Posted on 05/25/2025 4:54:31 AM PDT by 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.”
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This is why narcissism is so prevalent on the left.
Leftism is of satan.
That’s where the graft is for those so inclined.
“Why Does the Left Worship Power?”
Because they don’t worship God.
Yes, the left has chosen to align with the Prince of the Power of the Air rather than Creator God.
...and people STILL wonder “WHY is there so much polarization and conflict?” when the answer is as old as humanity.
“But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”
“our democracy” = “their democracy” = they are in charge, you obey.
Narcissism, greed, self aggrandizement and at their core a desperate emptiness and lack of meaning. Leftists seek to fill this void with false religions like Gaia Worship, or Global Socialism or anti racism/anti colonialism (both of which in practice just mean a blinding hostility to all things Western).
They’re desperate for a grand cause so they can tell themselves they’re righteous. Of course, they are NEVER required to live with the consequences of their own actions. They can for instance, champion DEI yet pull strings to get their (White) kids into the Ivy League. They can preach about Gaia Worship yet fly around in private jets and have ocean front mansions. They can preach the joys of socialism while keeping or building obscene wealth for themselves.
Childish insecurities.
It is self evident what the Left wants to do with power because they are already doing it.
They desire to bring about human suffering and death.
Every time Leftist are in power they start wars. Once a war begins they do most every time a war is begun they work to ensure that the war continues.
Leftist promote and protect abortion. Abortion is the murder of babies. What could be more immoral or cause more suffering.
Leftist work to ensure the continued poverty of people in countries where it thrives by placing impediments to those countries obtaining fossil fuel electric generation.
The Left is the greatest promoter of human suffering because it what they desire.
I think that’s very much a part of this. If someone else is in charge, then that person might possibly tell me that I did something wrong. I would hate that. But if I’m in charge, then no one can tell me that I did something wrong. I would be perfect all the time. Like the dictator in North Korea. If I have the power, then no one can criticize me. I can rest easy in the knowledge that I am better than everyone else.
Simple. Because they don't have a marketable product. If you can't attract voters with a great plan, you have to use force, coercion, and election interference.
That view vindicates their u\quest and use of absolute power, even to the ultimate point of ignoring and even celebrating the suffering they cause buy divesting the people of freedom.
The left are Utopian Fascist of the highest order. And when they lose in their battle to impose their view, they have such cognitive dissonance that they want to do violence and murder.
Some of them deserve capital punishment for treason, sedition and cold blooded murder. One of the signature writings describing such fascism is here:
Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist By Kyle-Anne Shiver
It has become apparent now that we must destroy them and never surrender to their violence and insanity.It is also evident that Obama made Biden's presidency into his third term.
Whatever is the right thing to do they crave everything the opposite.
It’s a disease far worse than cancer.
Precisely, Eccl. Absent God's presence in their lives, without power over others these pathetic, lost souls soon discover their miserable existence has not a shred of meaning.
Inadequate people love power. It’s a perfect place to hide your inadequacies
>> Because they don’t have a marketable product.
Boy, ain’t THAT the truth! It’s tough to direct-sell theft, death and destruction...
They’re Godless, and that “spiritual void” that remains desires to be filled. They seek money/power/control to fill that “void”. They hunger for it; they need it to bring some sort of stablity to their pitiful, wretched existence.
Unfortunately, that “void” can only be completely satisfied by God....they just can’t bring themselves to understand that. Instead, the whole country, indeed the entire world, has to put up and suffer with these useless jerks.
Nancy Pelosi saying our democracy was yes key word our
Not childish though
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