"You cannot understand the left if you do not understand that Leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some Left-wing Christians' and Jews' claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those characteristics is dogma. People who believe in Leftism have as many dogmas as the most fundamentalist Christian."
When your idiot Liberal brother-in-law immediately shouts about Big Corporations when you try to explain why Big Government is bad....here's a handy argument.
"How can anyone who thinks rationally believe that big corporations rather than big governments pose the greatest threat to humanity? The answer is that it takes a mind distorted by leftist dogma. If there is another explanation, I do not know what it is."
Dennis Prager is just so damned smart; both thinking & communicating with crystal clarity.
The Gunslinger
If you play the liberal word association game, the basis for some beliefs starts to reveal itself.
ReplyDeleteFor example and to start, the purpose of business is to make money and we all know money is the root of all evil. It is ridiculously simplistic and distorts Biblical teaching but builds the mythos that business will do anything to make money and big business makes big money and must be, by extension, big evil. If business made no money and sold everything at cost, all would be well, maybe.
For government, the association is that it takes care of its people. Liberals often say that without even fathoming the idea of the posessive pronoun that implies government owns people. Nonethless, that makes big government good and a check on the evil of big business.
The same excercise can be used for labor that it represents workers in their struggle against big business which has already been established as evil, hence big labor must be good.
The perversion starts with the distortion of business and the assumption anyone trying to make money is evil. This sucks some religious people in as well.
The statists don't believe this crap but it is exactly the simple type of associations they need to build political power. Add a healthy dose of envy and you can build an ideology and a power base. It gets quite a bit more complicated that's where it all starts. The followers are just ignorant, swallow the associations and the statists take advantage of that.
I once wrote an article titled Unholy Trinity (Big Government, Big Labor and Big Business) but it didn't focus on the development of the dogma. Perhaps I should revisit that.