Posted on 09/01/2026 2:56:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Remorse and atonement do not exist in the leftist mindset.
Michael Shellenberger, who to his complete and total credit has published damning takedowns of the left’s inherent hypocrisy and corruption in works such as San Fransicko, published an article on Wednesday titled “Progressives Will Be Horrified When They Wake Up To What They’ve Done.”
The subheadline of that piece said, “The sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, will haunt the Left.”
Many conservatives think this way, that our poor, misguided leftist friends, who may or may not have endorsed the aforementioned barbarities with the best of intentions, merely require the right revelation, the right sequence of carefully constructed arguments and cold, hard facts, to abandon the false god of leftism. These conservatives cling to the idea that even hardcore leftists can be reasoned with, that the marketplace of ideas merely has to work its magic to convert these wayward sheep back to the old civility of yore.
The thing is, the left won’t wake up. There will be no mass conversion event when all the trans activists, corrupt bureaucrats, and Antifa thugs suddenly snap out of it and rejoin the more sane ranks of American society.
That’s not how pathological leftism works, and to believe that it does is a dangerous fantasy. Concepts like remorse and atonement do not exist in the leftist mindset...
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So, they’re all like women then...
Leftism is narcissism.
Anything is ethical if it advances the revolution. (Karl Marx)
Leftists support any cause for The State.
They justify any actions for the furtherance of The State, including self-sacrifice.
To them,the State is their gawd.
Why do they need absolution?
An excellent essay. The Author is exactly correct. The vast majority of committed Leftists will never admit to their mistakes and the horrors they caused.
They are unable to do so. They would have to reject their entire worldview. They will absolutely refuse to do so.
Every last socialist has a central belief.
“This time it will be different.”
But of course it never is.
vkmk
they dont think they inflict misery or horrors
The issue isn’t the issue. The issue is the Revolution.
later
They have, to quote theologians and the Good Book, a seared conscience.
They will never apologize because in their mind they have nothing to apologize for. The revolutionary omelette requires some cracked skulls. And if it happens to take hundreds of millions murdered so be it. The glorious revolution awaits.
Soviets had no remorse killing the Kulaks and seizing their property. NAZIs had no remorse killing Jews and seizing their property. Money and power are the gods of socialism. A million deaths are merely a statistic in service to these gods.
The author is correct. The left are comfortable with the consequences of their preferred policies and beliefs. At best some of them might age out a bit and come straggling back to sanity one by one. They will never renounce their malice however.
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