[My Identity]

we have certainly gotten some things right, above all, our opposition to domestic and global inequalities.

Actually, this is exactly wrong. Opposition to a result leads to imposition of a "better" result. Their myopic morality and failed ideologies prevent them from understanding why the result occurred in the first place -- thus they enhance their irrelevance by producing nonsensical proposals.

[ffrancone]

Walzer posits that there was once a 'decent' left. I don't know when. It has always been about power and control and tearing everthing apart so those on the left can exercise power and control. There has never been a time when the left has not held, as a truth, that the end justifies the means. No political movement has been more deceptive or dishonest in representing itself to the people than the left.

The problem is in the fundamentally elitist notions on the left. 'We know how the world works and we know how to run things to make everything almost perfect.' That has underpinned every leftist approach of which I am aware. Anything is justified in achieving that goal. Nevermind that they know nothing about how the world works and that their solutions invariably make things much worse. They are driven by this erroneous belief and it always takes them to nasty, brutish revolutions and governance.