The Left's Boundless Rage

I read this piece over at the American Thinker yesterday, and determined to do a post on it, but time got away from me. We are preparing for a party, you see. Family always comes first.

Interestingly, the article, entitled The End Game of the Left by Andrew Thomas also revolves around a family gathering. In this case, Mr. Thomas and his wife visited their daughter and her boyfriend in Brooklyn, NY. The boyfriend, it seems, is an radical leftists.

Things went well up until Sunday afternoon, when we were both seated on the couch benignly watching a football game on his 60" television screen. During a commercial break, there was a news announcement concerning another New York City tax increase. Before I could catch myself, I blurted out the Ten Years After lyric at the top of this article.

It was as though I had hit his "ON" button. He immediately jumped off the couch and started screaming, "That's RIGHT! That's EXACTLY RIGHT!"

I replied, "But shouldn't the lyric be "Til there are no poor no more'? Isn't that true social justice?"

He stated with utmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world's misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible.

"Then you want everyone to live in poverty?" I queried.

"Absolutely," he replied.

Sometimes I think I have heard it all, but this left me stunned. Before we could go on, my wife and daughter swooped in and broke up the mêlée.

Yeah, read the quoted portion again several times. I had to. And notice the irony of a fairly well off young man watching football on a 60" television screen.

Call me stupid, or dense, but I had never before put it together like this. I have often thought, and said to my wife at times, that if this policy or that, were implemented, we would all be living in grass huts and throwing flint tipped spears. I had assumed that advocating such policies was a negotiating technique in which they hoped to have the other side compromise somewhere closer to their side, or that their flawed understanding of the way things work made the policies advocated actually seem rational. But to realize that the left so hates and abhors the successful in this society that they are willing to themselves give up the benefits of civilization if only their hated enemy is brought low too, was amazing. This kind of self destructiveness is stunning. Moreover, it explains so much, but not all, I think.

I don't think it is quite that simple. There appears to be an abundance of negative emotion in the leftist mind, but that is only part of the equation. Almost everyone, including the leftist, believes that they are basically good and decent human beings. This is true among the religious and atheists, and even thieves and murderers. I believe that in order to emotionally reconcile inherently "evil" feelings of hatred toward others, the leftist embraces "social justice" as a pious compensation.

The original concept of social justice was envisioned as a virtuous governmental function, protecting the downtrodden and disadvantaged from a heartless society. As a form of coerced charity through taxation, the government decides what is just and provides for the "common welfare."

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As a result of this vagueness of definition, the foundation of hatred within the leftist mind has perverted the original intent of social justice. Babies must be aborted, grandma must be killed, and the infirm must be euthanized, all for the "common welfare." How does this reconcile with the concept of using the wealth of society to champion the poor and helpless? "Justice" is no longer part of the equation. It has devolved into social engineering and tinkering without a heart and soul. Through the twisted filter of hatred, social justice has become a force for evil.

Well, so much for the followers of Leftism, the "useful idiots" as Lenin referred to them. Their hatred of the "rich" is used to justify taking the property of the successful, and giving it to those who help to get them elected, all to the applause of the MSM. But what about the wealthy Leftists, Corporations, and the elected Leftists themselves? They, it seems, are playing a cynical game:

By enflaming hatred of the wealthy (and by extension, capitalism), the poweratti can brandish social justice as a weapon to seize complete control of government and essentially enslave the populace. How ironic that this hatred should result in extending their power and privilege!

In the leftist utopia of social justice, wealth is no longer created. The capitalist goose that laid the golden eggs is spread like pâté. Income and property are confiscated, housing and employment are assigned, as in Cuba and Venezuela. Scientific advancement and medical breakthroughs are ground to a halt, as in the old Soviet Union where technology was frozen in the 1950s. Entrepreneurship, personal advancement, and wealth creation are violently quashed, as in the Chinese Cultural Revolution under Mao Tse Tung. Hunger, disease, and death become familiar houseguests, as in all repressive regimes.

So there you have it. That is what we have to look forward to unless this government is stopped. And as I noted yesterday, both political parties are steering us the same direction down the road, but one will get us there faster. As I said yesterday, the only hope is a take over of the Republican party by true conservatives. There is no time to build a third party now, but that should ultimately perhaps be our goal.