Posted on 02/05/2014 2:33:05 PM PST by Kaslin
Power over other people.
Pride. They are insufferably righteous about being right.
Look at Obamacare’s hideous website malfunction and the CBO’s disasterous employment projections.
The left will not admit this Thing needs to file thirteened.
It does, but they will never admit it.
Both...plus a lot of hatred.
If you think about it, the Democrat party has long been the “Seven Deadly Sins” party.
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride
However, in all fairness, they have enlarged the list to incorporate ever more sinful acts.
Tyranny
Dehumanization
Human Sacrifice
Genocide
Philistinism
Racketeering
Surveillance
Treason
National Immolation
My dear old Dad was a lefty for forever. I didn’t realize it until I matured and was able to “see” his faults, but still love him because after all, he was only human.
But I could never fathom his rants and tirades against doctors, and other professional people. He hated them. He ridiculed them, he called them “greedy ba$$tards.”
One day, I interjected that those folk spent YEARS of study and hard work to get to where they were at. The explosion was instant and profound.
My mother later pulled me aside and told me to not discuss or argue with him on those issues.
Jealousy drove him. His hatred for professional or educated people was right on the surface.
Enter me, he was proud as hell when I got the education I got, but on unguarded moments, out it came. “So, you think you’re better than the ‘workin man’?”
When I reminded him that I “worked” too, and real hard, (which he knew) his face would go purple and he would go silent.
He was not a greedy man, but his union bosses were. Pop just could NOT bring himself to see that those scumbags, who “took” his hard earned dollars, were actually worse than the corporate pigs he worked for, hated and who “paid” him really well.
I know lefties are greedy as hell, and they DON’T want to work for it. But my experience was that many of the rank and file, like my dad, were driven by simple envy.
GREED! Always greed as you notice that none of the liberals in congress or state gov’t ends up poor after getting into office.
Ambivalence, (having two conflicting emotions at the same time), is also part of the typical Juvenile Liberal stunted emotional development.
Thus, to your question: Greed or Envy? The answer is YES!
After all, where would B. Hussein be without the conflicting emotions of Love and Hate; Admiration and Class Envy; and, of course, Truth and Lies.
Excellent quote, thanks!
Hatred - because they hate their own hollow lives,
and
Envy - others, for having lives.
They will endlessly seek power over others, because they have none over themselves.
Envy and Hatred are COMPULSIONS. They have no power to quell them inside.
Great post
Their purpose is to run on the wholesale violating of all 10 Commandments and then appointing themselves as God to justify it!
"The vision of the left is not just a vision of the world. For many, it is also a vision of themselves -- a very flattering vision of people trying to save the planet, rescue the exploited, create 'social justice' and otherwise be on the side of the angels.
"This is an exalting vision that few are ready to give up, or to risk on a roll of the dice, which is what submitting it to the test of factual evidence amounts to. Maybe that is why there are so many fact-free arguments on the left, whether on gun control, minimum wages or innumerable other issues -- and why they react so viscerally to those who challenge their vision."
Yes.
Everything else is secondary ... first and foremost, the leftist lusts for power. The leftist doesn't worship God, the leftist thinks he IS god.
Power and Control, both go together.
The left is envious of the power the opposition holds
and greedy because as long as there IS opposition
they don’t have enough power.
Laziness...most leftists I’ve known are allergic to real work.
Greed is just a subform of envy. Envy eventually matures into hate, theft, adultery, violence, destruction, murder, war, and voting Democrat. Envy is an unfortunate side effect of vanity. The origin of all human evil can be traced back to vanity... so really all is vanity.
Liberals minds don’t seem to work the way normal people’s minds work. I *think* it’s what “obtuse” is, but I’m not sure. Agree that there’s a lot of hatred- to the point of depravity, & that they really go whole hog when they think they’ve got the power, but mostly, they’re just nuts. There doesn’t have to be a “reason”- one will be along any minute now.
I would love to know if there is a psychological disorder/ definition that goes with it. (like that’s going to happen)
envy and greed are two fingers on the same hand
Demonism comes to mind.
The peons...envy
The big Kahunas..power.
It’s the big Kahunas job to re-enforce the ‘envy’ paradigm.
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