Stop Debating With Leftists

 I don't have a lot of time today, so I will start with a post at the American Thinker yesterday by Robert Arvay entitled The dangers of arguing with a leftist. Arvay starts the post by relating talking to a nice woman who disputed her bill. He went through the bill line by line, added it up with her ascent to each step and showed her that it was correct. But as he concluded, she was not persuadable. No number of facts, or mathematics was going to change her "feeling" that the charge was too much. So, it is with leftists. Facts and logic will not sway such people.

It was then that I understood the reality of the situation. The nice lady had never been persuadable from the beginning. Facts meant nothing to her. The only thing that meant anything to her was her “feeling.” The stated balance due just did not feel right to her, end of discussion.

When internet discussions became a popular activity in the late 1990s, I had my first in-depth discussions and debates with leftists. It was there that I discovered that there were people who could not fathom why conservatives (such as myself) hold the beliefs we do. How, they would ask, could anyone possibly be so coldhearted as to approve of the death penalty for convicted murderers, who had been afforded every right to defend themselves? But they could not see their hypocrisy in putting to death an innocent fetal child who was afforded no rights at all.

Only after much interchange of messages, on many subjects, did I begin to realize that leftists are blind to what we consider obvious, logical certainties. Their beliefs are, to them, axioms never to be questioned. Anyone who disagrees with them must be either abysmally stupid or, worse, consummately evil.

I have often felt that the things I write here fit the pattern of "singing to the choir." And in fact, it turns out to be true. But at the same time, the choir needs to be reminded that their positions are reasonable, and that others have the same ideas. They cannot be left feeling surrounded and all alone.  Someone needs to say what they are thinking out loud.  The choir would not get this from the world. Indeed, the world does all it can to censor us and shut us down. But the time for talking and debate has long past. We must take action on our beliefs, the world be damned, and of course, it will be.

We must continue to make fact-based arguments from reason, endeavoring to rescue at least the (hopefully) ten good men in Sodom from the destruction they are bringing down on us all — but in doing so, we must not be unduly disappointed when the great majority remain mired in their folly.

It’s in the marrow of their bones.

Just so.