The unstoppable left, an article by a recovering liberal

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American Thinker: The Unstoppable Left?

There is an unstoppable force that drives a person if he willingly submits.

I've seen this force a few times, most piercingly with Judy and Mike Miller (not their real names).

The Millers were the most disturbed, and disturbing, couple I have ever worked with. Mike Miller molested all three of their daughters. Each time a daughter was removed, the couple responded by having another one.

Although their behavior was monstrous, they didn't present as monsters. Mike was an affable, gangly man with a vacant stare. Judy was bubbly and effervescent. When she visited her children in our dark and airless county office, she acted as though it were a carefree day in the park.

Although I last saw this couple 25 years ago, I'll never forget them. What is burned in my mind is not just the ghastliness of their crimes. It is their ordinariness.

Mike and Judy bring to mind Hannah Arendt's phrase about the Gestapo: "the banality of evil." There was nothing about the Millers' appearance or background that was particularly unusual. If they had lived next door, they would have seemed as normal as apple pie.

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