I myself have often pointed out that the Left abroad seems more like the "Right" at home than it does to our own domestic Left--the militarism, the social conservatism, the jingoistic nationalism, etc. vs. the pacifism and self-hatred of the domestic Left. It does almost seem as if the global struggle is indeed between two different "right wings" at times, with our Left on the side of the foreign "right."
With these flaws kept in mind, I hope readers will enjoy the insights he makes on this phenomenon. He's described almost perfectly what I've been clumsily trying to describe for years.
Ping.
They are allies because they have a common enemy, America.
Because Western Leftists are closet Totalitarians....
Sweden, Rape Capitol of the World and Land of Sitzpinklers, resembles our domestic "right"?
It might have been Florence King who said:
“It’s a sure sign you have invented your God,
when He hates the same people you do.”
The author seems to be saying that the only solution to this contradiction is replacing "locational liberalism" with a universal, global liberalism. So he correctly diagnosed the hypocrisy but proposes a completely inverted solution to it. Rather than trying to export "Democracy" and liberalism to the Third World, we should be countering multiculturalism and radicalism at home.
I would also say that the real reason that the Left supports ethno-nationalism (along with religiosity, social conservatism, and militarism) for non-western societies while condemning these things in western societies is that their real ideology isn't about love of social liberalism, but hatred for Western culture. Supporting multiculturalism and social radicalism at home helps rot America and Europe from within, while supporting ethno-nationalist Third World movements helps destroy us from without.
It's also interesting to see how the multicultural Left treats Russia. Because of residual love for the Soviet Union and Russia's antagonism with NATO, some on the American and Western European Left are still sympathetic to Putin. However, as far as most liberals are concerned, Russians are too white and too Christian for them to embrace as anti-western allies in the way that they embrace nationalistic African, Arab, or Meso-American strongmen.
BTTT
Great post ZC!
fixed.
Funny stuff. In essence, he’s saying that the Western Left engages in mass cognitive dissonance. They just simply aren’t sane.
The author is mostly clueless: He loathes the right, wherever it’s found, says that Chavez is a right wing militarist only pretending to be on the left... but the one true thing the author says is that the left in this country supports factions abroad that are fundamentally totalitarian and oppressive to gays and women, and which do not believe in the left’s values... so true.
Fascists try to keep their own kind in power, wealth and privilege while trying to drive everyone else to exposure, starvation and violent deaths. Fascists in every political party secretly agree while pretending to be on opposite sides. Here are the policies of fascists and the truth about their motives.
Immigration for their own kind regardless of where their national loyalties lie (”professionals,” rich foreign terrorists).
Businesses for their own kind (regulations, fees, arbitrary regulator discretion, harassment).
Housing for their own kind (regulations, fees, arbitrary regulator discretion, harassment), decline of vocational/technical programs and domestic production.
Rights for their own kind: rights to own firearms for example.
Higher education for their own kind (certain groups of government employees more relieved from student loans).
One commenter recently wrote, “They are not conservatives. Heck, they aren’t even public servants.”
And many more examples... So the socialists in both political parties look for a “strongman” as a leader in hopes that they will get the policies they want with the use of force instead of democracy.