The Moral Low Ground

It is instructive and amusing, in a macabre sort of way, to observe the ideological contortions of Progressives who lionize a brutal theocratic dictator while demonizing a peaceful Christian leader as a “hater”. The following essay from Norway provides an analysis of this dystopian political trend.

Many thanks to Erik for translating the first portion of this editorial from Document.no:

The Left, this self-proclaimed bastion of justice and compassion, reveals itself through a deeply disturbing double standard that undermines the very foundations of universal ethics.

Their moral reflex is not principled but tribalistic: loyalty to one’s own group trumps any consistent norm, and the result is an ethic that is morally corrupt to the core — a perverted version of humanism that serves power games rather than human dignity.

This becomes particularly visible in reactions to political violence. When a brutal tyrant such as Khamenei — a man who imprisons dissidents, crushes opposition, and oppresses millions in Iran — is assassinated, indignation explodes. Condemnation is immediate, accompanied by dramatic warnings of escalation and destabilization, while the tyrant’s own abuses suddenly disappear from view, as if his victims were worthless in their calculated narrative.

But when a conservative Christian such as Charlie Kirk, a political activist who primarily represents ideas he himself abhors — freedom from government interference, individual responsibility, free markets that foster innovation and prosperity, limited government that protects personal rights, and economic independence without socialist coercion — is targeted for such violence, something strange and deeply disturbing happens.

Then the high moral principles disappear completely. The comment sections are filled with laughter, scorn, and claims that this was, after all, “deserved.” The very violence that was just portrayed as a moral catastrophe is suddenly tolerated, explained, or even applauded. This asymmetry is not just inconsistent; it is a moral scandal of demonic proportions, an ethical bankruptcy in which the Left reveals itself as a bunch of hypocritical opportunists sacrificing principle for tribal hatred.

What is revealed here is a mechanism in which morality is no longer judged by the nature of the action, but by whom it affects — a primitive, barbaric logic that reduces ethics to a tool for group survival. Enemies can be demonized, ridiculed and ultimately dehumanized, while other actors — even brutal tyrants — can be treated with a strange moral caution if they fit into a political narrative. The same violence can thus be barbaric one day and understandable the next. Principles change not because reality changes, but because the identity of the group demands it — a corrupted morality that is as poisonous as it is self-deceptive.

The result is a political culture in which morality is reduced to a tool for tribal instinct, a malignant form of tribalism in which group loyalty blindly overrides universal justice. This is a mimetic cycle of violence, where the Left needs scapegoats such as Kirk to maintain its internal unity, while Khamenei becomes their sacred victim — a symbol of “anti-imperialism” that they use to rally the pack. This is satanic in nature, a primitive mechanism that projects its own aggression onto others and perpetuates an eternal cycle of conflict and injustice, where morality becomes a weapon of collective hatred.

Their degeneration into an identity political abyss, where the dominant progressive Left — the one that has taken over the public discourse in today’s Norway and the West — has become a culture of performative virtue-signaling that masks a deeper moral rot. This variant, which no longer has anything to do with the true idea of freedom, but is instead a mixture of collective moral policing, state intervention and selective empathy, prioritizes narratives of “oppression” over actual morality. Their hypocrisy around Khamenei and Kirk is symptomatic: They are trapped in echo chambers that prohibit real dialogue and promote a toxic form of group hatred. This is a destructive force that undermines the credibility of the progressive Left, reducing it to a bunch of superficial activists poisoning the public sphere.

Their group blindness is a fatal lack of self-awareness where tribalism masquerades as progressivism but is in reality a primitive, destructive force that divides nations and betrays universal justice. They protest Khamenei’s assassination because it threatens their anti-Western narrative, while they rejoice in Kirk’s because he symbolizes the “privileged” enemy. This is not solidarity; it is barbaric tribal behavior that threatens the very foundations of society, and the Left is the culprit in this moral decay.

Their eternal melancholy as a Left that has lost its utopia and is now wallowing in defeatism and victimhood — a sick nostalgia that replaces action with perpetual complaint and promotes a depraved ethic where trauma is cultivated as currency. They worship Khamenei as a melancholic icon, while Kirk becomes the symbol of their lost struggle, a dynamic that betrays the Left’s historic call for liberation and reduces it to a pathetic shadow of itself.

"Enemies can be demonized, ridiculed and ultimately dehumanized, while other actors — even brutal tyrants — can be treated with a strange moral caution if they fit into a political narrative. The same violence can thus be barbaric one day and understandable the next. Principles change not because reality changes, but because the identity of the group demands it"

Interesting Khamenei is part of the article. Because there is very little daylight between how the mullahs in Iran act and Leftists in the West act.

Another parallel: the treatment of Muslims who leave their faith, and the way the Left treats people like Andrew Breitbart, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK jr, etc.

4 posted on 03/14/2026 5:20:48 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)

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