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Newsflash: Crazy people are drawn to leftism
American Thinker ^ | 21 Aug, 2025 | Noel S. Williams

Posted on 08/21/2025 6:23:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Confounded leftism should not be elevated to the level of legitimate political philosophies ending with the “ism” suffix. The perennial political paradoxes from time immemorial have been addressed by great thinkers whose insights are often pigeonholed by some “ism”: liberalism, conservatism, capitalism, socialism, Marxism, etc. No matter where one falls on the spectrum, the ideas underpinning them were formulated by mostly rational minds -- even if their prescriptions don’t comport with human nature.

Leftism doesn’t come close to that. Other than being consistently anti-American, it is not a coherent or cogent ideology, although its inherent demagoguery is reminiscent of some aspects of fascism. Leftism isn’t intellectually potent enough to “make people crazy.” Instead, it is a loony mish-mash of anti-tradition and anti-Trump messages just for the sake of it. It rejects commonsense conventions born of experience that have often served humanity well in our inexorable pursuit of enlightenment (with notable exceptions).

In a sense, leftism is really “wrong-ism” insofar as it reflexively rejects what’s proven to be right on the right. Why, for example, would anybody want to radically transform our society (the last great hope of Earth) after attaining comfort in our Shining City on a Hill? Why not stay whence you came if we’re so bad (e.g. Soros, Ilhan, and others…) and transform your own dysfunctional societies (Somalia is a mess, for example, and Hungary has plenty of its own problems)? Leftism didn’t make them crazy; rather, they are crazy people who contribute to an ill-conceived and disjointed patchwork of leftist poppycock.

We categorize many crazy policies under the aegis of leftism, and conveniently label their progenitors as leftists. In other words, they are formulated by unhappy people who have an axe to grind. Their lunacy is then reinforced by leftist indoctrination and conformity, but, ultimately

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BUMP


21 posted on 08/21/2025 9:32:16 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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And they invented “woke”.


22 posted on 08/21/2025 11:39:21 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Bury Biden beneath BBB border wall!)
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Woke is just a new word for insane.


23 posted on 08/21/2025 11:41:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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From the respected, No $h!t Sherlock wing at Haaavard.


24 posted on 08/21/2025 12:36:51 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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25 posted on 08/22/2025 12:00:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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