[blueunicorn6]

People want power and wealth. If you have wealth, you can BUY power. If you have power, you can TAKE wealth.

[betty boop]

Many on the right find solace and guidance through the sensed presence of a transcendent Intelligence at the root of things and structure their lives accordingly. The secular-narcissistic left dismisses this outlook as fanciful nonsense while working relentlessly to establish its own fanciful nonsense of fabricating a homogenous earthly Eden out of highly disparate human material.

"[T]o the religious gnostic, reality is a delusion, a creation of false consciousness. The religious revolutionary believes humanity creates its own reality."

Yep. Called "second realities." But they are founded on nothing substantial; they are simply dream projections. Thus, they cannot in principle be realized. But a narcissistic personality entrapped by gnostic thinking will not be discouraged by this.

Thanks for the great post, markomalley!

[unlearner]

“In this sense, leftist ideology has the look of a religious inquisition.”

In every sense. There is a religious furor over their moral standards from the sacrament of abortion to the demand to respect homosexual behavior as normative.

We have allowed the left to get away with using government to establish their religion to the exclusion of true religion and morality. Caring for the poor, the sick, the orphans and widows are religious duties which have been taken over by a leftist government.

It is no different than the murdering churches which the earlier settlers in America came here to flee. It is no different than the murdering Islamists trying to establish their theocratic rule. We have returned to an era of government established religion, a treacherous tyranny which must be overturned.

[Hardastarboard]

"Death by Government" by RJ Rummel should be required reading for every American citizen. In that book he details how governments throughout history have murdered, not sent off to war, but MURDERED, nearly 300 million people. By one count, nearly half of those were murdered in the Twentieth Century, mostly in the name of socialism.

Knowing the above, I'm not giving up my guns to anybody.

[Inwoodian]

One of the best articles on Leftism I’ve ever read.

[ReformationFan]

This ought to be posted in the religion section since that is what leftism is indeed.

[KC Burke]

Profound.

[Revolting cat!]

This is an excellent article.

[yoe]

Will read more closely, but it appears the author left out of the history that the Tyrants used Social Justice as their judicial, if any, “system”. Social Justice is now the preferred system and of course taught in all major law schools...real justice is hard to find.....

[yoe]

Be sure to follow the link in the last sentence...danger... (Hitler, Linen, & Stalin)