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It is impossible to understand what is happening to America — and to the rest of the West — without understanding the most dynamic ideology of the last hundred years: leftism.
We need to begin with the understanding that leftism (or “progressivism”) and liberalism are not only not the same ideologies, they are in fact opposed to each other on virtually every major issue.
Leftism and liberalism have only two things in common:
One is belief in big government, which, given that individual and societal liberty decline as the state grows, is a significant similarity.
The other Left-liberal commonality is antipathy to the Right. This is even more important than commitment to big government because it explains why liberals vote for the Left despite the fact that liberals differ with far more left-wing positions than with conservative positions.
Unlike the Left, most liberals love their country. Unlike the Left, most liberals do not believe that there are more than two sexes/genders; that prepubescent boys and girls who claim they are members of the other sex should be given hormone blockers; that girls under 21 should be allowed to have their breasts surgically removed; or that men who say they are women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. So, too, liberals do not believe that capitalism is evil, that America is systemically racist, that all whites are racist, that Israel is the villain in the Middle East and Zionism is racist.
So, then, given that those leftist positions are as destructive as they are absurd, how are we to explain leftism?
This question has preoccupied me all my adult life. It is why I was one of fewer than 10 graduate students in all of Columbia University to major in what was called “Communist Affairs.” (I was a fellow at the Russian Institute at Columbia’s School of International Affairs.) In other words, I have studied the Left all my life.
Early on, I recognized that the Left opposes liberty — the clearest example being that wherever the Left gains power, whether at a university or in society as a whole, it suppresses free speech — and that it destroys everything it touches. But while I (and many others) have always understood that the Left (again, not liberalism) has always, everywhere, been a force for evil, I needed to understand why.
How can people believe that men give birth; that a country to which more than 4 million black people have emigrated and which twice elected a black president is systemically racist; that the freest country in the Middle East, one in which millions of Arabs live as equal citizens, is the villain, while its barbaric enemies are worthy of support?
Here are some answers:
Throughout their history, Americans have had three great providers of meaning: family, religion and patriotism. Leftists lack the latter two (indeed, they seek to get rid of them), and increasing numbers of them lack the first. Since human beings cannot live without meaning — it is as great a need as food, and even greater than sex — they seek meaning elsewhere. So they create new meanings through creating secular religions: socialism, communism, feminism, environmentalism, DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), “anti-racism,” anti-Zionism, LGBTQIA+ pride, and trans activism, among others.
All these are united by one overarching aim: destroying the institutions of Western civilization (e.g., religion, art, music, the nuclear family, moral norms, schools and universities, free speech, capitalism, even medicine).
Those of us who appreciate Western civilization and wish to preserve it (while, of course, correcting its flaws) cannot understand why anyone would want to destroy it. That is a major reason it is so difficult for non-leftists to understand the Left.
After decades of mulling this over, I think I have discovered one answer that is not obvious even to all leftists.
What opened my eyes are the Left’s beliefs that men can become women and women can become men; men give birth; there are more than two genders/sexes; men who say they are women should be placed in women’s prisons, women’s colleges and women’s shelters; men who say they are women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports; and children should be taken to drag queen shows.
All these positions represent … chaos.
The Left’s trans-positions are the most obvious areas of Left-induced chaos, but there are many others. These include the Left’s contempt for the ideal of the nuclear family (i.e., a married mother and father and children); its support for defunding police; its raising the dollar value of stolen goods that qualifies as a felony, which can only incentivize theft; and its support for progressive district attorneys.
Fighting crime represents order; crime represents chaos.
And why does leftism seek chaos? Because the Left hates the opposite of chaos: order. And order ultimately represents a religious view of life. Order represents divine order. The proof is that no religious people say, “Men give birth.” Not all secular people believe men give birth, there are more than two sexes, men can compete in women’s sports, children should be exposed to drag queen shows, or children should be given hormone blockers if they claim to be a member of the other sex. But only secular people believe those things. Virtually no one who believes in the Bible and the God of the Bible believes them. We believe in a God-created social order.
Chaos is the normal state of the world. The second verse of the Bible states that the world was in a chaotic state. God then made order. Which is why the Left is undoing it.
Perfect Dennis. I’m firmly convinced that the first step to resolving this chaos, before the world becomes islamic, is to decentralise just about everything.
The two party systems across the western world have led to globalisation and mass government, centralised CONTROL.
We decentralise by using a proportional representation system.
If the left really believes in equality then they must support that too but they won’t, they will say “Hitler came to power with that”
Just who is paying for their Transportation anyway George Soros perhaps?
