Leftists Can’t-Don’t-Won’t Ever Learn

Watching leftists endlessly promote the same catastrophic policies is tiresome. Some quotations come to mind:

- "“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” -- Ronald Reagan

- “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -- Soren Kierkegaard

Since so many of the worst cities in America are run by Democrats, one would think that their voters would eventually catch on. Those who do and are able, move away. Some take their failed ideas with them and, like cancer cells, infect their new environs with the same diseased ideas that caused them to flee. The phrase, "Once bitten, twice shy eludes them, as does the old definition of insanity.

At one time, our schools taught actual history. Since Howard Zinn's books have hit the market, we're now seeing entire generations of Americans who can't find China on a map, don't know who America fought in World War II, and can't name the three branches of our government.

Throughout history, people have gained great power by making promises to the poorly-educated and instead brought only misery and oppression. The same policies promoted by today's Left have resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide. Some died from famine and disease, others were slaughtered by their own government.

The Soviet Union's economy was characterized by central planning, where state-controlled production, distribution, and prices, leading to inefficiencies and shortages. Agriculture was collectivized, resulting in significant declines in agricultural productivity, contributing to famines. The Bolsheviks murdered Russian citizens on a scale never before seen.

In China, Mao initiated the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which were aimed at rapid industrialization and ideological purity

Nearly two decades ago a Freeper generously sent me a copy at his own expense of Witness, Whittaker Chamber's autobiographical account of his reformation from a communist spy to a capitalist who exposed the communist spy, Alger Hiss.

Whittaker Chambers was, to coin a phrase, there at the beginning. His communism was genuine and at the early stages in America. He certainly had the credentials to answer the question he posed for himself, why?

His answer was essentially that communists were communists because they would be God. God players do not find themselves constrained by the rules, Gods make the rules. So the very seductive siren of socialism offers easily navigable ground for the nimble man become God to rationalize every brain fart for the benefit of society and, equally, to rationalize and trivialize all the misery they cause.

Communism therefore is not essentially a manifestation of a misguided intellect but a spiritual cancer and the cure, therefore, cannot be to persuade the would be God with reason but to offer him an epiphany and a new birth.

A new man, as Whittaker Chambers became, finds himself very much in alignment with reason.

This article came out shortly after Trump’s 2016 election win. It remains the BEST explanation of the leftist behavior that emerged from the deep and hasn’t returned.

Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.

The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.

You wonder why the left is having a nervous breakdown in the wake of Trump's election? It is because, for them, politics is the means to secular salvation. This means that, to them, political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.

This is why all of the excesses of these demonstrations—death threats, looting, violence—can be excused by CNN and MSNBC: They are the necessary extreme measures, justified in light of the threat to their ideology.

Secular humanists ( the Darwin cult ) main weapon is the lie

When Jesus spoke of the days leading up to His return, He repeatedly warned against deception. In the tribulation, deception will be worse than today, but it’s already bad enough. This is one of those areas where people respond, “But that’s just part of the human condition. People lie because it is their nature to lie. They’ve lied since the beginning.”

This ignores two things — the downturn in human morals we see around us, and the downturn in human morals foretold in Bible prophecy (2 Timothy 3:1-7). Growing godlessness will yield an increase in deception. As people increasingly reject God’s Word, they reject truth. God cannot lie, so to reject Him is to reject the truth. Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am… the truth.” To reject God the Son, Jesus, is to reject truth. Today’s widespread turning away from God means turning elsewhere. There are basically two choices —God’s side or Satan’s. Those who choose Satan choose the father of lies.

But even if people stayed exactly the same, deception today would still be at an all-time high. That’s because we have tools for deception that no generation before us even dreamed of. Starting with the printing press, technology has amplified the human ability to lie. In the 20th century, books became easy, newspapers proliferated, radio came into its own, then television appeared. All this media gave advertisers a way to hawk their products as they always had done, but to audiences of millions rather than dozens.

In the 21st century, newspapers may be dying, but, sadly, they are also still lying. They set the news agenda for broadcast media and for social media. People have gossiped with their neighbors for thousands of years, but now they can share that gossip with the whole world. Religious and political deceptions have exploded in the last few years.

The consequences are catastrophic. Hitler’s propaganda machine deceived the German people of the 1920s and 30s. It resulted in the bloodiest war in human history. In the decades following Russia’s communist revolution, the Bolshevik deception destroyed countless lives around the world.

Today, deception is also having severe consequences. It sends gunmen to schools and congregations. It topples governments, and ruins lives. In 2002, Venezuelans bought the lies of a charismatic communist leader named Hugo Chavez. He nationalized industries in order to fund social programs. The same socialist/communist lie has been destroying nations for over a hundred years. Venezuela was beautiful and prosperous when Chavez took over. His deceptions turned it into a ruin.

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What is the answer when you’re not sure who to trust? 2 Timothy 3:13-17 presents the problem and then the answer. “Evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

You may not have had the privilege of growing up knowing scripture, but you can turn there now. God’s Word is ever true. It gives direction to your life (Psalms 119:105) and a solid foundation (Matthew 7:24-27) for all that you do. These are good days to get into the Bible (or back into the Bible) deeply and joyously.

Hat tip H.L.

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