There seems to be a lot of people wrestling with what appears to be illogic or psychological problems (e.g., projection) from the left.
In my limited but not trivial experience, I have known many people who are reasonably intelligent adults (say, IQ>100), with access to knowledge and at least the basic ability to integrate and understand things, who nevertheless do or say things that make no sense, usually coming from the left side of life.
There is always a temptation to dismiss them as uninformed or playing out psychological issues, or the like.
This is usually not a productive way to understand and deal with such people. That’s my experience.
They are dangerous. They mean you ill. They know, if not exactly, in general terms how destructive or illogical their positions are, but they have other goals and that destruction is either irrelevant or part of what they are after. If after almost a year of back and forth over the Dem health care proposals, someone supported Obamacare, they did NOT do so out of genuine concern for people’s health or because they thought it would save money. If they were ignorant of basic issues such as the economics or fiscal incentives this bill creates, it is only because they chose not to look into it, and that was a conscious choice.
It all reminds me of a lot of the more rabid anti-war protests of ca. 2003-2008, when some people on the right finally realized, “They aren’t for peace, they’re on the other side.”
Don’t tell me about how the left projects their own actions onto the tea-partiers. Don’t tell me that it’s hard to figure out what are Obama’s goals.
Look at what they do, not what they say (at least not what they say when they’re blowing smoke, by all means what they say among each other is relevant and a form of action); assume their actions are rational. Figure out where their actions lead, that’s where they want to go.
No more psychologizing them, dismissing them as kooks or lightweights. That’s like the people in the USSR in teh 1930s whose relatives were shot or hauled off to the Gulag, appealing to Stalin… “if only Stalin knew, he would stop this injustice,” they said. With the benefit of hindsight, we look at them as fools. But many here and elsewhere are being just as foolish, now.
The left intensely dislikes the USA and wants to see it humbled. They hate the private sector and the entrepreneurial class; they will take their money and support (as for ObamaCare, from Big Pharma and some of the insurers, etc), but in the end you are just kulaks to them.
This is for real. It is not a drill. It is not a parlor game.
The GOP did not use it’s opportunity to “defund” teh Left because too many of them thought this was just politics as usual. If the GOP ever gets back into power (a big if), they cannot make that mistake again. That sounds like a call fro ideological purity… I don’t know. you have to get control and probably can’t do that by reading people out of the party. But there is also sucha thing as party discipline, which the Dems just demonstrated. If conservatives ever get another chance, they can’t waste it or it will be their last.
