When I was way young and liked a book or movie, got all
excited about it, I was often stunned that someone didn’t like it. I just
couldn’t believe how misguided, uninformed, dumb etc. a person was that didn’t
have my taste or belief. “What’s wrong with these people”?
Of course I’ve grown up and out of that. When people ask me
about a book, movie, restaurant, I’m reluctant to say they’ll like it. I’ll
critique, but not think to push the idea that the person asking will like it. The
exception is if it’s a good friend of a long time and I know their tastes.
That’s what I see Leftists as; immature people that don’t
understand that others don’t want to live in a Statist world, top down control
of economics, class, culture. They don’t
understand or accept there are valid differences of taste and opinion. If one
doesn’t think like them there is something wrong with the person that thinks
differently.
I get frustrated and sometimes angered when Leftists are
presented with cold hard facts and refuse to accept them. Show unemployment
stats from the Labor Department that we don’t have 5% unemployment, it’s much
higher…well, how can you possibly believe that? Published emails and leaked
reports that “global warming” studies were modified to support the idea that we
humans are raising the temperature of the planet don’t change their ‘feeling’
that there is global warming. When the false statement that religion is
responsible for more deaths than any other entity, and one tallies those slaughtered by governments in just the 20th century is proof
positive of the lie, well, how could one believe that? It just doesn’t feel
right.
That slaughter was brought about primarily in Europe. They
love Statism there; the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleonic
domination by France, now the European Union. Centralized obedience to self-important
knuckleheads that leak out of ivory towers with a lust for power and a
rejection of those things that we know work. They reject what works for what
makes them and their supporters feel good. So the Left here sees Europe as superior
to the US since it ‘feels’ it is enlightened.
What ties that together is conformity. Groupthink. Europe is
good despite its bringing us World Wars, Communism, Hitlerism, Nazism, Fascism,
Stalinism, Socialism and all the rest of the Statist isms. All these claimed to
be for the people, they’ll take care of them with universal health care, family
leave, help the poor, and in fact they don’t. Claiming these perverse
ideologies are feel good thoughts somehow make them superior to people desiring
Liberty of thought and action. It feels good to support, top down, Statist conformity,
to have socialized medicine, poverty programs and all the rest. No responsibility
there, someone else is legislating that, so nothing personally has to be done.
Part of this is generational too. I came of age in the late
1960’s -1970’s. Marxist ideology ruled the day, along with sex, drugs, rock ‘n’
roll. Protest and speak against cops, corporations, capitalism, religion, and
the rest. Most of us still ended up not only working for “the man” but becoming
“the man”. That boomer ideology was brought into the institutions, weakening
the things that created the most successful civilization in history.
We have ended up crony capitalism as bad as the day when
railroads were stretching across America, or JP Morgan essentially bailing out
the government…now the government bails out banks and financial institutions. Payoffs
and payouts because a rejection of accountability, responsibility, rejection of
Christianity and the embracing of Secularism, and the resulting top down
Statism. Legislation is being passed, forced upon regular people that actually
work and produce something. Legislation now is more about values and
attitudes, enforcing intolerance and prejudices that produces conformity, rather than law that keeps people safe, structured and ordered.
Media, entertainment, education, government, business, even
Church (both Protestant and Catholic) have devolved and embraced the Leftist “if
it feels good do it” uniformity and conformity. Coming back around to my
opening, all this conformity lends itself to groupthink, that differences are
not to be tolerated, and speech must curtailed to fit the Leftist view of the
world, in all human endeavors.
Like the immature young, how can you not like what we like? How
can you not believe global warming is real, that Whites are all racist, that White
cops are running around killing unarmed black men, that Christianity is evil,
that government is good and the solution to the world’s ills? Thus the “safe
zones” on university campuses that protect the literally young from any kind of
different thought. It doesn’t feel good to have someone express a different
idea. It doesn’t feel good to be criticized. It doesn’t feel good take responsibility
for a mistake. It doesn’t feel good to be accountable.
I was once a Marxist that actually read and wrote about
Marxism, was a political and cultural Leftist, and believed in my mind of
minds, heart of hearts, this was Truth. I was a practicing, church going
Christian from childhood through teenage years. I left that, then I thought I was a free thinker. Then I realized that I only knew the world based on what people that thought like I
did said. I knew politics only by what fellow Leftists said and wrote. I knew
the “news” only by what Leftist journalists wrote. I knew Christianity only by
what Leftist/Secularists said and wrote. I returned to Christianity in my 40’s,
began to understand what works, and now because of that, I’m a free thinker. It
set me free. Set my soul free, my heart and my mind free.
At this point I understand Leftists/contemporary Liberals
can’t be convinced of anything, regardless of the realities of our world, with
provable evidence and facts. They don’t believe in a free society, a people based
republic, free thought, free expression. Liberalism is a secular religion that
is being offered and accepted as a replacement for traditions that work, Christianity and the
personal discipline, sacrifice and personal responsibility that comes with it.
With Liberalism/Leftists it’s what feels good, not what is
real and works, that passes for thought.
