Yes, this is why you cannot even begin to have a reasonable debate with these people. We're a hair's breadth away from a descent into violence and savagery that will take everyone by surprise. Why would this be the case? Because those with the leftist worldview have invested their entire existence in what amounts to a fundamentally insane and downright evil premise: that human beings are things, animals or machines and therefore you have no right to your own life. And that's precisely the premise implicit in what that communist bastard 0bama said.
Chantal Delsol, in her landmark Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century offers an excellent perspective on refusal of the Left to face reality:
Vital resistance and resentment are the two main responses to the events of 1989 (she refers here to the collapse of the old Soviet Union - WD). Vital resistance: the mind realizes its mistake - it admits, for example, that nationalization of the means of production does not produce a happy society, but rather laziness and constant shortages; it refuses, however, to let go of the idea because of its passionate attachment to it. Existence - adventures, friendships, successes - is nourished and permeated by this belief to such an extent that the belief becomes an identity; the individual cannot renounce it without committing a kind of symbolic suicide. No one can admit... that his existence reflects the echo of a failure.In other words, no one wants to admit that the premises upon which one has constructed their entire raison d’être amount to an empty, shrieking fraud. But it's a lesson that will go unlearned by most of them until it is far, far too late.
I experienced this attachment recently when our libinlaw was at our house and was VERY ANGRY that we had “prepper items” in our house.
She just kept repeating how “insane” it was, but I read right through it - our preps were pointing out the imminent failure of her worldview.