Posted on 09/16/2020 3:00:03 PM PDT by MacNaughton
All of my life, I have said that the left’s moral compass is broken.
And all of my life, I was wrong.
Why I was wrong explains both the left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation.
I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the left doesn’t have one.
This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The left regularly acknowledges that it doesn’t think in terms of good and evil. Most of us are so used to thinking in those terms — what we call “Judeo-Christian” — that it is very difficult for us to divide the world in any other way.
But since Karl Marx, the left (not liberalism; the two are different) has always divided the world, and, therefore, human actions, in ways other than good and evil. The left, in Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous words, has always operated “beyond good and evil.”
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It’s hard for the left to break something they never had to begin with.
The Left is all about compromise. As in “let’s compromise, you do it my way first. If that doesn’t work, ‘we’ can do it my way second”. There is no third.
Leftists don’t have morals or principles. They have goals. Period.
Their moral compass is pointing in the wrong direction.
That is how they can constantly lecture us about the "evils" of capitalism, freedom of speech, the patriarchy, you name it.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
- Isaiah 5:20
I guess it was hard to imagine they were actually as depraved as they seemed to be. But they used to measure their sick rhetoric.
Fifty years ago the Left in this country had a moral compass.
After Roe V Wade the Left stomped on their moral compass and threw it away.
Forty-seven years later they don’t remember they ever had one and think Conservatives are idiots for glancing down at their once in a while.
I must ask, are you the Artist who does those wonderful patriotic pieces?
Saul Alinsky dedicated his rules for radicals to Lucifer.
A number of leading Feminazis were certifiably crazy and and they posited that “crazy” doesn’t really exist, that mental institutions merely exist to stifle and control those who think differently.
Except as we have released the masses from the mental institutions we have seen truly crazy people living on the streets and some who are “medicated” to pass for normal flip out and go on rampage killings.
Crazy does exist.
The Left is pro-chaos. There are even activists who discuss their love of chaos.
Smash the state
Smash the patriarchy
Smash the church
They don’t talk about building a society.
They rave about starting a Communist revolution.
That never turns out well.
>>The Left is all about compromise.
As in “let’s compromise your principles!”
Oppose abortion? You have to fund them.
Oppose same sex marriage? You have to observe and celebrate them.
Support the police? They’ve been ordered to stand down while crowds of Marxists harass you to give the fist salute and kiss their boot.
The left/progressives/cultural Marxists want to, and have worked hard to, break the moral compasses of the moral.
They themselves have relative morality; their fake compass points wherever they want it to.
“I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the left doesn’t have one.”
I disagree with Prager. The left does have a moral compass, it’s just that it’s nothing like ours.
The left’s moral compass is based on equality of results. They cannot abide the reality that some people are more successful in life than others and want to do everything in their power to alter that reality by whatever means at their disposal, including torture and death.
It always fails because it starts with the false proposition that we’re all equal. Races are equal, genders are equal, individuals are equal. When you start with a false proposition and base all your policies on that you’re going to end up with a disaster in your hands like the soviet union, cuba, N Korea, cambodia, venezuela.
For those of you who didn’t read the article, the crux is really about the moral relativism inherent in Marxist ideologies such as the modern American anarcho-socialist movement. Yes, Marxism preaches the absolute necessity of moral relativism in order to push forward revolutionary socialism into the ultimate transformation into Communism. To Marxists, truth is objective and must be used to serve the narrative only. What is “racist” today may be totally socially acceptable tomorrow if the narrative warrants it. What is immoral today may be moral tomorrow, and vice versa, if it serves the revolution. That is at the heart of Marxism.
So, are leftists the same thing as sociopaths?
The Left’s moral compass isn’t broken, it just has reverse polarity.
The people proposing equality and sharing resources/wealth always wind up in positions of absolute power, authority, and wealth. They don’t dig a ditch or live in a tower among the commoners or go without a healthy pension.
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