Soros is a pedo-Illuminati secret crime society, Satanist theosophist criminal.
Yes, and the problem with these twisted megalomaniacs is that they have practically unlimited amounts of money to sow their destruction, while the rest of us watch in horror the shit show that is unfolding before our eyes.
No, they don’t seek chaos,except as a means to their ultimate goal, which is its opposite—the kind of ultra structured hell that Klaus Schwab and John Kerry, and the WEF crowd have in store for us, where all of life’s decisions will be made for them. As for their motive in seeking this, it goes no further than that some people—many people, in fact, are no good, and enjoy being that way. The Nazis, you’ll recall, were not known for introspection.
Be more PRECISE: the Satanist theosophist, pedo-Illuminati run the Bilderbergs, Bohemian Groves, WEFs aka front criminal organizations pushing the HATE UPSET, NWO.
I am disheartened that our side is complicit in our demise by allowing the statist left to hijack the language. I strongly suggest that we do not refer to the left as liberals. And that includes you Mr. Prager!
Narrative is everything and we have let them control it for far too long!
Try telling Prager ANYTHING! He knows it all.
Like most of us, he does not know everything, but what he does have is education, a broad world view, the courage of his convictions and common-sense values that he is not timid about expressing.
The Left is engaging in an epistemological war, an attempt to convince people that they lack the ability to separate truth from fantasy, Once confidence in the mind is lost, helplessness and obedience will follow.
It’s also the reason that the Left loves protests. Protests are no more than begging the all powerful state to drop you a few crumbs. It is a confession of helplessness. Helplessness is the great Leftist virtue since by their standards, you are noble because you are helpless and because you are helpless, you will obey.
Exactly! Well said.
Why Prager seeks to distinguish and give cover to the liberals is baffling. The left and the liberals are one and the same at this point. They jointly hate the conservatives so much, they would destroy the country rather than admit they were wrong. The liberals vote for the hard left, support them, protest and riot with them, call for the genocide of Jews with them and promote lawlessness with them. It seems Prager is so removed from reality he has missed the fact that it is no longer the 1960s. His philosophy is out of date.
Prager is a normie who thinks we can somehow assert our moral, stoical tribe’s will over the nihilist, leftarded degenerates “tribe” and put all their 1st Amendment-condoned, degeneracy back into some closed box–when there IS NO BOX; the Free Masonic, 1787 U.S. Constitution incubates degeneracy like pushed by secret societies (pedo-Illuminati) who are allowed to take-over the country.
Prager is a civilian idiot who panders that events just happen by public moods when the harsh reality requiring hard men with guns to solve–not flabby Dennis–is that the Satanic theosophist, pedo-Illuminati secret crime society miss-runs the world; creating the horrid secular humanist, economic exploitation, immoral, tolerate-everything anarchy, Amerika Babylon in 1787 from the Christian Puritan Pilgrim colonies that incubates all sorts of Pandora’s Box degeneracy–like grievance-mining, nihilist leftards. You can’t up Prager’s game he is a know-it-all.
Dennis, you don’t remember me but when I lived in LA in the 1980’s we had a long conversation at the Kosher Butcher, talking about fountain pens. Anyway, its interesting that you say this because this is exactly the idea that I have been thinking about since Simchat Torah this year. The world was created by HaShem’s Word, which created Order through separation and organization. He separated Light from darkness. He separated land from water. Later, when the Tower was built, order was restored by separating people into different languages. All this leads later to the creation of the Jewish People, who are Holy because of our separation from the other nations. And our Holiness comes from more separation – the 7th day from the others. Animals that are permitted from those that are not. Behaviors that are permitted from those that are not. The Left stands for exactly the opposite. As you pointed out, they want us to not know the difference between men and women. They don’t want us to have national borders or pride in nationality. They have new versions of good and evil – White people are evil from birth. Others – thieves,murderers and rapists – can do no wrong because of the color of their skin or history of “oppression.” All of this is not just evil – it is specifically the opposite of the JudeoChristian values that make our country great. On a final note, I was watching the movie channel and the host talked about heroes and villains in movies. And what he said was that movies are built around heroes and villains. The villains create chaos. And the heroes bring or restore order. Of course, many of these movies -and the entire industry – were created by Jews applying Jewish values – Judeo Christian values of good vs. evil. It all makes sense. Ultimately, these Left values must be rejected by our culture. And soon. Because as these values and institutions are destroyed, its very hard to get them reinstated. Thanks so much!