I think that explains why something like Islam, which one would logically think is antithetical to leftist views, finds a place on the left. But logic isn't the glue that binds them it is their common enemy on the right and common sense itself. It becomes apparent that views in common are not their fundamental measure of acceptance. It's the lust for power and the willingness to defy logic and common sense that allies the sometimes disparate groups that make up the left.
Pretty much sums it up perfectly.
I’ve said this a couple times here in the past, but it applies to this as well. Imagine as a thought experiment 1000 years or 2000 years from now. Assuming there are thinking humans remaining in whatever world it becomes.
Imagine their scientist/psych/anthro guys looking at 1960 to now in a scientific research type manner and trying to explain the world you and I currently inhabit.
I honestly think they would be looking for some airborne contagion or ‘something in the water’ to explain ‘us’ and what ‘we’ as a world now act like, how we govern et all.
They would think something happened to create global insanity.
We kill babies but protect/house/educate murderers
We fly to global warming confrences in remote locations in such numbers the airports cannot land all the aircraft
We drive 4x4 diesels with Sierra Club stickers.
We demand an end to Aids and celebrate the primary vector.
We demand equality and defend Islam
We demand clean energy and create electric cars that require the multiplication of power stations, while cutting off their fuel supply.
We ‘revel in our freedom of speech’ on networks controlled by the state.
A white congressman calls a Black congressman an uncle tom for ‘catering to his white base and that he isn’t really black.
A rapist president is held up as a model of women’s rights promotion.
And on...and on...and...