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Leftists are all in on exactly the wrong way to go
American Thinker ^ | 13 Nov, 2022 | Eric Utter

Posted on 11/13/2022 5:42:32 AM PST by MtnClimber

And not just financially or in matters of law. No, this wrongness cuts much deeper.

Many on the left want to destroy anything old, historic or traditional, including statues, buildings, governments, and morality. They revel in tearing down people, standards, and ideas and are incapable of building anything or governing themselves...let alone anyone else. On occasion, they will seek to replace what they erase, substituting Baphomet or Beelzebub for Jesus Christ, for example.

These modern anarchists, though anything but philosophers, ironically piggyback on the past work of white men such as Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and other existentialists.

Sartre cleverly suggested that people are not like things (such as rocks or can-openers), which is why he used the term "no-thing-ness" to refer to the kind of being that people are. Unlike things, he said, humans do not have an intrinsic essence. A can-opener, for example, has an essence that was ascribed to it before it even existed. A designer created that object for the sake of opening cans. In this way, we can say that its essence preceded its existence. But according to Sartre, we are not designed by a God; therefore, we are unlike things. Hence "no-thing-ness."

And, since there is no designer, there is no intrinsic essence of human life, no "human nature," nothing that we are supposed to be. Therefore, states Sartre, we must invent our own purpose, or "essence." Whereas a can-opener's essence precedes its existence, the opposite is true for us. We exist first, and then we must create our essence later. This "fact" led Sartre to proclaim that we are "condemned to be free." This freedom in turn means that we are responsible for our lives, causing us to experience feelings of anxiety or despair.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 11/13/2022 5:42:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
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The leftist mind sure is a destructive thing.


2 posted on 11/13/2022 5:42:42 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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That smirck they all have when they getting around to admitting what theybdid, they meant to.

That’s when they confirm that they are evil human beings.


3 posted on 11/13/2022 5:52:21 AM PST by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an ele, ctric car.)
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To: MtnClimber
Many on the left want to destroy anything old, historic or traditional, including statues, buildings, governments, and morality.

Destroy morality. The others follow.

4 posted on 11/13/2022 5:55:42 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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“On occasion, they will seek to replace what they erase, substituting Baphomet or Beelzebub for Jesus Christ, for example”

Their Baphomet or Beelzebub is climate change........but really that’s just a distraction for the real agenda......to have complete control of people.

Covid turned out to be a test to see how compliant people would be.....or not be.

Now that there is a baseline on that I suspect control will ramp up.

For those who don’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ, today is Sunday......a great opportunity to ask Jesus into your life.

It is without a shadow of a doubt the best decision I ever made.

Have a blessed day.


5 posted on 11/13/2022 5:58:39 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: MtnClimber
Well, after reading through THIS (reddit) bunch of slop, it appears that the kids of today are taught the definitions are the opposite than they should be (communism/capitalism).

They honestly don't have a clue.
6 posted on 11/13/2022 5:59:36 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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Displaying the fruit of being turned over to depraved minds and taking that into public policy, so, yeah, the Democrats are on the wrong road, not just going the wrong way.


7 posted on 11/13/2022 5:59:54 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: V_TWIN

Amen 🙏!!!!


8 posted on 11/13/2022 6:04:10 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: MtnClimber

“Leftists are all in on exactly the wrong way to go.”

Aw, ya think? Iconoclasts, one and all.

Icons are the enemy. They make people think of a better time.


9 posted on 11/13/2022 6:06:53 AM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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10 posted on 11/13/2022 6:07:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Too bad there isn’t a party who’ll oppose them.


11 posted on 11/13/2022 6:46:45 AM PST by skeeter
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"The trouble with our liberal friends is not ignorance, it's just that they know so much that is not so."

 - Ronald Reagan.

12 posted on 11/13/2022 7:21:06 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Leftists are all in on exactly the wrong way to go.

Not if there communists Karl Marx taps box.


13 posted on 11/13/2022 7:21:59 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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14 posted on 11/13/2022 7:37:42 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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Very good philosophy, which is why it will be completely lost on any leftist who happens across it.

I intend to write an essay that will hit them where they live.


15 posted on 11/13/2022 7:39:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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And, since there is no designer, there is no intrinsic essence of human life, no "human nature," nothing that we are supposed to be.

So why does this inspire fanatical "altruistic" crusades? Seems like it would do the opposite.

16 posted on 11/13/2022 7:39:53 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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Many on the left want to destroy anything old, historic or traditional, including statues, buildings, governments, and morality. They revel in tearing down people, standards, and ideas and are incapable of building anything or governing themselves...let alone anyone else. On occasion, they will seek to replace what they erase, substituting Baphomet or Beelzebub for Jesus Christ, for example.

And substituting a democracy—Our Democracy—for our constitutional republic on the way to a full socialist state. The left hasn't been tearing down institutions from voting to sports to gender simply because they're being politically correct. They have an endgame and that is replacing what's left of our constitutional republic which is so much easier when you have no institutions standing.

17 posted on 11/13/2022 7:40:50 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.They have an endgame and that's at)
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Does anyone think that Biden and Pelosi read or care about philosophy?

They care about money.

Money gets them things they want.

If they could just take the things they want, they would do it that way.


18 posted on 11/13/2022 7:44:55 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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No, they are perfectly correct. They want power and you dead. It is that simple and they have won.


19 posted on 11/13/2022 8:09:28 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: bobbo666
Ernest Hemingway..."Every true story ends in death."

Start with that premise...act accordingly

20 posted on 11/13/2022 8:16:22 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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