s gonna make sure every major city has one?  No.  Will doctors send more people to this amazing new surgical procedure?  No, it’ll costs too much for our government-run insurance plans.

   Bob Cesca’s vision of Sean Hannity acting like the crazed William Shatner who thinks a goblin is trying to destroy the plane is absolutely correct.   There is a goblin on the wing, it is socialism, and just like Shatner, we’ve got to do something about it.