I have often thought that the way leftists gobble down lies reminds me of how a buzzard gobbles down roadkill guts with a look like “yum, that is so good”.
(For Biden Supporters, No Lie Is Too Much To Break The Faith)
Just like the cult of Hillary and the cult of Barack.
Unpleasant analogy but true.
Perhaps. But there is a much deeper problem here. The collapse of belief in both revealed religion and the normative cultural that were the foundation of middle class America is key to understanding this blinkered mentality(and this has been going on since before the ‘adversary culture’ sprang into bloom in 1965 at Berkeley. Look at how much a very popular piece of popular culture ‘The Music Man’ is built on contempt for those things and the glorification of the conniving con man of the musical’s title. The play is an almost continuous riff of snark, put downs, and sarcastic commentary on the normative and glorification of the disgressive.)
The vacuum caused by this collapse has led to the ‘my truth or me generation mentality in which individuals were supposed to be ‘condemned to freedom’ to figure out what had taken the west millenia to sort out. What ensued was predictable moral confusion, aimless drift (read Michener’s old but still very relevant ‘The Drifters’ to get a good granular detailed picture of the devastating effect this existential purposelessness has on common weak people who have been told they are all little Nietzsche’s, when in fact they are just the current version of Bob the soda jerk at Nelson’s Drug Store, Dick the gas pump boy at Turner’s Gas Station, and Marylyn, the clerk typist at Butler Brothers Real Estate and Insurance Co.) Unlike their ancestors they just have some half assed college degree from some private or public propaganda mill which has imparted to them a sense that they are very edumacated and highly moral persons capable of understanding ‘the great issues of our time,’
These half educated and intellectually illiterate people do not have the internal fortitude (what used to be called guts) to come to grips with the inherent brutal irrationality of physical existence and crave some sort of substitute for previous religious and social norms. Being all edumacated and everything such answers to their profound insignificance have to arise from materialistic, secular humanist and Marxist prescriptions. Once one becomes a believer in the Church of Secular Humanism all the rest is easy. The democrat or ‘progressive’ talking points and the fake narratives pushed by provide the opium of the semi educated pseudo intellectuals that all these degree holders think they are. Believe and regurgitate the buzzwords and bumper sticker thoughts of ‘gun violence’ ‘climate change’, ‘raaacism’ and you can feel good about yourself, you are a ‘good thinker’ therefore therefore you are an official ‘good person’ and that forms ones psychological identity. It is after all, to say KMA to what passes for ‘society’ and try and figure things out for yourself. So I never expect these people or their children or grand children to turn from the bogus pseudo religion of good thinking unless the ‘Gods of the Copybook Headings’ do return with fire and blood in their wake, which I think might happen in the next decades. If so, for those who live, it will be delicious to watch these empty suits on their knees pleading for supernatural intervention to save their miserable hides.