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When people believe they are possessed of ultimate truth inconvenient particulars along the way are dismissed. Walter Duranty could not see, or would not see, 7 million Ukrainians starved and murdered by Stalin.

If you look at the body language of Barack Obama, which resembles that of Mussolini, you will see an arrogance in which he dismisses not just the point of view of others but their very worth as human beings. That is why he is tone deaf to the suffering of the unemployed, although he is sociopathic enough to exploit it. That is why he can take his vacations and play his golf rounds. He is special because he has a unique apprehension of ultimate truth.

Generations of leftists could overlook 100 million dead catalogued in the Black Book of Communism because it was as nothing compared to the ultimate truth. So if 6 million kulaks die in Ukraine, Walter Duranty does not see it because it does not fit. If the national health service in England is causing suffering, is not seen because the quest is not for better care but for equality of care-a greater and ultimate value.

Chairman Mao could be indifferent to the suffering and deaths of literally tens of millions which he caused because he believed that his conception of the truth was more important than their individuality. Leftism is ultimately an ego trip. It is the ultimate violation of the First commandment, it is to presume the very role of God.

Not incidentally, that is why the left is so viscerally hostile to the Judeo-Christian heritage because there is a fundamental and eternal battle between good and evil, between believers and God players.

Not incidentally, that is why there is no individual salvation to a leftist but group salvation-which Obama has time and again emphasized in his speeches. Salvation comes to the individual as and only when he submits to the group. So if Chairman Mao wants to advance his conception of a cultural revolution to shape the group, the sacrifice of individuals is nothing.

The key to understanding this is to understand that when the individual gives into the group he finds an enormous psychic release. You do not believe me, ask yourself why "they drank the Kool-Aid" became a cliché for the sublimation of the intellect to the "ultimate truth."

[Generations of leftists could overlook 100 million dead catalogued in the Black Book of Communism]

Truth indeed. Yet they always mock Christianity about the evil times of godless murders of innocent Christians by the church of godlessness, but communism is ammoral and the murdered peoples are multitudes more than the victims of evil religious murderers in priests garbs of old. Communism, of which socialism is the child of, has murdered more people than any religion on the earth ever has.

>Walter Duranty could not see, or would not see, 7 million Ukrainians starved and murdered by Stalin.
Generations of leftists could overlook 100 million dead catalogued in the Black Book of Communism because it was as nothing compared to the ultimate truth. So if 6 million kulaks die in Ukraine, Walter Duranty does not see it because it does not fit.

Actually, I believe that 7 million was the total dead from all of Stalin’s famines, which didn’t affect only the Ukraine, but also Southern Russia, and also Kazakhstan and even the Volga region as well.

One modern estimate that uses demographic data, including that recently available from Soviet archives, narrows the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of precise data, 3-3.5 million. Nevertheless, a lot of people died, and Duranty turned a blind eye to their suffering. They probably would say that you can’t make a omelette without breaking a few eggs, or that good things require sacrifice.

>If you look at the body language of Barack Obama, which resembles that of Mussolini, you will see an arrogance in which he dismisses not just the point of view of others but their very worth as human beings. He is special because he has a unique apprehension of ultimate truth.

I’ve always felt that Barry was arrogant. Look at his Greek columns display.

>If the national health service in England is causing suffering, is not seen because the quest is not for better care but for equality of care-a greater and ultimate value.

I think that the Left’s idea of success if different from ours. They’re interested in enforced equality.

>Not incidentally, that is why there is no individual salvation to a leftist but group salvation-which Obama has time and again emphasized in his speeches.

The Left is always collectively oriented. They love humanity as a collective whole, but as for individuals? Tough.