The problem with every socialist who dreams of being Mr. Scrooge is that socialists more often than not lack Dickens’s brilliance at storytelling. So, even though they aim high in their yearly attempt to cancel Christmas, because of their lack of talent they are usually about as successful as Bill Gates selling synthetic steaks. The last ones to try it are those who sit on the European Commission, that political elephants’ graveyard, now so far out on a political limb that it is difficult to distinguish when they are serious from when they are putting on some kind of joke à la The Babylon Bee. If EU founding father Konrad Adenauer were to rise from the dead, he would walk into the Berlaymont building in Brussels with a whip and do what Jesus did when the temple was overrun with merchants. Adenauer, who was an intelligent man, and perhaps foreseeing how the EU would end up, once lamented that “in view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.”
The Maltese socialist Helena Dalli holds the honor of occupying the most useless position in the entire European Commission, which is saying something because the competition is very high. Her title is “Commissioner for Equality.” A few days ago, she circulated an internal document, “Guidelines on Inclusive Communication,” asking EU officials this year not to wish people “Merry Christmas” but “Happy holidays” so as not to offend non-Christians. Her document having been brought to light by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Dalli achieved a kind of immediate success: In less than two hours, the discriminatory expression “Merry Christmas” was a trending topic all over Europe. Mrs. Dalli soon found her mailbox overflowing with thousands of Christmas cards bearing the offensive and inclusiphobic message “Merry Christmas, Helena.” Brilliant.
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