Increasingly, I find, people on the left simply cannot accept any right-wing view as legitimate.”
Or rather, he’s becoming increasingly aware of it. Leftards have always been that way. On the other hand, all leftist thought, from the limousine liberalism of a George Clooney to the mass murders of Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot, is of and from Satan. It is a contaminant in the human cognosphere, not a natural component of it. Although many who are not rabid leftist nonetheless accept this or that leftist proposition, it is therefore an error to accept any left-wing view as legitimate.
“We often read that the old categories of “left” and “right” have become irrelevant.”
They’ve never been more relevant, and we’ve never been more polarized.
“a war between two world views that have become very nearly mutually incomprehensible.”
No, while the left is unable to comprehend anything else, the right understands the left very well indeed.
Very good points.
That is of the linear liberal mentality that equates left with Marx and right with Mussolini. With their pea-brains they think the opposite of Stalin was Hitler, yet Conservatives and libertarians understand that both are equally evil Socialism.
Stalin, Mao, Castro and Pol Pot oppressed the individual citizenry through Socialism in the name of the people, whereas Hitler, Mussolini and Franco oppressed the individual citizenry through Socialism in the name of the Nation. It is no coincidence that USSR and NAZI both have the word socialist in their full names.
Individual Freedom is the natural opposite of Socialism.