I wonder what Jimmy Kimmel has to say about little Alfie Evans from Britain. After all, Kimmel set himself up as sort of an advocate for American health care reform (read, Obamacare). So he surely has something to say about Alfie, right?

Let’s check his Twitter feed, shall we?

This is from Friday morning:

Comic book stores are even friendlier when you're an Avenger… #BenedictCumberbatch @DonCheadle #ElizabethOlsen @Winston_Duke @Avengers #InfinityWar @Marvel @BlastoffComics pic.twitter.com/jaiq81Aqrk

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 27, 2018

Hmmm. He’s all about The Avengers movie.

Oh, wait. A couple of days ago he hosted the Bleachers, who performed something called “Alfie’s Song.” Could it be referring to little Alfie Evans?

Um, no. This is a basic love-gone-wrong song with a screaming tenor sax solo. Not about Alfie Evans.

Well, well, it appears that the weepy late night advocate for children’s health care is strangely silent, doesn’t it?

He’s not the only celebrity, either. While Kimmel and other politicians and entertainment stars shed their tears and big bucks over Cecil the Lion, they sure don’t seem to care about a toddler in Britain, do they?

Columnist Ramesh Ponnuru, writing at Bloomberg, also asked why American liberals are strangely silent. After all, aren’t they the voice of the oppressed?

My question is: Why aren’t liberals horrified by the British government’s behavior too? Shouldn’t everyone be?

Now you may not like Piers Morgan, and you may think he’s a snobby Brit who is ignorant about our Second Amendment. Fair enough. But even Morgan is aghast at his government’s treatment of little Alfie Evans.

Let. Them. Take. Him. Home. #AlfieEvans pic.twitter.com/UkgPjJ3mll

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 26, 2018

However, some Brits are defending the decision of the National Health Service. For example, the Guardian published the comments of a palliative care doctor, who wrote:

In fact – to my enormous pride – the NHS has kept Alfie alive for nearly two years, at no cost to his family, and without any judgments concerning the value of his life.

Yet another British doctor posted an enormously long and detailed Twitter thread on why Alfie’s story “needs less opinions and more facts,” including diagrams and illustrations. The thread is far too long to publish at this blog — you can read all his posts here. However, here’s the tweet that says it all:

This isn’t “murder” or “euthanisia” or “state control”. The state kept Alfie alive for nearly 18 months, at not a penny cost to his suffering family, and we should be immensely proud of that. /28

— Dr Dominic Pimenta (@juniordrblog) April 24, 2018

And here’s the common thread between both these doctors: You silly prats, we’ve kept him alive long enough, and it didn’t cost you a penny. Be thankful!

However, it also seems that this mindset is hardwired into average British brains. Here are two more tweets from ‘Brian Benjafield,’ an anonymous Brit who claims he’s “hardworking, not a ponce, and tells it how it is.” In other words, a regular bloke.

So you're saying the highest courts in the land are wrong? The parents judgment is deluded because they live the child and are in denial ( which of course is totally understandable ) and why others are more fit to decide what's best for this poor child..

— Brian Benjafield (@Benj1960) April 27, 2018

Others are more fit to decide what’s best for this poor child.

And if that’s not chilling enough to those of us on this side of the Pond, he added this:

Experts said no such thing that's complete rubbish .The NHS are the child's guardians you can't just pick him up and walk out it's become beyond absurd now with the dad on to saying he will continue to appeal. Please stop this nonsense. I'm out

— Brian Benjafield (@Benj1960) April 26, 2018

Got that? The NHS are the child’s guardians. . . Yes, indeed, in the British mindset, children belong to the National Health Service. Not their parents, who raise them, care for them, and love them more than any government bureaucracy.

No wonder Jimmy Kimmel says nothing about little Alfie Evans. It’s because a national health care system that he would love to see in the US could cause Alfie nightmares here, too. So the great late night champion of children’s health care would prefer to stay quiet, and hope no one notices. Besides, it’s more fun to trot out the Avengers, isn’t it?