I finished the book.
United In Hate, by Jamie
Glazov.
And a more frightening, horrifying, depressing dissection of the Left is hard to imagine.
Glazov's theory covers all the facts, unlike all the other notions we toss around, as to why the Left acts and speaks as it does. And I've got to admit, I'm on the way to being convinced that he's right.
But, if he is, we're got trouble, my friends.
You've probably heard Mike Savage's opinion (and book title),
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.Jamie
Glazov's argument is even more extreme. In a nutshell, he claims that Leftism is a psychosis, based on re-directed (projected) self-hatred, alienation, and a death wish.
And he's pretty damned convincing. When you look at the actions, and listen to the words of the Left, it makes sense. But if you believe it, it makes persuasion or honest debate, or the possibility of convincing them of their error utterly impossible.
For a long time, we have assumed that when shown the undeniable truth, the average Leftist will accept it; change their mind; see the light. I have talked about them all living in a "Blue Bubble" unaware of the truth because they live in an echo chamber where only their own opinions and points-of-view have currency. I assumed on some level, that if they were removed from it, and had to live in the "real" world, they'd eventually come to their senses. I think a lot of us thought...or at least hoped that was true.
Like the old joke: "A Conservative is a Liberal who's been mugged."
But
Glazov demonstrates with the historical behavior of the Left that that simply doesn't work. They have a deep-seated, psychotic, emotional investment in totalitarianism that is not vulnerable to intellectual argument, truth or facts—or even to the threat of self-annihilation.
The Left has supported and adored Stalin, Mao, Castro, Che, Pol Pot, Arafat, Chavez, Al-
Queda, the Palestinians, the
Sandinistas. Whoever is perpetrating the worst possible and the most widespread terror and horror on their people, are the
Left's special heroes.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
And he shows that when these monsters were most popular and deified by the Left, they were at the height of their murderous bloodletting. The more gruesome and enormous their crimes, the more the Left was infatuated. The more innocents were being slaughtered, the more blood, literally flowed in the streets, the more horrific the tortures, the more hell-like the conditions they created in their countries, the more intensely the Left idolized them.
As an example, note how Red China is no longer the darling of the Left. They don't castigate it, but they also don't sing paeans of glory to it either. That happened only during the Cultural Revolution, when hundreds of millions of Chinese were being murdered. Since then, as the fierce murderous mania exhausted itself, especially since they have embraced capitalism...they have become less beloved, and are mostly ignored by the Left,
even though they are still the biggest communist "paradise" on the planet. The Left tired of their middle-aged lover, and threw him over for a new, virile and exciting one....
Islamic Supremacists.Leftist homosexuals support a regime that would slaughter them.
Leftist feminists support a regime that would mutilate, rape and enslave them.
Leftist intellectuals support a regime who would imprison or execute them.
Leftist writers support a regime who would censor and silence them.
Leftist "
peaceniks" support a regime that spills oceans of innocent blood.
We all see it every day. We wonder "Don't they know what would happen if their side won?" We even try to use that as an argument against them. It never works. They never change their mind. They
deny reality. Then, when the facts become just too glaring, they
justify it. And when it becomes globally obvious there is no justification, they
blame America. Or Israel.
Glazov calls that last "The Devil Made Me Do It" defense. And it always comes down to that. Because the facts always come out...so denial is frustrated. And there is never any logical justification for their
bloodlust...so justification is frustrated. In every single case, it eventually devolves down to "America (the Great Satan=Devil) made them do it".
And there is no shortage of Leftist rhetoric to that effect. They did it with the USSR, they did it with Red China, they did it with
Viet Nam, they did it with Nicaragua, they did it with Cuba, they did it with Afghanistan, they did it with Iraq, they do it with Venezuela, and they do it
every single day with the "Palestinians".
They demonstrate on campuses, they make pilgrimages to the countries ruled by the mad men, they slobber and kneel at their feet. And when they return, they sing their glorious praises, and they lecture us.
Glazov shows that in case after case, the Left supports the bloodiest, cruelest, most sadistic, most vicious, torturous despots in history—especially when they are at the height of their homicidal mania.
He makes the historical case that they only despise Hitler because he was a sworn enemy of Stalin. But they are enraptured by the
Islamists, who are today's Nazis, especially and including their fierce, unrelenting, soul-rupturing hatred of Jews and the intense desire for their complete annihilation.
