Category: Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

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Cult of Leftism Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

When you already

think you know everything (epistemic closure)… And, of course, any change is an admission that a new direction is better. Change is fundamentally an admission of having been wrong before. There’s no reason to do something different, if what you have been doing is good and right. And most Democrats simply do not have the personal humility to make that kind of admission.

I think that shows exactly why many of us who were once totally willing to vote for a Democrat now rear like a shying stallion at the extremist policies of the post-Clinton Democrats.

And it is a total shame that a wise but moderate voice like Ruy Teixeira is forcibly driven from the party for not holding close enough to the new party line enough. I may not agree with everything Ruy says, but I sure agree with a lot of it!

I guess he should’ve known that any disagreement, however nicely put, could not be accepted or even tolerated by the current Democrats. For them, you are either a hard-core adherent or a heretic. There simply is no in-between. So they “excommunicated” yet another voice of reason.

Sorry, Ruy. I will miss your voice…

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity Stooooopid!

My words to

this woman: Toughen up, Buttercup! Why is she crying? Because after she said that all homeowners ought to have their private home seized and distributed to the poor, someone asked her about her mother’s $1.4 million home, and whether THAT should also be seized. What a loser!

Classic Leftism: Theft from thee but not me! You know, that’s how all Leftism works. The apparatchik class gets all they could ever imagine, while the “peons” have their property taken away. All in the name of “fair,” comrade!

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

This pretty much

the Lefty tantrum response whenever the voice of the people say something they don’t want to hear or elect someone they don’t prefer. I think it is deeply rooted in an overweening narcissism–if someone believes something I (I!) don’t think, it is ipso facto proof that they are wrong.

I am the measure of all things!

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity Psychopathology

Yes, Trump did

indeed break the Democrat party. Why do you think they hate him so much? If he were unpopular and ineffective they would just scoff at him and then move on. But the FACT that they are obsessively, Javert-like angry at him is a “tell.” He has become their white whale. And the intensity of their hatred tells you the truth, here.

People’s words can lie; Their behavior virtually never does.

Hanson called out Barack Obama’s infamous talk with black Democratic activists as a perfect example of this elitism. “‘You think Donald Trump’s good or something.’ ‘You’ve gotta get out there and support Harris.’ ‘You’re suffering basically from Marxist false consciousness. And I, and as an elite, know what’s good for you and I will tell you. Now, go do it,’” Hanson paraphrased.

… Hanson summed up the party’s attitude with a single biting phrase: “It’s a Karen scold.” By treating voters like children and lecturing them on everything from energy prices to social norms, Hanson argued, the Democrats have made themselves easy prey for Trump—a truth the left can’t seem to accept.

See, because treating/respecting others as thinking adults would require Democrats to at least acknowledge that they might be wrong. And THAT is far beyond what they are psychologically able to do…

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Trump has really

put Lefty hacks in a bind: He has quite obviously done some very good things–we all see that. Yet they strategically (and characterologically) cannot be seen as agreeing with him because they don’t dare say anything even mildly supportive lest he get even more popular, and it is also too great a threat to identity and ego-integrity for them.

They simply cannot say, “President Trump has done some good things, but I disagree with…” Because hating Trump is a HUGE part of their Lefty religion, and so they are not able to acknowledge anything that might cast shade on that religion.

And while I wouldn’t call what we see here a “meltdown,” I would agree that it pretty viciously kooky. It is a denial of facts, choosing to live in the fetid Lefty fever swamps rather than in the real world.

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Yeah, that’s

pretty much true. Oh, and they won’t verbally defend their positions at all, to boot.

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Change Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Oh, Democrats

sure don’t want to face THAT question!

That question is this: Why didn’t anyone say anything sooner?

… If President Trump were this existential threat and our democracy hung in the balance with the 2024 election, why did the party and its leaders continue to back such an unpopular sitting president most of the country thought should not have run in the first place? What does it say about a party if it knew ahead of time the consequences of a Trump election yet backed candidates who were almost predetermined to lose? Why, in the face of such peril, would no leader stand up earlier and ask, “Are we sure we are putting our best foot forward?”

I think the answer is obvious: Trump was not actually a threat to our threat democracy. And as we have come to see with DOGE, he was only a threat to the Democrats themselves. But that would not have exactly been a winning position for them.

But it’s pretty clear that the Democrats need to take a very different direction now. And that may be hard for them. They have leaned on the “crutch” of Trump hatred for so long that their legs are rather atrophied. But their only way to victory is through change.

