So imagine you are in a relationship…
Imagine you are in a relationship and your significant other (SO) points out some of your potentially bad behavior. You have to defend yourself or acknowledge that you need to address an issue. One of the worst actions that people take is to find some potentially bad behavior in their SO, in which case, their own faults will never be addressed because they deflect.
Imagine the scenario reversed, where your SO is displaying bad behavior and you want to address it; yet he/she attacks you instead of discusses the topic at hand. Nothing would ever change. This is clearly unproductive behavior.
I criticize conservatives quite a lot. They tend to handle it well. It becomes a discussion; and if we want to distinguish between leftist and liberal, then the same reactions hold for liberals when I criticize them.
But leftists?…Now admittedly, I criticize leftists far more than any other group, but this happens to be the most unproductive, vicious socio-political group in the West right now. Every criticism becomes group warfare (one political party vs another), or a vicious ad hominem, appeals to authority, appeals to popularity…every conceivable argument except a discussion of the material I bring up.
There is a reason that the new pampered king is the leftist and the new jester is…everyone else. The left can’t meme because it has a limited perception of reality and humor requires a keen insight into reality. The left is humiliated at every turn with few exceptions. It is outwitted, out-humored, and as I have extensively proved in my “shitty blog”, it requires state action in order to be visible online.
The racial, ethnic, and gender groups that the left obsessively “helps” are rejecting the left by seeking other ideologies, but it’s worse than that. From marriage and cohabitation data/analysis, it has been shown that interethnic and interracial couplings are actually lower for the left than the right. Immigrants literally find the right more appealing.
The left aren’t rejects for innocuous or endearing reasons. They are rejects because they are dishonest, manipulative, entitled, and collective. The only thing the left has going for it is that narcissism is (theoretically) rare to observe in a leftist. Still, I would take a narcissist over someone who has so little confidence in himself that he rejects the philosophy of individualism.
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