The Rise of the Unprincipled Left

American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2022 | Stephan Helgesen

[MtnClimber]

Those holding liberal views and the principles that go with them are very different from those of us who claim to be conservatives or libertarians. The contrast between the left and right that make up the halves of America has never been more pronounced — nor, I would argue, more hazardous to our country's health. With midterm elections coming up in just about ten weeks' time, this might be the right moment to reflect on just how different the two Americas are.

The overarching differences

Let's start with traditional conservatives. By traditional, I am referring to a set of values that have transcended many generations. Some of them are love of country, respect for authority and the rule of law, trust in our institutions, belief in personal accountability, fidelity to our Constitution and Bill of Rights, trust in our courts (and juries) to fairly adjudicate the cases before them and mete out appropriate punishment to the guilty, confidence in our schools and teachers to educate our children passionately but objectively, respect for our military service members and law enforcement organizations for the dangerous jobs they do,

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The world of the left

The left's world is dominated by, as I've stated, a belief in situational dependency coupled with might makes right. Leftists eschew actual democracy and fear free speech. They see the forced imposition of their cultural views as a holy crusade, and if anyone dares question that crusade's legitimacy, he is summarily banned, doxxed, deplatformed, ostracized from polite society, vilified, and fired from his job — or accused of being a white supremacists, misogynist, homophobe, right-wing extremist, or domestic terrorist. Leftists have no qualms about offering up the names of the "opposition" to the media and to municipal, state, or federal authorities for later prosecution or persecution.

[Chewbarkah]

The author needs to wake up to the fact that Leftists are NOT LIBERALS. Conservatives no longer yearn for rule by an aristocracy of major land-holders.

Most of what America calls “Conservatives” share fundamental “Liberal Values” with what used to be called Liberals. The difference is mainly in the degree of government interference deemed tolerable, degree of religiosity, the acceptable pace of social change, and the expected level of individual freedom and responsibility.

The following do not share “Liberal Values” at all, and in fact detest them:
Fascists. Nazis. Socialists. Communists.

This makes a big difference when fighting back. Many of today’s Democrats are NOT LIBERALS.

[Nervous Tick]

Why are people so slow to see what is happening around them?

Normalcy Bias