Why I dislike leftists.

Posted: Mar 13, 2010

I dislike leftists for one reason, and that is the fact that they are mostly liars. Ask a right-winger if he's a capitalist and he'll say "Damn right, I am!" Ask a left-winger if she's a socialist, and she'll never admit it. Instead, she'll launch into a trillion reasons why she's not a socialist. Yet, at every opportunity, you'll hear her railing against the capitalist system and telling you why government is the answer to everything, why government should confiscate property or "wealth" (that dirty word happens to mean "anything you own") and give it to other people, why government should make decisions about the use of resources in society, and why capitalists are greedy pigs who should all be thrown into prison. Leftists are socialists, and that's okay. What isn't okay is that they are lying socialists. They're closet socialists. In a world of practical hetero-economism, they are heterophobes who hide behind the curtain with their microphone and wind machine, declaring themselves to be the victims of homoeconomophobia. I hate phonies, and have only met one leftist in my life who wasn't a phony. She declared herself to be a socialist straight up and proud of it. We went into battle, each of us determined to acknowledge the truth when it hit us between the eyes. Six months later, she was no longer a socialist, and in fact she had come to hate socialism. It's much like abortion. The truth is, you can't defend abortion on any grounds, and I say this as one who once never thought much about it. Dilate-scrape-so what? Then I got a look at an 8-month fetus, and a 6-month fetus, and a 3-month fetus and I tried to discern just when this little creature (whatever it was) became a "human being", and I was forced back, back, back to the moment of conception, when the BIOLOGICAL FATE of the organism was established as unequivocally human. There was never any chance that this creature was going to be a frog, or a centipede, or a kangaroo. It was human, and it was human from the moment of conception. Wow. We're talking utterly inescapable logic, not emotion, religion or anything else. So, then I thought about "rights". If the creature was human, we were weighing one human being's rights against another's. And there was no way I could make out that the mother's rights superceded those of the child. If anything, did we not have a greater obligation to the helpless? Funny how those who argue for "the poor", "the disadvantaged" in society do NOT argue for the truly disadvantaged, the unborn human. I hate liberals because their beliefs are based on "convenience", on "whatever feels good", and on class distinctions that they themselves should, by their own philosophy, most abhore. They support some classes but not others, and they believe in limited government only when it comes to interfering with their right to live their lives as it happens to be convenient to them. They, like anyone, could give all they own quite voluntarily to the poor, but they prefer to take it from others by force. They are just as likely to frequent the tax accountant to make sure that they do not pay one cent more than required as is the unabashed capitalist. They are, in short, the world's worst hypocrites. The only question i have is, who could possibly be a liberal and keep all these self-contradictory ideas straight in their minds? The answer, of course, is that the human mind is capable of playing any trick you care to conjure up, but cold hard logic is very hard to come by and it is not in the liberals' makeup to be intellectually honest with themselves - nor could they be, and remain socialists. Secretly, they know this. Afraid to articulate it even to themselves, liberals understand the fundamental cracks in their own logical foundations. Hence, whenever you begin to cut close to the bone, you will almost inevitably see the liberal becoming hysterical, almost as if their lives were being threatened. In a sense, of course, their lives ARE being threatened, and they will scratch, claw and strike out blindly to protect themselves. It would all be pathetically funny, if it were not that the charade prevents us from finding common ground among ourselves - a centric median, so to speak. Give me an unabashed, honest socialist any day rather than a lying liberal leftist. An honest socialist can be brought face-to-face with the inherent weaknesses of socialism, but it's a mug's game to talk to a lying liberal leftist, who either doesn't know why she thinks something - or doesn't think at all. ;