Lord Long Rod
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Don’t you support the First Amendment? Then you must support pornography in your kids’ middle school library! Otherwise, you are a FASCIST!!
Don’t you support democracy? Then you must support shutting down MAGA’s ideas! Otherwise, you are worse than HITLER!!
Don’t you support gender equality? Then you must allow your 10 year old to attend sexually explicit drag shows. Otherwise, you are a NAZI!!
It’s all rather intellectually simplistic, isn’t it? To be a leftist you are relieved of the burden of telling the complete truth. Forget context, nuance, and complexity. You just boil every issue down to its simplest form so everbody understands (misunderstands) it and to make it a compelling, a priori proposition. It’s not even simplistic. This approach is anti-intellectualism. It fosters misleading and false narratives.
Why do we see such rhetorical garbage? Because the left is indoctrinated with collectivism ideals as opposed to individualism. Our constitutional republic is founded on the idea that rights and liberties are vested in the individual, not group identity. Among other things, this approach tends to promote the decentralization of power. Collectivism, on the other hand, is happy to disregard individual rights for the benefit of the collective. This, of course, paves the way to authoritarianism. This is why socialism, even “democratic socialism” always will lead to authoritarianism.
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Don’t you support democracy? Then you must support shutting down MAGA’s ideas! Otherwise, you are worse than HITLER!!
Don’t you support gender equality? Then you must allow your 10 year old to attend sexually explicit drag shows. Otherwise, you are a NAZI!!
It’s all rather intellectually simplistic, isn’t it? To be a leftist you are relieved of the burden of telling the complete truth. Forget context, nuance, and complexity. You just boil every issue down to its simplest form so everbody understands (misunderstands) it and to make it a compelling, a priori proposition. It’s not even simplistic. This approach is anti-intellectualism. It fosters misleading and false narratives.
Why do we see such rhetorical garbage? Because the left is indoctrinated with collectivism ideals as opposed to individualism. Our constitutional republic is founded on the idea that rights and liberties are vested in the individual, not group identity. Among other things, this approach tends to promote the decentralization of power. Collectivism, on the other hand, is happy to disregard individual rights for the benefit of the collective. This, of course, paves the way to authoritarianism. This is why socialism, even “democratic socialism” always will lead to authoritarianism.
