After torturing myself time and again, reading the Resident Idiot’s “articles,” I decided to let him go. No sense trying to poke holes into every piece of crap he frequently dishes out. But some are too good to resist; they provide comical relief. See below.

…the Left sometimes uses conservative-sounding or outmoded language. But it essentially represents modernist and egalitarian politics, committed to justice. These values are firmly rooted in the critical-scientific Enlightenment tradition. The Far Right, especially of the Hindutva variety, loathes the Enlightenment and is deeply uncomfortable with Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

True. Liberty for Stalin, Equality for Molotov & Ezhov, and Fraternity for the millions killed: Fraternity of the Dead (ok, that was a bit dramatic). And more jokes:

The Left is articulating demands which closely correspond to what ordinary people want and aspire to.

Yeah, statism for one. It would warm the RI’s Red heart to impose quotas, to have the State decide what is good for people, and best of all, it would bring the Evil Rich People down. The Evil in his words,

The people will judge the UPA not by what it does for FDI in banking and reduction of taxes on cars and airconditioners,…

Show them their place! Steal from the rich to provide for the poor. And finally, note this man’s duplicity: of all people, he cringes before beckons Sonia Gandhi “to do something.” Sonia, not Manmohan, the man who is officially entrusted with taking decisions related to policy.

If the Congress does not want to be complicit in this disastrous process, Sonia Gandhi must intervene and urgently begin course correction… This brooks no delay.

The sense of urgency that the RI displays smacks of an unofficial warning from the Communists, disguised as a column/analysis.

Wake up, Rediff.