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Dennis needs to get over his distinction between leftists and liberals.

It’s not true.

In this article it simply detracts.

I think Prager's point is that historically "liberals" were not communists. Liberals were quite differently defined.

His point is that socialists/communists/Marxists make a habit of hiding their ideology by co-opting words and redefining them to suit their cause.

Just my opinion, but I don't think it detracts at all.

I disagree with you, but with the caveat we should keep in mind: Leftist and Liberal are political terms that people don't define uniformly.

I used to use the two terms interchangeably, but I have since come to the conclusion that they are not.

I have a very long explanation to describe the difference in detail, but I suspect your patience would be tried reading it, so I will summarize it.

Liberals are somewhat normal people who view things emotionally without taking the time to think them through, and their malformed views on one or two things is acted on by their limited logic to set their views on other things. These are often not bad of ideological people, and they can usually be talked to in some degree. You won't often change their minds, but they aren't like the two categories of Leftists described below.

Leftists are not "somewhat normal people". I divide leftists into two classes of Leftists:

The "True Believers" who make up the large majority of the Leftists are the mindless, spittle-lipped cannon fodder of the Left, they passionately believe all the pap about racism, class warfare, social justice, class inequality, you name it. They believe it, and believe it fervently. You cannot talk to these people, they are to be avoided as if they have communicable diseases. These are people who carry out all the violence, the shootings, the thuggery of the Left.
Lastly, there are the "True Leftists" who are the minority of the Left, and they understand one thing: their ideology is all about power and control of others, and that is all. They simply adhere to the rigamarole about racism, class warfare, social justice, class inequality because those things are the bandoliers of ammunition they hand out to the "True Believers" to march with.

It is interesting and ironic, because if we end up in CWII, the "True Leftists" AND the "True Believers" are the ones our side would have to go to war with. However, when the Left fights, The "True Leftists" will not only go after US (a given) they will also go after their own "True Believers". Their own people who mindlessly supported them will be dragged away to be tortured and murdered by their own ideological brethren, and as they are dragged away, they will be screaming in confusion "Why are you doing this? I am one of you! I supported you!"

All to no avail, of course. The "True Believers" would present just as great a risk to the "True Leftists" as we would, just in a different way.