The left sees the right as EVIL to be eradicated. Like Lenin saw the Kulaks — “bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine.”
Historically, this kind of hatred is very effective in unifying a sufficient number of operatives to achieve its destructive objectives. We, the opposition mounting a response, fear losing our respectability, getting jailed, if we go balls to the wall. The left, however, celebrates their political martyrs.
The moral: only when conservatives realize we really have nothing more to lose will we have the creative vision and energy to start winning.
Take this Lenin letter as an example of Leftist sentiment ...
11-8-18
Send to Penza
To Comrades Kuraev,
Bosh, Minkin and
other Penza
communists
Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost’s must be suppressed
without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this,
because we have now before us our final decisive battle “with the
kulaks.” We need to set an example.
1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public
sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the
bloodsuckers.
2) Publish their names.
3) Take away all of their grain.
4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday’s
telegram.
This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for
hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out:
let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks.
Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.
Yours, Lenin
P.S. Use your toughest people for this.
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TRANSLATOR’S COMMENTS: Lenin uses the derogative term
kulach’e in reference to the class of prosperous peasants. A volost’
was a territorial/administrative unit consisting of a few villages and
surrounding land.
[source: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ad2kulak.html]