Why Does the Left Worship Power?

American Thinker ^ | 25 May, 2025 | Ted Noel

[MtnClimber]

Leftists worship the ultimate meaningless God, one that can only be satiated by power.

We left my last essay with a conundrum. “What was my Irish Setter supposed to do when he caught the UPS truck?” Or in political terms, “What do the Democrats want to do with the power they are so ardently seeking to seize?” Even so great a thinker as historian Victor Davis Hanson admits to being a bit puzzled by this.

After days of pondering, I found myself listening to that late great philosopher, Dame Olivia Newton-John, when she instructed us in song to “get metaphysical.” And this takes us straight into theories of “meaning.”

In his 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson emphasizes that it is essential for the individual to pursue a single aim higher than oneself. Meaning emerges from aligning one’s daily actions with a long-term vision that serves others or a greater good. And that is almost always service to God in some form or another. As Peterson notes (timestamp 9:00), “If there’s no unifying [single] ‘super-ordinate goal,’ the state of psychological affairs that obtains is one of confusion, anxiety, and social disunity.”

Note that the absence of higher service leads to personal chaos. Power itself is not service. It is a tool for service. Ultimately, this takes us to theology.

The oldest manuscript we have of Deuteronomy 32:8-9, the Dead Sea Scrolls, points out that the division of humanity into warring tribes at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11) placed each of those tribes under the authority of individual rebellious elohim, celestial beings created by YHWH, the One True God.* Each of them chose to rebel in order to be, as described by Isaiah 14:13-14, “like the Most High,” on a throne “above the Most High.”

[RoosterRedux]

And sexual perversion.

It's like a grocery store deciding to stop selling fresh fruits and vegetables and sell nothing but rotting meat.

[SaveFerris]

(Why Does the Left Worship Power?)

Because they worship their true Father
Satan, the god of THIS world 🌎🌍 John 8:44

This is why they LOVE Homosexuality, “transgender”, abortion.....

The DEMOCRATS are doing Satan’s will

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Why Does the Left Worship Power?”

If you have power, you have control. It’s all that matters to them.

[SaveFerris]

(Leftists worship the ultimate meaningless god, one that can only be satiated by power.)

The fall of Satan,
son of the dawn

Isaiah 14:12-14
Evangelical Heritage Version

12 How you have fallen from heaven,
you bright morning star, son of the dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!

13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to heaven!
I will raise my throne above the stars of God!
I will sit on the mountain of the assembly, in the far north!

14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds!
I will make myself like the Most High!”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2014%3A12-14&version=EHV

[SaveFerris]

(Because they don’t worship God.)

YES

Because DEMOCRATS don’t worship the TRUE God.

That would explain the behavior of Democrat Kamala Harris

At DEMOCRAT Kamala Harris'
SATANIC Pro-Abortion Rally



God may not be a Republican
But Satan is certainly a Democrat



(MOLOCH)

"Moloch is a figure of ancient Near Eastern and North African religion, most famously associated with child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible. The name, derived from a Hebrew term meaning "king," is used to refer to a deity worshipped by various cultures, particularly in Canaan. He is often depicted as a bull-headed idol with outstretched hands over a fire, where children were reportedly sacrificed."

[Vermont Lt]

Humans worship power. It is an equal opportunity disease.

Just ask Grassly, McConnell and the rest of the aged Republicans.

[Carry_Okie]

Why Does the Left Worship Power?

Because they are useless in and destructive to a real economy.

[metmom]

Because when you reject God, there’s nothing left to live for.

[metmom]

I’m becoming more and more convinced that people who are control freaks are so because they have no self-control, so they try to control things and people around them instead.

[FlingWingFlyer]

They are slave owner wannabes. They’ve got a sheet of cheap toilet paper that says they are smarter than the average bear. Same thing as the Nazis and Caribbean Commies.

[drwoof]

Agreed. Further, they have nothing beyond this realm to look forward to. As a result, they are constantly terrified at a primal level, and so see everything either as a personal threat or, alternately, as being essential to their survival. Power to protect themselves from such threats or to attain all that they think they ‘need’ is a matte of live or death for them. Even when ‘victorious’, their security is fleeting. The need for power and control in this tragic mode of living is insatiable..

[Dan in Wichita]

The quest for power and dominion is as old as time itself.

[redangus]

Fit’s my nephew’s wife to a T. She is one of the few really nutty Leftists in the family, but she always held sway over family gatherings. When she was around, we all are expected to self-censor. She said anything she wanted, but we had to be careful not to upset HER. Some of this came from the fact she held the power of the grandchildren over my sister. If you pissed her off, she didn’t bring the kids over to see Nana. But regardless of the source the power was still the same. Now that my sister is gone and the boys are teenagers she’s lost most of her power. How is she handling it? She just doesn’t participate in family functions anymore. For most of us, that is not a huge loss.

[jmaroneps37]

Because it is their God. It proves that humans need and want a Gode en if they have to invent him.

[bray]

The National Socialist Party never died after WWII. They were and are Communists who are dictators.

[bray]

Liberals are extremely tolerant of everything they agree with.

[Nateman]

Europe tore itself apart with various versions of Christianity. People who wanted to worship their own way fled to the New World. Choosing what they wanted to worship became the essence of America. This is why a truly toxic religion like Islam is not resisted with the intensity that effort deserves.

[Salman]

“The left” as it exists today is organized bully worship.

[stinkerpot65]

Violent annihilation of Christianity and Western culture requires power.