The left is driven by jealousy, greed and anger. You should never expect their plans to be good for you. Expect intentional harm.
When evil individuals have no consequences for their actions, they will continue to do evil.
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The average lefty may be driven by rage, jealousy, and every other human non-virtue.
Those leading the left use leftism to increase ownership of the world. By driving the world to war, they crash market values and can buy up the market at bargain prices. Given enough time, they own the world in a literal sense.
For all of VDH's intellectual heft, he fails to realize that in the view of communist true believers, what he deems a failure is their very definition of success.
If your goal and objective is a population controlled by dependence on government for their mere subsistence, then communism is an optimum avenue for success.
Linen said, “We must grind the people between the millstones of inflation and taxation.” There was not a kind, helping bone in his body. The Left is about destruction for the sake of destruction. It seems illogical and irrational, but the Left isn’t about helping the people, it’s about breaking them down so they will accept control. Control is their goal.
I think VDH is trying to be charitable. But he gives it away with the bolded line. Its all temporary until the Left can fool enough people or cheat enough to retain power. Even as they feign the basic appearance of a return to sanity, they're still rounding up people (J6, pro lifers, media that doesn't toe the 'narrative') and throwing them in prison or effectively debanking them.
The left is convinced of Karl Marx’s term, ‘scientific socialism’. That basically means keep making adjustments until you get your ideal society.
The Left’s idea of “working” is not the same idea of working that Victor—or a majority of American voters—has.
The criminals pushing/running it
The leeches benefitting from it
The stupid rich white liberals who support it for emotional reasons (and because they’re stupid)
Yes, and they do not care if it works or doesn’t work.
P O W E R > That is the objective. Nothing more.................
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Good article by VDH, that can be summarized as the left not being able to ask the classic question: “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?” They’re trying to distance themselves from the chaos they caused.
Didn't Disney just release a new woke turd called "Star Wars: The Acolyte" (a.k.a. the "gayest Star Wars" ever)? They're not backtracking.
It doesn’t work as advertised to to public. It DOES work for the unmentioned goal of gaining tyrannical power over a society.
NEVER look at what the Left says, look instead at what they do.
“progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power”
That’s the left’s only point. All the policy pronouncements, utopian b.s. and societal division are just techniques for this ultimate goal.
So it is wrong to say that leftism doesn’t work. It works spectacularly. At attaining power over YOU!
BUT seems half our nation is easily fooled as half stick to Biden in spite of all this, denying the horror of the last 3 years.......
Such being a fact says our nation is doomed..
Polls ought to show Trump at 75% and Biden at 25%.........
there are ‘leftists’ that are largely stupid, naive or both who believe what they say. then there are ‘Leftists’, the evil ones, who know their policies are to cause enough trouble/clear the way to implement some sort of Totalitarianism
In response to the headline, it must be said that what “works” is not their point. The Left is in rebellion against God, Nature, etc... They are not interested in a functioning society.