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Leftists are often immune to reason or logic because their fixations are not logical but essentially emotional. The anomaly occurs when we understand that these people can be and often are of high intelligence and of high educational level as conventionally defined.

This anomaly is explained by the fact that intelligence is no defense to the seduction of liberalism any more than intelligence is a defense to narcissism. Actually, the animating driver of leftism is narcissism. Some call it the quest for power, I call it the urge to play God.

This is the primal urge of the ego, one identified early in the book of Genesis and one that is immune to logic, reason or the application of intelligence.

Have you ever noticed ...

...that the very same
“ intellectuals”
that say there is no such thing as absolute truth and that say all truth is relative

..are the very same people who...

Absolutely think
it’s absolutely true
and factual

.......anything they think ?

“Actually, the animating driver of leftism is narcissism. “

The sooner that people realize that fact, the sooner we can start treating these egomaniacs as the crazy people that they are. There are detailed articles on how to identify and destroy narcissists.

Hi Nathanbedford, nice to hear from you.

I do believe you captured the essence of Leftism in that one post of yours-and quite completely, too.

Whittaker Chambers was the first I recall who stated this aloud for the world in his immortal quote:

“...It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God...”

Leftists are often immune to reason or logic because their fixations are not logical but essentially emotional.

I used to think that, but I realized that since no matter of fact can pierce their emotional veil, then it's neither emotional nor logical -- not even self-delusional: for them its empirical.

That is to say, they see only what reinforces their emotions and logic. Let's just say they have no eyes to see and no ears to hear. They only see and hear what they want; everything else is invisible to them.