At the risk of being repetitive, it is social snobbery that keeps them going. The drug of believing yourself superior to the rest of mankind without having to do anything to prove it.
When you’re surrounded by other left-thinking people, it is really really hard to have the social courage to doubt or disagree. You’ll be ejected from the herd and youi know it.
Better to talk leftist talk; after all, they have their hands on a goldmine, the incomes of ordinary people. They can drain the peasants now, for every penny. So it’s better to be on their side, right?
It’s a new aristocracy. The old aristocracy used to just beat people up and say hand over your harvest, p[easant, but leftists have learned to lie with incredible talent.
We were with a group of people at dinner in May. Out of the clear blue sky, one woman said she watched obama’s speech that day about Isreal, and she agreed with EVERYTHING he said.
I told her I had also watched that speech, and obama wanted Isreal to go back to its original borders, which I’m opposed to. Then another woman said she’s not an obama fan. People did speak up to her.
I asked her how she got to be such a big liberal, and she looked me in the eye and told me she’s an INDEPENDENT.
It amounts to what can be boiled down to ‘the politics of peer pressure’. To want to be included, and ‘high minded’. Based on fear (of rejection) more than intellect, it provides safety from the unknown, instead of the risk of not knowing.
Liberals are lazy cowards intellectually. Seeking comfort in the approval of others.
Thank you for sharing these words—I agree with you and you’ve stated the case very well! Leftists of course will never admit their addiction to other people’s pockets.