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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (75137)	10/23/2009 7:56:52 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Yes. He's right on. Leftism is definately driven by rage, hatred and myths about "social justice" are how they make their hatred seem righteous. Of course the evil rich are always just a tiny bit richer than themselves. "But shouldn't the lyric be "Til there are no poor no more'? Isn't that true social justice?" He stated with utmost certainty (from his standpoint, no rational debate was possible) that the wealthy in this country are wholly responsible for the world's misery and must be utterly destroyed by the most horrible means possible. "Then you want everyone to live in poverty?" I queried. "Absolutely," he replied. ...... Is a blind hatred of the "rich" driving much of the left's apparently self-destructive behavior? In a previous AT article, I concluded that the goals of the left are "abortion and eugenic elimination of the ‘undesirables', the euthanasia of the old and infirm, and the genocide of those who disagree." But what was missing from this evaluation is the ultimate motivation for these travesties. Is it all driven by obsessive rage and hate? ...... There appears to be an abundance of negative emotion in the leftist mind, but that is only part of the equation. Almost everyone, including the leftist, believes that they are basically good and decent human beings. This is true among the religious and atheists, and even thieves and murderers. I believe that in order to emotionally reconcile inherently "evil" feelings of hatred toward others, the leftist embraces "social justice" as a pious compensation. ......