When a Leftist pretends to despise Hitler, he is only doing so because he knows to admire him is to draw the enmity of the entire civilized world—and make him effectively impotent, and irrelevant in any adult conversation. There is no doubt that his actual behavior was in accord with all their other heroes and man-gods.
They've learned:
1) If you love Hitler, you're a skin-head
neo-
nazi which everyone despises & ignores.
2) If you love the Palestinians, you can be a respected university professor.
But it's just a word game. They are the same Reich. The Nazis created the Muslim Brotherhood, who wished to complete the "final solution" in the Middle East once Hitler had eliminated the "Jewish Problem" in Europe. The defeat of Germany prevented it at the time. But they have not changed their objective, as they make perfectly clear on a daily basis.
The Left is an adoring fan of
Hitlerism; they adore his "children", which closes the circle. They will stand with any life-hating, genocidal, mass murderer on the planet against the forces of freedom, light, God and goodness.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
But why do they choose heroes who detest them, who would destroy them?
Glazov believes it is self-hate, which while projected onto their own Western Culture, still exists within them, and like masochism hiding in sadism, they despise themselves, and long for their own deaths at the hands of their punishing god-men. They have a deep-seated, if unacknowledged death-wish.
Hollywood, our universities, and the Democrat Party are full of these psychopaths that
Glazov terms "believers". And one of them is now President of the United States. His friends and associates all his life have been of this psychotic clan. And he seems to be doing everything in his power to weaken the West and promote the forces of chaos.
His words are false, his actions are damaging, he clearly thinks America is The Problem, he has just sent $900 million dollars to
Hamas....for "humanitarian aid". Yeah. That's what they'll do with it. But he's in "denial" at this point, because he can get away with it. Soon he'll justify their killing of innocents, and soon he'll blame Israel and, ultimately, the United States.
I mean, he already has. Remember the "apology " on Arab TV?
Jamie
Glazov describes the psychological makeup of a typical Leftist as someone who is alienated from their culture, who doesn't have close and meaningful connections with other people, who feels empty, shiftless, who is hungry for meaning. Because of his alienation and loneliness, he comes to hate the culture in which he finds himself adrift, which provides no meaning, no sense of self for him. But he sees people leading happy, successful, meaningful lives all around him. And he comes to resent those people, and the culture in which they....but not he....was able to achieve them.
They are never people who are busy trying to make a living, or working to make ends meet. They are never the "miserable poor" they pretends to speak for.
They are the privileged ones who feel guilty, insecure, undeserving. They are alienated, lonely and miserable. They are the classic psychotic "lone gunman" who projects his self-hatred onto his own society which has failed to meet his emotional, spiritual and psychological needs.
But they are not "courageous" enough to pull the trigger themselves. They seek to live their hatred vicariously through the murderous behavior of their chosen god-men.
The furious bloodbath of millions by their surrogates is an orgasmic explosion of their own rage and hatred. A tantrum of self-absorbed, inhuman selfishness. The bigger, the better. The more blood, the more satisfying.
As I am writing this, I realize that this diagnosis does not only apply to the sphere about which
Glazov writes, the support of totalitarian monsters by the Left throughout all of modern history. I realize it poisons every facet of their thinking.
They are virulent sadists, they revel in the pain, poverty, enslavement and misery of others...
...for social justice
...for the children
...for the environment
If you pay the least attention to their policies, every one is designed to harm someone. And the greater the harm, the more they celebrate and support it.
Birth control is not enough. Abortion is not enough. Partial-Birth abortion is not enough.
We must have infanticide!The sadist Left is not happy unless what they do hurts people, businesses, happiness, ease, joy, success, prosperity. They are not happy unless they are making others miserable. They say they want freedom, but support Castro & Chavez. They say they want women's rights, but support
Islamofascists. They say they want prosperity for the poor, but support the destruction of capitalism.
They lie. Just like Obama. Everything they say is a front to cover their true psychotic longing...to make everyone else as pinched, humorless, soulless and miserable as they are, and to end it all in a blaze of blood and glory.
And so it follows that the bigger the misery, the more millions of people that are murdered, tortured, raped, dismembered, beheaded, starved, enslaved and imprisoned, the happier the Left is.
They cannot be persuaded, they cannot be debated, they cannot be educated, they cannot be saved. They can only be
stopped.
The Gunslinger
