How the Left is Accomplishing it's Goals

 by

        M. Richard Maxson

     The Left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. They are the powerful elite believe that they have wisdom superior to the masses and that they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Why they would imagine that they know what is best for people who are far poorer than they are, and with far fewer options, is one of the many mysteries of our world. Such a practice differs only in degree, but not kind, from slavery. 

      What are their core beliefs today and how do they promote their goals? 

• They start by  twisting the meaning of words such as liberal, compassion, justice and many others into their opposites with  doublespeak. In the US language has been appropriated in order to engineer a seismic shift in attitudes, concealed by a mind-bending reversal of the meaning of words. It is this hijacking of language and thought itself that has done so much to destroy any common understanding of the political ‘center ground’, the lethal confusion that has so unfortunately polarized political debate  that has precious little to do with reality.

•  They have hijacked the center-ground of politics. Left-wing ideology is now falsely said to constitute the moderate center-ground, while the true center-ground is now vilified as ‘the right’. Asserting that left-wing ideology is really ‘centrist’, the left has succeeded in presenting extremist, antisocial, and the belief that a society's political and social institutions are so bad that they should be destroyed. Their ideas are stated as unarguably good, and all dissent is promptly vilified as ‘extreme’

•   The onslaught of ‘political correctness’ – where concepts are turned into their polar opposite in order to give culprits a free pass if they belong to certain groups designated by the left as ‘victims’. They are thus deemed to be incapable of doing anything wrong, while groups designated as ‘oppressors’ can do no right.

• The use of the term "racist" to silence debate. An example of this is why do they afford next-to-no news coverage of Arab atrocities?  It's because there is a double standard. It is their belief that the Third World does not subscribe to the same ethical beliefs as the West about the value of human life. The West therefore was not entitled to judge any mass killings in the Third World by its own standards. For them that is racist. To the contrary, these views they have expressed amounted to pure racism. They are in effect saying that citizens of a Third World country are not entitled to the same assumptions of human rights, life, and liberty as those in the developed world.

 This twisted thinking is what now passes for ‘Progressive’ thinking in Britain and America. The Progressives actually abandon the oppressed of the world to their fate, bemoaning their plight while sanctimoniously condemning ‘the right’ for its heartlessness! American Progressives see people in a role much like that of sheep, and see themselves as their shepherds.  The Progressive vision  is not just a vision of the world, it is also a vision of themselves -- a very flattering vision of people trying to save the planet, rescue the exploited, create "social justice" and otherwise be on the side of God and the angels. This is an exalting vision that few are ready to give up. It is a chilling vision for those of us who value freedom and live in reality.