The unintentional hilarity of the headline: Should 2020 Democrats go big or get real?
Sometimes the truth can come out in the inadvertent expressions of a headline writer. The Associated Press headline for the ‘Debate takeaways’ from last night’s Democratic extravaganza said it all: Should the 2020 Democrats go big or get real? Most likely in the din of the Leftist echo chamber obscured the unintentional humor contained therein. However, this extended itself into the early morning version of the story, AP tends to ‘revise’ its stories without notice so the joke may not be around for long. Maybe the author meant this to be a wink and a nod to the fact that socialism has always been a fraud, built upon lies and deceptions. It could also be that this was just a colloquialism for the moment. Much like a rocket just beginning to approach the apogee of it’s flight, there is an almost imperceptible deceleration of the initial enthusiasm of the left in dropping the mask concealing their true principles. They so much wanted to...