The Unbridgeable Abyss: Why Reason and Truth Shatter Against the Leftist Mind

LHGrey's Substack ^ | 16 May, 2026 | L H Grey

[Carry_Okie]

The basic functional operations of imparting this type of conditioning was developed at the Tavistock Clinic before WWWII. Yet it was not married to Marxism until it came to the US and encountered Cultural Marxism.

[Da Coyote]

Leftists have minds?

[citizen]

A couple of lines that summarize this long article - sort of:

The left does not process truth because every cognitive mechanism is hijacked to protect the collective delusion.
-and
But the left’s variant is uniquely virulent because its ideology demands totalizing moral claims incompatible with pluralism or evidence.

[Macoozie]

“civilizational self-sabotage wearing the mask of compassion”

often phrased as “Suicidal Empathy”.

[MtnClimber]

I wonder if leftists could be deprogrammed the way cult members are deprogrammed.

[MikelTackNailer]

So it's like "A Clockwork Orange"'s Ludovico
Technique, just subtler and without the eye clamps.

Though I've met some Leftists so far gone
it seemed 'Nature Over Nurture' in their case.

[citizen]

Difficult, per the article. I guess to start by interrupting the constant reinforcing of leftist ideology fed to the individual.

Next, idk. Is way out of my experiences.

[marktwain]

Powerful essay. Thank you for posting it.

[Nateman]

I think of a Conservative, and then I take away reason and accountability.”

Not quite. 'I think of a MAN'. I remember it well because I was sitting in a theater next to my mom. She blurted out 'That's not true!' after I broke out laughing. Being a man I took the responsibility of saying 'of course not!' because I reasoned the other people in the theater didn't come there to hear us argue .

[AuntB]

“The left will not be reasoned into sanity; it must be outlived, outbuilt, and outvoted by those who refuse to surrender the prefrontal birthright of humanity: the capacity to face reality without flinching.”

Indeed..

[sauropod]

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