Jay Nordlinger’s love of serfdom and servants

Over at National Review, Jay Nordlinger, great New York Sun music critic and not very smart about politics and the economy Fun-E Blogger, writes:

Wanted to share a note that made me smile — maybe it will you, too. A reader wrote in response to an item I have in today’s Impromptus about personal wealth and personal politics. He said, “Fifty-five years ago, my New Deal dad said of some of his friends, ‘I never knew a Communist who was good to his maid.’”

Perfect. And it reminded me of an old line, which I learned — and learned the truth of — long ago: “A Marxist is someone who loves humanity in groups of 1 million or more.”

via Are You Good to Your Maid? – Jay Nordlinger – The Corner on National Review Online.

I mean, seriously, Jay. Someone paid you to write this? Isn’t there a new chamber music group playing somewhere in town that you could actually write something insightful about?

The reason that some dude’s Dad didn’t know a Communist who was good to his maid was because the maid went to medical school in St. Petersburg, then known as Stalingrad, because she turned out to be a lot smarter than the humble people she was born into would appear to have been.

Thus the Communist didn’t have a maid that he could be good to.

The end.