I'm sure most people are familiar with the kid, walking up and down the touchline behind the coach, constantly asking, 'can I go on yet, can I go on yet?' Eventually the coach gives in and puts the kid on. He is useless (which is why he wasn't playing before) and flails about pointlessly, taking up a position on the pitch and very possibly allowing the other team through to score.
But the embarrassment for him is limited to those present. To everyone who wasn't there he is known as a star. His footballing talents they understand are prodigious and his team mates hold him in awe. His view of the game is spectacular, he is talented in spacial awareness. His ball control and spot kicking are legendary. Because he has told them so.
Welcome to the way the Left operate. I caught a little bit of a Radio 2 programme where a woman was ranting wildly about things Margaret Thatcher was apparently responsible for. It came, evident from the slight check in her outbursts, as a surprise that the coal mines were in decline before Thatcher came to power. (She was outraged at the suggestion that the Unions were mainly responsible, feeling this palpable fact was a slur on Unions that 'help the working man'). She didn't seem to need to scream about Wilson, during whose tenure more pits were closed than under Thatcher.
This woman and so many like her think the way they do because the Left 'kid' shouts about how bad those he opposes are, knowing that the majority of people won't know enough to disagree or bother to check. Of course, she may have been one of the shouters, but usually it is someone who has no idea what they are talking about, but feel the nicer option would be what the Marxist says. If they viewed him more like the chap with a bag of sweets trying to tempt a child into a car, they would be approaching the Marxist more accurately.
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