Yes, Leftists are 'Evil.' Here’s How They Got That Way — and Why You’ll Never Change Them
Look to the moral foundations formed from the beginning.
Look to the moral foundations formed from the beginning.
www.americanthinker.com
16 Feb 2026 ~~ By Selwyn Duke
“They are programmed…,” Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind…. You are stuck with them.”
It’s common for people to say today when contrasting our two major ideological groups, “Conservatives think leftists are misguided; leftists think conservatives are evil.” I, though, am different.
I
know leftists are evil.
That is, practically speaking. Theologically speaking, I’m not judging their souls or inborn nature. Putting it plainly, however, and alluding to the reality that leftists have embraced evil, I will say they
are so. I’m going to now explain how they got that way, too, and why Bezmenov was right: You will never, ever change their minds.
One more caveat: Because what’s true in principle is not always true in the particular, there are exceptions to the above rule. This is evidenced by the leftists who get “red-pilled.” Now let’s proceed.
It’s common to hear warnings about the effects of modern education’s left-wing indoctrination. We’ve all heard the stories, too, about young people entering college seeming normal and then going haywire — and even, sometimes, disowning their parents over political differences. Yet believing education is the only, or even main, culprit misses much.
~Snip~
It’s so simple, perfect and demonic a scheme for creating citizens “
of intemperate minds” who’ll invite and deserve tyranny that the suspicious could almost think it’s a conspiracy, and suspicious theists could almost think it’s a conspiracy transcending man. For we’ve heard that “politics is downstream from culture,” but the cleverest beings know that culture is downstream
and upstream from human hearts.
Commentary:
Democrats rejected "God" three times during the 2012 Democrat National Convention. Yes, they abandoned The Creator long ago, however, they used to keep it quiet until 'Barack
OBomination' came on the scene. “America is no longer a Christian Nation.”
Like many others on this forum, I have spent much of my life wondering why Leftists are the way they are. I find it puzzling that two people, growing up in the same household, with the same parents and the same schools, can turn out so radically different.
I saw, when working in Healthcare, extremely intelligent people, Doctors, Nurses, and Technicians who were bright, smart, like-able, and principled in their work, yet were rabid Leftists in their personal life and supported all manner of Leftist policies.
Most often prepared to violate their Hippocratic oath in favor of the Leftist ideology.
Rather than justice, we have seen the Left uses Law as a weapon and only comply to the Law when convenient.
Marxist-Socialist Democrats reject God entirely. Many young people have been deprived of a faith to fall back on, though there are indications they are now searching.
There’s a lot of good content in this article. Oddly enough perhaps, it’s the Leftists who are most intent on inculcating views into young children. Who teaches your children?
For adults, it helps to have some non-political standards. For example, a major inconsistency means that something is wrong. It’s worth learning (and rejecting) the basic informal fallacies, for example the ad hominem fallacy.
The genius of the scientific method is hypothesis testing. One steps outside of reason in order to test reason. Look to see if you are right. It’s an acknowledgment that human reason, while at times incredibly powerful, is fallible.
The fundamental premise of the author is that who you are is often solidified in your first seven years of life. The author observes that
"...the “age of reason” has traditionally been considered seven..."
