you this for some time, now. Leftism IS a cult. It is a “culty” religion complete with a “priesthood,” “sins,” absolution, and indulgences. And like all cults, it urges you to break relationships with any friend or family member who is not part of and supporting the cult or who might provide reasoned disagreement.
After listening to remarks by its featured speakers, folks may have thought the session was part of the annual chaotic Burning Man frenzy in the Nevada desert.
satisfying to see Lefties whine and tantrum that the constraints they so gleefully put on others are now applied to them. Where is your Marxist god now, Leftists?
Look, you don’t need to be ashamed of how satisfying it is to see the tables turned on this turncoat. There’s nothing wrong with taking pleasure in the misery of someone who richly deserves to be miserable. While crying about hypocrisy is the act of the impotent, being a hypocrite is still bad, and it’s still fun to see hypocrites suffer righteous retribution. Trump’s playing for keeps – it’s highly amusing that they’re surprised the guy they tried to bankrupt, imprison for life, and murder won’t let bygones be bygones – so this is just the beginning of the dealing of the pain.
glitterati so quiet right now? You would expect to hear their constant braying, with the mid-terms coming up and all. But no. They have been quiet as the tomb. Oh, you will certainly see some in the coming year, but they have been unusually quiet so far.
Hollywood Democrats missing in action is also coinciding with what is still deep resentment among many Democrat donors (some of whom are still paying off millions of dollars of Kamala Harris’ debt) and Democrat Party popularity that hasn’t been as bad as it is since 1990.
for normalcy in the Democrat party–by a leader in Democrat strategy. But it really seems like they are not listening. This is why former Democrats like Donald Trump, RFK Junior, and Tulsi Gabbard have left the Democrat party. It just has become way too extreme for normal, non-shill people.
But the real question is whether or not they can change. From here, it doesn’t look very good. Part of the reason that change is so hard for them is narcissism. In order to change, they would first have to face the reality that what they have been doing is problematic. It is simply not working. It is wrong. Until they can face up to that issue, they simply will never make any real change.
But that kind of introspection is very rare in Democrat circles… Ruy is certainly trying to help them change.
One doesn’t need to be a Marxist revolutionary like Che Guevara, who advocated two, three, many Vietnams, to think Democrats are in need of a bit of revolution in their ranks. In my view, they need to think about a “Sister Souljah moment”—indeed, two, three, many Sister Souljah moments! [emphasis in original]
… The list could go on. Using the traditional 0-10 Sister Souljah scale, where zero is doing nothing at all, 5 is barely adequate, and 10 is what Bill Clinton did, I’d give today’s Democrats a 1 for the occasional grudging admission in interviews and the like that maybe the Democrats have overdone their noble commitments a little bit (though of course their heinous opponents are 100 percent wrong). And the 1 might be generous.
Again, the American Democrat party has become a full on, kool aid-drinking cult. And they won’t easily change. Maybe a decade of being electorally hammered will help a bit…
that Democrats have gone more than a little bit kooky. And there is an effort by some of the wiser heads to nudge them back into line. But I’m not sure it will work. They sound like total freakers, and normal people shy like a rearing stallion at their ideas. I’m not sure there’s anything they can do to change that. But here is the memo:
times, the “gap” between sides has gotten wider and wider. I don’t think people are even trying to straddle it now, like they were in 2005 or so. No, the gap has gotten so wide now that you can’t be a “mugwump,” with your mug on one side of the fence and your rump on the other.
But there are not even “Mugwumps” in the Democrat party anymore–they have gone the way of “blue dog” Democrats. You are either a Kool-Aide drinking Lefty extremist or you are excommunicated from the cult of Leftism and persecuted!
And you KNOW it’s a cult because it separates you from friends and family who voice even minor skepticism about this culty organization. Again, Lefties don’t communicate, they excommunicate!
cuts against the Lefty dogma, here. And that, my friend, is why they lie about that and hide their true positions on it. It is yet another 80-20 position where they have scandalously taken the “20” side.
And it’s intellectually utterly stupid. Lefties typically won’t argue with you about it, because they are so easily pounded into dust. Any fall with more than a room-temperature IQ will beat them about the head and shoulders on this issue.
So neighbor resort to their typical answer, which is simply to run, hide, and ignore. If you are not going to spout the dogma of “the cult,” they will jam their fingers into their ears and say, “la la la I’m not listening to you!”
They have to stay within the”Circle of safety,” of course. They got not talk to anyone who is not part of “the club,” and who might disagree with them. Yeah, that’s not culty at all!
logic and arguments to the hardcore Left. They have pledged an impermeable fealty to the secular religion of Leftism, and they hold to it with religious intensity. Because it is a cult, and they won’t put a toe outside the fetid embrace of the Lefty fever swamp, the “circle of safety!” Logic and reason just have no place in their conversion and thus they are impervious to such things!
So you may ask those three questions, but the only response you will get from the hardcore Left is being ignored or being called names. Maybe both. You certainly won’t see any real intent to get to the truth. Because they don’t communicate with those who have different ideas, they just ex-communicate heretics!
primarily a religious movement. Once one is “converted” to Leftism, there is the very same thing we see with religious cults. The primary thing is there is a huge avoidance of any idea, any fact, or any person who might argue against the standard, orthodox Leftist view. And that view is constantly changing. Only those who are very much “into” the cult can really keep up with all the changes in doctrine. And so know me these things because a mark of allegiance and identity.
And there is also this famous tendency for Leftists to break off any friendship or even familial relationship with anyone outside of the Lefty “Circle of Safety.”
Yes, this is very “culty.” Let’s just say that the stifling aroma of Kool-Aid emanates very strongly from some parts of the Left…
good day!
