The only true evil the modern Left recognizes is “Fascism” or “Nazism”. The only criminals are fascists and Nazis. To be labeled a fascist is to be evil, and to be evil is to be a fascist.
In other words, these words have been fully denuded of meaning, as have the principles underlying them. They mean nothing, and they mean nothing because the people using them believe nothing.
Here is the thing: the Left is quite willing to tolerate fascist BEHAVIOR, as long as it is done under the name of something else. Muslims can persecute, torture, kill and exile Christians, and that is fine because within the rubric of multiculturalism, we can’t judge them.
Children can dress themselves up in matching uniforms, threaten and commit violence in the streets against innocent people, for no reason, and it is forgiven as being ANTI all the things they hate.
It is acceptable to hate, as long as it is in the name of opposing hate.
For my part, I don’t understand why intelligent people–otherwise intelligent people, whose opinions you would value on most topics–fall for this lunacy, this confusion.
We cannot help but feel what we feel, but in a great many cases what we feel is in reaction to what we think. Politics is almost entirely an abstract enterprise. 99.9999% of the people who hate Trump have never met him. Something like 99% have never tried to have a sober, face to face conversation with a Trump supporter. To be sure, they have yelled at us on occasion on the internet, and given up when their yelling did not work, and we somehow, for reasons they can’t fathom, but which must be evil, failed to immediately accede to their poorly constructed and factually ignorant views.
I forget who said “all that evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing”, but it really needs to be amended to include an alternative version: “evil succeeds best when good people support it.”, and “All that is necessary for good people to support evil is a successful lie, coupled with principled incomprehension.”
When you boil the philosophy of the Left down, there is none. There is no structure. There is nothing left when the propaganda organs stop talking. There is no means of recognizing up and down, right or left. It is all constructed in opposition, literally, to everything which has historically worked, to culture as it has evolved, to political institutions as they have evolved.
And at its root it consists in the core demand that whatever is, if it is in any way imperfect, must be torn down and replaced. By what, they cannot say. How, other than a dictatorship, they cannot say. In the name of what alternative principles, they cannot say. Why this would be better–particularly when the alternative, historically, has always been worse–they cannot say. This is all concealed with lies, half truths, evasions, and violent attacks on their detractors.
Leftism is a mental illness. It is also an emotional, intellectual, social, and cultural illness. It is a cancer, a metastasizing mistake, an abomination, a repetition of everything that is wrong and evil in the history of humankind.
Good people, if they want to warrant this self understanding, have to THINK. Fucking THINK. Pay attention, see where the problems are, or are likely to be. Educate yourself. Read history and ponder it. Why do all iterations of Communism, whatever they call themselves, always result in control by a small oligarchy? Why do human rights wither away?