Either individual freedom or communism.That's actually another point that puzzles me. I grew up during the Cold War, and whatever the Iron Curtain was or was not, it was most certainly socially conservative. Khrushchev didn't wear a dress. Todor Zhivkov didn't pick "trans" people for his advisers. Wladislaw Gomulka didn't go around flinging bombs at Warsaw.
Furthermore the old Communists were very patriotic. As a matter of fact, the Communist world routinely used the word "patriotic" and "patriots" to designate the Communist side in any conflict. And their fanatical nationalism for third world peoples cannot be ignored.
And the old Communists most certainly didn't hate the countries they ruled. They didn't burn its flag. Todor Zhivkov didn't go around yelling "Death to Bulgaria!" And they most certainly all had police and military forces. And at this very moment socially conservative Communist states are being supported by western nihilists who make no demands for nihilism of them. Where are China's or Venezuela's "trans" people?
It is most puzzling (at first) that the Left throughout the world would pick as its primary enemy, target, and bete noire a government that arose through a revolution at the time of the "Enlightenment." If you go back and read how Benjamin Franklin was feted by the radical chic in France you will learn that it was we who were the "noble savages" and "indigenous pipples" that all "right thinking people" supported. Saint-Simone, one of the original founders of socialism, came with French troops to fight for us. There wouldn't even be a Left today without the American Revolution.
Yet it is always and only America that they all hate on. They behave like old time foreign professional wrestling "heels" working the crowd. And every power with which America comes into conflict is supported to the nines, be it a new age vegetarian utopia or a restored Attila the Hun.
Now I know that you young folks automatically shout that it's because America is the special chosen nation (despite being founded so relatively recently) and naturally all the forces of ee-vil are against it. But really? You all know there are far more "reactionary" and "oppressive" places in the world. To say that the US is G-d's special chosen chrstian country is like saying the KJV is the one and only Bible. Anyone get it?
I don't just see the stereotypical evil flag burning scum, but some on the right who are their mirror reflections, practically insisting that the Constitution was Divinely inspired. I now recognize that what I've been seeing all my life is a two-winged philosophy. I now see two sides of one counterfeit coin. And I now believe that what we must reject is not merely one "wing" but the entire dualistic system.
And no, this doesn't mean that I hate my country or any such thing, though I recognize that there were definitely some subversive elements involved in its creation, as is true for all modern countries.
PS: In the middle of composing this my computer froze solid and I had to reboot. I fully expected all I had written to be lost. I thank G-d that it was not. PPS: Remember that if you're not over sixty you may very well misinterpret all I have said.
Furthermore the old Communists were very patriotic.Not really. They were internationalists.
Where are China's or Venezuela's "trans" people? --
There are many
The chicoms don't see transgender as a question because the "third sex" has been more or less accepted in Indic and Sinic society since before Christ. But they have their own place in those societies
Yet it is always and only America that they all hate on. --
err... what are you talking about?
In India the bete noir is the BJP and Hindutva parties
In Poland and hungary it is the Catholic church that the left hates - while they love the USA because the previous US ambassador was pro-abortion etc. - the USA is seen as the leftist group along with the UK and France and Germany.