If you were a little surprised that the MSM seemed to regard the late Qassam Soleimani as a “revered” figure and poetry reader, and were shocked, shocked that President Trump would Do Something about an Iran-backed attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, I have an answer.

Our Democratic friends do not want to fight a two-front war. They understand that they cannot both “fundamentally transform” America and teach the mullahs a lesson. Their war is a war on America’s Commoners, ordinary people who obey the law, go to work, and follow the rules. That is why they were eager, in Obama’s time, to appease Iran. What matter Iran when there are racist sexist dragons to slay right here at home!

My point is that, whatever government is doing, it is effectively drafting the American people as the foot-soldiers in its war. Democrats draft us into their war to end oppression and injustice. And when those foot-soldiers get wounded and disabled, well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. Case in point, this American wounded in the war for “affordable housing:”

“I worked for a couple of savings institutions as VP and R/E Loan Center Manager for a couple of different states at one point.  I was there when Community Reinvestment Act rules said that we should begin handing out "no down" and even loans in excess of 100% (money over and above the mortgage for repairs and rehab).  Documentation for loans that were sometimes north of $1 million might be supported by little more than a bunch of utility bills.  That's how crazy it got in the fevered market of Southern California.  Many of my fellow Center Managers balked, but those who balked too loudly were shown the door.  We knew it was crazy.  And, when the entire thing came tumbling down, recession hit, and many of us were without jobs for years, it was our houses that went back in foreclosure, once savings and even 401(k) accounts were depleted.

“I'm still angry about it.  But, I have a nice little home out in a red state, no debts, and enough from my SS check to pay the mortgage, the utilities, the food costs, with enough left over for the handy little semi-auto tool I may have to use to defend myself, when they come for the rest.”

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! We evolved educated ones were just fighting the injustice of redlining! Advocating for “affordable housing!” Nobody told us that those “greedy bankers” would screw the whole thing up!

Yeah. What were those greedy bankers supposed to do? Disobey the CRA regulators and lose their jobs? Or obey the regulators and lose their jobs later?

How many Commoner foot-soldiers have lost their jobs and their houses and their savings down the years, so that Educated Gentry could feel good about themselves and write self-congratulatory op-eds in the establishment media?

Never mind about the law of “unanticipated consequences.” I am talking about lives ruined and savings wiped out. And you did it!

Really, the political activist community doesn’t think about this, because they have made their quest for a just world for the victims into a religion, that creates meaningful lives for the Educated Gentry with other peoples’ money and lives.

I have a blazing new vision of how to make the world work. So listen up, you geniuses.

Before you geniuses do anything on the war front, or the administrative front or the justice front or the Save the Planet front, think about what it will mean to the ordinary Commoners when it all goes wrong.

And it will go wrong. True genius is fixing the plan gone wrong, because no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

What will your grand plan mean in Commoner lives lost in a foreign land? What will it mean in mean-spirited regulation and compulsion of Commoners right here at home? What will it mean in straight-up injustice to Commoners? What will it mean in the ability of Commoners to travel across town in an SUV or across the world in a jet plane?

What will it mean in the simple ability of Commoners to work, marry, start a family, own a home, flourish, and leave a little something for their children?

The purpose of the world is not meaningful lives for Educated Gentry, although that would be nice.

The purpose of the world is not to rescue helpless victims from an eternity of marginalization and oppression, although that would be nice.

No, the purpose of the world, the human world, is for humans, ordinary human Commoners, to wive and thrive, and try not to screw up and make it difficult for the next generation to wive and thrive in their turn.

I’m afraid that our Democratic friends need to learn this the hard way.

Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.