Leftism: United in Violence
Strange Bedfellows And The Bloody Ties That Bind Them
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It's 六四 Liu-si, or six-four, the fourth day of June. The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre seems like a fitting time to drop this piece on why Leftism is more a collection of murderers than it is a collection of ideas. That it is more about crushing everything under the boot heel of good intentions than it is about actual good intentions.
It's the first weekend in June and already we have a new terror attack to keep the news feeds occupied. People are going to talk about Palestine and they're going to talk about Israel and they're going to talk about free speech.
Which is all fine and well, I suppose.
A pattern is emerging: Because the Left is the political home of Americans who actively seek to foment violence, the Left is emerging as the political home of both Islamist extremists and LGBTQ extremists alike. Strange bedfellows to be sure! Never mind the fact that these 2 factions espouse diametrically opposed worldviews–their willingness to use force and terror to achieve political aims unites them in blood.
The Left is pulling itself apart and, as the more reasonable members of its constituency leave her ranks, the remaining numbers of violent and crazy people naturally occupy a larger proportion of the remnant.
That can explain why it seems Leftist political violence is more prevalent now.
But it's also summer in a Trump administration and we can expect violence to spiral out of control. If you recall the summers of 2016 - 2020, the Left at that time was viewed generally as a lot more legitimate than it is today. This meant paid protesters were given the benefit of the doubt, allowing them free reign to loot, riot, and commit violence while police stood by and watched. So I don't think what we're seeing is a true increase in violence. This isn't merely a fearful Leftist political class desperate to reassert its lost dominance.
The fact is, Leftism has always been extremely violent. Generations of institutional support for Leftism have enabled its routine practice of violence. Politicians, pundits, and media once offered a convenient smoke screen that obfuscated the fact that where Leftist political thought maintained dominance, bloodshed, and violence were everyday affairs.
Consider the damage, previously reported, about the numbers of abortions performed last year in the United States alone. And this year, we're on track for similar damage with over 383,000 US abortions.
Abortion is the darling of the American political Left. Go back to the election newscasts of 2024 and every other word was either abortion or some focused-grouped euphemism like "reproductive care." The corpses of the millions of unborn are an undeniable legacy of Democrats.
But they exhibit this millstone around their necks like it is pure bling. Yet we never call them out for it.
We're polite. We understand that, according to their own arguments, they don't believe that unborn humans are fully human. So they say.
I think the unspoken truth behind the Left's embracing of abortion is that they don't care about death at all. They can't let that cat out of the bag because fear of death is also how they like to control the masses. It's always "Do as I say or millions may die!" And meanwhile? Millions are dying. By their hands.
Remember, if you don't approve of the trans mental illness, you're "denying trans people their existence." That's a phrase that's meant to catastrophize something as benign as a scientifically accurate opinion on biological reality. The idea is to push the narrative that refusing to capitulate to their insanity will result in the fantastical deletion of trans people from reality itself. Conservative ideas as Infinity Gems, I guess.
That line, like the many lines about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian babies dying every minute, does more than ratchet up the rhetoric in order to delegitimize contrary opinions. Its main function is to legitimize violence as a valid and necessary response to losing the battle of truth and logic.
That's right, they know they don't have truth or logic on their side; their plans include a violence contingency for when they inevitably lose the argument. Further proof that it has never been about acceptance or love or tolerance but about lowering our guard so we don't expect the knife.
That's why Leftist protests become Leftist riots at the drop of a hat. Those protests aren't supposed to convince anyone to believe as they do. Who would be convinced by their rambling screeches or nudity or undignified displays of sadomasochism? No one. That's the point. Leftist protests aren't about evangelizing a populace through sharing ideas. They're really warnings. It's how Leftist tell the rest of us that they represent a large contingent of mentally unstable people who appear incapable of resisting the urge to harm others.
Leftist protests are peaceful in the same way a warning shot is peaceful.
It's the bare minimum of caution they feel obliged to convey. The idea is to let you know that it's not about choice. It's never been about choice.
It's only ever been about power.
Let's take a look at the past few years again.
Remember the 2020 Summer of Love? According to data compiled by Real Clear Politics in 2021, that months-long protest in reaction to "racially motivated" "police violence" resulted in upwards to $2 Billion dollars in damages and as many as 20 deaths along with thousands of assaults.
And that's just one summer of protests.
What about the summers before and since?
Or better yet, what about the death tolls exacerbated by Leftist policies? Policies like defund the police, allowing unchecked criminal migration, or conducting proxy wars against Russia, or undermining Israel?
