What Fuels The Left
Great post by Myrhaf as a part of his series on the evasion festival in Denver:
Biden said we are losing the American dream. Right — we are. Why is that? Why was the American dream strong in the 19th century and now it is in trouble? Could it possibly be the growth of the welfare state? Could it be that replacing individualism with collectivism destroys the American dream? Could it be that everything the Democrats stand for destroys the American dream?
The dream has been hijacked by a complex rebellion against reality which aims to fulfill a desire to enjoy the benefits of an exciting and fulfilling life without the requisite costs of thought, action and justice. In the last 50 years the left discovered that, courtesy of the deadly combo of altruism and non-objective law, they could hack into the law of causality. They realized swinging the altruistic (mob-rule) club hard enough could indeed create a scenario where one can wallow in convenient passivity while the energy and productivity of others provides the means. As long as the wallowers and their henchmen didn’t push too hard the producers would retain their desire to live, and would stay in the game despite the gun in their side.
I see it daily - intelligent and creative men who are driven to think, produce and succeed who think nothing about the maze of theft they’re herded through along the way. If only they had the clarity of mind to stop supporting their own destroyers.
The Democrats are a party of ignorant altruists. At this late date, you have to be stupid to want more government control over the economy and to think it will work. There has been much stupidity on display for the last three days. I think deep down the more intelligent Democrats understand that socialism will not work, but they evade in order to keep the impracticality of socialism unclear and undefined.
I think a large percentage have an intuitive sense that full Socialism won’t work, but see “Socialism-Lite” (slightly more statist than our current system) as the answer. I think what’s unclear and undefined are the exact ingredients of the “lite” version. They know they want to control everything, but in order for their project to continue they realize they must show some restraint. They’re constantly prancing along the line that represents the breaking point. The more nihilist variants disrespect or disregard the threshold. They subscribe to the mindset in full, but don’t have the sense to realize that a shrugging by Atlas would end the game. The more “practical” segment has enough sense to keep “extremists” in line because they realize the producers must be alive and participating in order for the whole production to work.
