My Grandmother loves the  Biltmore Estate in Asheville N.C.

She had never seen it at Christmas time, so Saturday we took her there to see it with the decorations up.

Mind you... I have a great dislike of crowds, and I rarely go out into the public any more than I have to, but what I saw this weekend made me wonder if the leftists are right. The leftists, not their useful idiots.

The people I saw... didn't even look like they were smart enough to clothe themselves. They apparently just showed up in whatever they passed out in the night before. They had no understanding of the art and literature, or any of the references to art and literature, or common courtesy for that matter, presented at the estate. They had no idea how... or even what... to eat. Some of them obviously had no idea they were even IN public and did things such as floss their teeth in the restaurant at their table. FLOCKS of them would try to throw themselves under my car every time I attempted to back into a parking space as if they were lemmings.

It was like taking a tour with a herd of cattle, except the cattle would have been better mannered... and presumably more interesting in conversation.

I'm afraid I might be turning into a liberal.

I believe hardly any of these people could have been trusted with planning their next trip to the restroom.

They sure as hell can't be trusted with planning their retirement or insurance or healthcare. There is a need to ban transfats. These people would eat poison straight from the box if you let them.

It is no wonder we can't explain the war in Iraq to them. The best you can do is point and tell them "Saddam bad". Then all the leftists have to do is point at us and tell them "America bad". That alone is way too much information for them to process effectively.

It is sure that the vast majority of these so-called "people" should be wards of the state, and that high taxes for the productive among us is certainly nothing but noblesse oblige, only unfortunately without the privileges of rank. It is unfortunate in that it looks as though their only means of existence is if we give them enough to keep them docile, and use them kindly... keeping them fed and cared for rather like oxen or some other beast of burden.

Sadly, the lefts argument that the great majority are just too stupid to care for themselves looks to be true.