Marching to the leftist drummer

American Thinker ^ | Carl Schwitzer

[RoosterRedux]

Careful scrutiny of how the left operates reveals a tiered hierarchy. There is a small cadre of elite leftist leaders who know the true nature of the evil that they perpetrate. This leadership is utterly self-serving and utterly cynical. This is where you find the true psychopaths, racial eugenicists, etc. Examples include Vladimir Lenin, Lavrentiy Beria, Heinrich Himmler, and George Soros.

They have a praetorian guard of similarly elite true believers in the causes trundled out for consumption by the leadership. These are intelligent, motivated, and charismatic champions of causes like environmentalism, multiculturalism, Malthusianism, etc. These are the people who cannot psychologically afford to accept that they might be serving an untrue belief system, so they will readily and casually reveal their cognitive dissonance to others without being able to see it in themselves.

And finally, the foot soldiers: These are the ones who march to the tune of whichever drummer promises the brightest utopia for the least amount of personal effort and investment. It is these that have been cultivated to be emotionally infantile adults incapable of critical thought. It is these who hold simplistic worldviews and decide with their emotions instead of their intellects. They tend to believe the caricature of their enemies that has been painted for them by their leadership, but their relative proximity to actual circumstances at ground level causes them to see through the ruse occasionally. These foot soldiers are perpetually subdivided into smaller and smaller special interest groups. They aren't especially evil; their chief problem is unquestioning loyalty to the left's leadership.

It is these foot soldiers that you frequently see acting out.

[rlmorel]

Right...I think your post dovetails in with both my assessment and the article. And I agree there are conservatives in there as well.

I sometimes feel that conservatives hiding under a rock, by their silence, contribute to the boldness of Leftists in advancing their agenda. But I do recognize many of us have done that at one point or another in our lives, for various reasons.

[DeweyCA]

Sigh. I admit to looking disfavorably at anyone who watches the news and accepts it at face value. If someone has the news on, I leave the room. It isn’t that I can’t watch the news as they present it, it is more that I can’t handle the fact that so many people unthinkingly swallow it whole.

That is exactly the same reaction that I have when I visit my sisters and their husbands. I get disgusted and walk out of the living room when I see them watching and believing the lying newsmedia.

[rlmorel]

My wife is someone who watches. It is painful for me.

[otness_e]

“People forget, or willfully obfuscate, the reality that both Fascism, as practiced in Spain and Italy in the 1930’s, and the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler, commonly known by its German acronym, Nazism, were both LEFTIST regimes, that took the logical development of their socialist ideology to its extremes.”

Okay, although I agree with your overall point about how the leftists of various stripes have been joined at the hip, as well as their constant infighting, I just want to take the time to point out that Spain was NOT socialist/fascist, at least, it wasn’t under Francisco Franco. Actually, it was closer to Monarchist with a slight hint of fascism in there. If ANYONE in Spain was fascist or socialist or what have you (or anything close to that), it was actually the Spanish Republicans/Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, NOT the Nationalists. Actually, if anything, Franco’s group actually MATCHED Nationalism far more than the National Socialists ever did. Just wanted to make that clear since I really don’t appreciate Franco being falsely labeled as a leftist, when he really wasn’t.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

My wife is someone who watches. It is painful for me.

Ouch. What a drag! My wife is solid, it’s our children who seem to be utterly obtuse.

[rlmorel]

Not really a drag...she is no lefty or even a liberal, but...she just doesn’t see the media the same way I do. I have a good amount of disdain, she just doesn’t feel that.