The True Nature of Leftists

 I have written a number of times on the horrors of life under a socialist/communist regime (there is no real difference between the two.)  I remember Krushchev to Breznev all the way to Gorbechev.  I have read about the gulags where political prisoners were forced to work themselves to death.  I remember Mao and his "great leap forward."  I remember Casto and the Cuban revolution.  And then there was Pol Pot who brought misery on the Cambodians.  I read about all these places, but I never lived under one of them.  And of course, I have read many tales of people who escaped from communist rule.  Their stories are hair raising. Some of them risked life and limb to taste a little freedom.

And then there is Karl Marx, the "father" of all this suffering.  I read his Communist Manifesto as a teen. I noted then that it ignored human nature.  Each time a new communist regime took power, there was the belief that this time a new man would replace the old.  But human nature has not changed during all of recorded history.  

It is a bit late, since J. B. Shurk's article was published in the American Thinker on October 26, 2026, but it seems time to review it now, so you know what to expect as the Democrats take control of the House and Senate, and many governors and state legislatures.  It will not be pretty.  You can find Shurk's article at Why Leftist Won't Let Us Live

Why must leftists conquer entire nations? Why do they get so angry at anyone who resists their ideology? Why can’t they just build a new nation filled entirely with fellow leftists?

It really shouldn’t be this difficult for Marxist-socialists, communists, “green energy” fanatics, “diversity, inclusion, and equity” cultists, and bureaucracy-worshiping globalists to build a regulatory paradise based on the “woke” commandments of their secular faith.

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With all these institutional forces at their disposal, it is a wonder why they can’t seem to seal the deal. How can you control the news, the universities, “woke” capital, the NGO network, the permanent government bureaucracy, and all the international agencies and not have already rebranded the United States as the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” or the “People’s Republic of America”? It’s embarrassing, really.

At the end of the day, there are just too many members of society who possess a modicum of common sense and refuse to buy what the commies are selling.

I have noted before that the poverty, misery, the shortages of the most common staples of life is endemic to communist regimes everywhere. In those regimes, America stands as a rebuke to the incompetence of their leaders. As a result, nobody is coming in, and many want to leave.

Leftism is, first and foremost, an ideology of grievance. Its devotees don’t have principles. They have targets. They tell their minions whom to blame for their miseries and failures. They encourage their brainwashed followers to steal what they want and to burn everything else down. As is currently visible amid the ruins of war-torn France, leftism is destruction.

That is why leftists can’t just relocate en masse to Canada or carve out a new nation in some scarcely settled part of Africa, South America, Australia, or Asia. Leftism doesn’t build; it takes. It doesn’t inspire; it blames. Without an “oppressor” to vilify, leftism devours itself. Leftism is philosophical cannibalism.

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But peaceful separation is impossible because leftists cannot permit jurisdictions outside of their control to succeed. When free societies prosper, Marxist-socialist and communist societies are exposed as authoritarian, joyless, poor, and weak. Leftism is so at odds with human nature that its proponents cannot allow those they enslave to witness a reality free from misery.

Otherwise, leftism’s enslaved masses will risk their lives to climb over walls, trek through mountains, or cross oceans just to feel what it is like to be free. In the Soviet Union and East Germany, the communists built walls, not to keep illegal immigrants out, but rather to keep unhappy citizens in. Nobody breaks into the leftist “paradises” of communist Cuba or China; millions, however, have fled communist regimes. People escape from leftism and run toward freedom.

I encourage all gentle readers to check out J. B. Shurk's article, and to share it with friends and family. This stuff used to be taught in schools, but I understand now they are teaching the glories of socialism. It is not glorious, or kind. It is in fact a return to the ancient ways of dictators and strongmen. As the globalists like to say, you will have nothing and you will be happy (or else...) While it is true that we need to remain gentlemen and ladies, remember that gentlemen always carried a sword. Keep your powder dry.