People never talk about the 25 bombings committed by the Weather Underground in 1975 alone. This despite the fact that those attacks were successfully carried out on high profile targets like the US Capitol and the Pentagon.
We've seemed to gloss over the mutilating process they call "gender-affirming care." We seldom cite the data on the massive uptick in suicidal ideation that this procedure inflicts on its survivors.
We aren't talking about how Leftist policies promote poverty which leads to inevitable large increases in drug use and violent crime.
We aren't talking about the numbers of people now dead from blood clots and cancers because they were lied to or coerced by Leftists into taking a "vaccine" that doesn't even protect from the disease it's ostensibly designed to protect against.
No, instead, we talk about Leftist hypocrisy. "They said Musk is a Nazi but they're the ones attacking Israel."
Ooooo! Sick burn!
Really. It's time to address the facts. This isn't about politics. It's not about inconsistent messaging. It's not about having a slightly different world view or opinion about how government and citizens should interact. The Left are violent people. They burn down homes, destroy buildings, commit deliberate vehicular homicide, shoot up schools, obliterate businesses.
Conservatives on the other hand tend to play it much too safe. Consider the blood-soaked history of the Left. Now consider how it's always the Left that's constantly playing rhetorical games when characterizing the Right. The example above about scientifically accurate gender concepts causing transgenders to be erased from existence is only a recent example.
Many of us can remember when Democrats ran ads with Republican candidate Paul Ryan rolling wheelchaired grandma off a cliff.
And as I've said before, the Left doesn't hesitate to lay the legacy of the National Socialist Party's Hitler and his Nazi movement in the laps of small government Conservatives.
So what good are we doing when we complain about something as inconsequential as the Leftwing hypocrisy? They're hypocrites. They know they're hypocrites. They know this because they're lying about who they are in the first place. Calling them out on it is a lot like calling out a professional athlete for being athletic. It's their nature.
They're certainly thrilled we tend to draw the line at calling them hypocrites and liars.
As far back as the late 19th century Karl Marx promoted the idea that all societal change is the result of violence, which he likened to the "midwife of every society pregnant with a new [society]." He also described the working class as the "executioner" of the traditional social order.
Both Marx and Engels envisioned a social order that they themselves termed "the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Leon Trotsky, who led the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, was known for his brutality and openly endorsed terrorism as a necessary tool to suppress not only counter revolution but to also keep the working class in line. "The man who repudiates terrorism in principle—i.e., repudiates measures of suppression and intimidation towards determined and armed counter-revolution—must reject all idea of the political supremacy of the working class and its revolutionary dictatorship."
Stalin and Lenin were even less diplomatic in their word choice and more brutal in their actions. Lenin praised the wholesale slaughter of the kulaks. Stalin went further advocating for the total elimination of the kulaks as a class arguing that, "To make an omelet, you must break eggs."
And it was Mao who said that, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." This coming from the man who promoted the Cultural Revolution which saw the death of upwards to 2 million of China's own people. I guess we know who had the gun barrels in that scenario.
Ask yourself about the the kind of people who are attracted to these ideas: Do they join Leftist causes because they're sincerely interested in making the world a better place?
History shows people who embrace violence as a necessary or inevitable or even legitimate extension of Leftist political philosophy never succeed in righting the wrongs they perceive. They spill other people's blood, and in the end only succeed in making everything worse.
Leftism isn't a legitimate point of view. It isn't an imperfect idea or a well-meant philosophy with some rough edges. It's the single most destructive force in modern civilization. It has a death toll that makes the Black Plague look like a case of the sniffles. Leftism has no place in civilized discourse and needs to be purged from the system like snake venin from the veins.
Yet it's the Left that doesn't hesitate to call down the mobs to trample we Conservatives into the blood-soaked earth.
What are we doing? Patting ourselves on the back for our restraint in not going so far as to call them out for their murderous ways and tell the full truth? That doesn't make us saints. Nor does it make us better people.
Just the opposite. Our rhetorical restraint makes us negligent in our duty to protect our fellow man from the Left's ideological tsunami of oppression and death.
It is imperative that we call out the Left for their history of extreme violence and bloodshed. Now more than ever, it's clear they have no defense. For example, politically speaking, there should be no connection between an unhinged Trans activist conducting a mass shooting spree and a radical Islamist doing the same thing.
Except that there is. They're both Leftists.
The Left doesn't have a violence problem. America (and the world) has a Leftist problem.
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