Look, Democrats, you lost the Trump battle. OK, it’s over. Now it’s time for you to move on and not get mired in the mud and muck of yesterday’s fights. I’m not entirely sure you’re up to it, to be frank. But I guess we will see, huh?

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Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

I think it’s

a really good point: Hard Lefties don’t really communicate, they excommunicate!

It’s so common as to be almost a proverb that Lefties destroy friendships and push away relative if they are not hard Lefty enough. It interferes with a range of relationships:

The story is a little old. On one of those ‘Love is Blind’ shows, the bride, Sarah, dumped Ben at the altar for not being progressive enough. Ben wasn’t a hard-core Trump supporter or anything; he just wasn’t into the issues, and that led to Sarah jettisoning her TV fiancé. 

Pretty amazing, eh? She was just too intellectually rigid to tolerate someone who is not JUST like her in terms of beliefs! Politics were FAR more important to her than a human relationship.

He is a very lucky man that she jilted him and walked away. She is simply not marriage material, and she would have left over something like him putting the toilet paper roll on “backward” or not loading the dishwasher “right.” Welcome to Hell…

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Current Events Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

Now that the

Left has screeched, “Trump is Hitler!” for so long, where they go from here? Super Hitler? Über Hitler? I mean, they kind of have run out of “headspace” here.

And of course the problem is that no one even pays attention to such weirdness anymore. It’s just like the term “racist.” No one freakin’ cares anymore. The word has totally lost any impact it may have once had.

That it is all so embarrassingly stupid may actually be the point of the exercise. Remember that the leftists have this thing demonstrating their fealty to the movement by loudly and publicly proclaiming that which is obviously, utterly untrue. By abdicating any shred of dignity in this way, they sacrifice their own integrity on the altar of Marxist nonsense. “Look at me! Look what I’m willing to do for the cause! Trump is Hitler! Men can have vaginas! Joe Biden is honest and not at all demented! I will say what must be said to prevail! This is the depth of my commitment!”

And I think that is entirely correct. It is not about logic or persuasion, it is only about virtue-signaling. And it is a way to say that you are a strong member of the Lefty “tribe.” It’s all about showing your Lefty bona fides.

OK, so where does the Left go now? Well, their options are really quite limited. Without recognizing “rock bottom” and actually changing, they really have no choice but to double- and triple-down. Hence, Über-Hitler. But then again, what other choice do they have without legitimate fundamental change?

Now, they could go in the other direction. They could attack Trump and his policies substantively. But this has several problems… One is that they don’t know how to do this. Leftists haven’t had to argue for decades…The bad people are unworthy of having their ideas refuted. They should simply accept that they suck and submit.

See, for a Leftist, arguing a point is leaving their “circle of safety.” So they typically refuse to do it at all. As I have said, persuasion is the Democrat “vestigial tail.” It’s ONLY for decoration, not for use. It is the shiny laminated pig-iron Samurai sword and throwing stars on the wall.

Yup! All hat and no cattle!

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Current Events Lefty Intellectual Rigidity

I’m sure it

hurts Jon Karl to say it. And it clearly reduces Hakeem Jeffries to a blithering, avoidant heap.

But the truth is, Trump’s policies are extremely popular. I know it is a source of pain for the Left to admit, but it is true. And not just a little popular with a few people, but overwhelmingly so with most people.

And it rather shows what an uphill climb the Democrats have. The Democrat policies (such as they can be wrung out of a defensive Democrat mob) stink to high Heaven, and so they are rather forced to take a very unpopular stand in response to Trump’s very popular one. Or just say nothing. It’s a tough spot.

On one hand they feel the need to almost compulsively take the opposite of any policy that Trump has. But on the other hand, those Trump policies are quite popular. Overwhelmingly so. It is simply political suicide for Democrats to take the opposite position on many of these issues.

And Karl’s question really lays out the problem for Democrats. He said, “Is there anything that Trump is doing that you are in favor of, that you think is the right thing?”

It’s a brutal question. Almost no matter how he answers, it will be a bad political avenue for him to take. That’s why he simply did not answer the question. Him saying, “it’s early, yet” is no answer at all. It is merely a dodge. Because no matter how he answers, he is hosed. Therefore, he simply refused to answer at all.

Yeah, avoiding answers to tough questions. That’s the Democrat way…