A Fascinating Recap of the Motivations of the Left
Bruce Thornton posts a fascinating review of the twisted thinking of the Left. It’s a well-written, thoughtful read. Thanks to The Discerning Texan for the pointer.
VDH’s Private Papers::The Passion of the Left
But don’t confuse ‘progressives’ with the facts. Their melodrama of moustache-twirling capitalists and their Republican minions controlling the oafish masses with God, patriotism, and Wal-Mart is too flattering to the typical liberal’s elitist pretensions. In fact, this leftist narrative performs a debased religious function for the otherwise Godless. It identifies the wicked and the good and puts both into a justifying narrative replete with the promise of salvation (vote Democratic), holy writ (Michael Moore and the New York Times), thundering prophets (Al Gore), messiahs (Hillary, John, or Barack), the blessed saved (liberal Democrats), the evil damned (Republicans) and even apocalypse (global warming or another Republican president). And let’s not forget, it bestows status value as well, giving the liberal-progressive an exalted moral perch from which to look down on the masses stupefied by the machinations of their corporate overlords.
The proliferation of such pseudo-religions - faith-based narratives of meaning and value disguised as rationally derived political systems - is the tragic story of modernity, polluted as it is with the mountains of corpses sacrificed to failed gods. The 21st-century progressive church may appear less lethal than fascism or communism, but its eagerness to don the hair shirt of Western guilt and self-loathing is in the end as suicidal as the rants of Jim Jones in Guyana.
