As he noted, the cure for leftism was when it adversely affected him personally
Too many of them don’t have the guts to take an honest good hard look at the world and see it as it is, rather than as they wish it were.
eg. in the real world there are bad guys who don’t obey laws. Ergo disarming the good guys is doing active harm since the bad guys aren’t going to obey gun laws anyway. In their fantasy world, they’re always just one ban away from utopia.
It is one of the worst aspects of leftism… Those who promote it are almost always never forced to live with the ramifications and consequences of leftism.
They often live in bubbles, protected bubbles, insulated inside that bubble from other opinions.
There is some thing about leftism That I find in particular is highly disturbing and perplexing.
I have struggled to understand leftists. It isn’t stupidity in many cases. It’s something else. I have vacillated between classifying it as a mental disorder, a weird manifestation of secular, religious fervor, or simply people who are so immature they never grow up.
But Thomas Sowell said (I have to paraphrase this) that the policies of leftism are abundant only because the people who promote them never have to experience them firsthand.
I believe that, but I also believe in PT Barnum observation that a sucker is born every minute.
And I also believe Thomas Sowell is correct In his observation of why government is so broken in this country today:
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.