The Leftist Jihad Has Nothing To Do with Liberalism

bill“We’re liberals! We’re liberals. We’re not crazy tea-baggers,” Bill Maher protested after his televised argument with Ben Affleck about Islam.

“We are not bigoted people. On the contrary, we’re trying to stand up for the principles of liberalism!” Maher added. “I think we’re just saying we need to identify illiberalism wherever we find it in the world, and not forgive it because it comes from [a group] people perceive as a minority.”

But despite Maher’s protests, the majority of liberals would agree with Affleck that criticizing Islam is racist. Liberals claim that the Islamic State is Un-Islamic. It would be more accurate to state that liberals are illiberal. Liberalism, even the form that was in common usage not too long ago, is as dead as Lenin.

Ben Affleck isn’t a liberal. He’s an enthusiast of revisionist Communist historian Howard Zinn. The modern liberal of today is uninterested in identifying “illiberalism” since he is an illiberal man of the left. The most significant difference between the two is not simply political, but psychological. Liberals used to think about issues. Leftists respond to ideological cues while operating on a purely tribal wavelength.

Affleck’s assertion that criticizing Islam is racist is impossible to argue with. It’s completely wrong on multiple levels, but it’s not an argument. It’s a denunciation. It doesn’t advance an argument; it rejects the argument and the arguer as illegitimate. And it’s an ideological cue telling everyone else to follow.

Leftists don’t debate issues. That would be a liberal thing to do. Instead they seek to affirm a consensus. The consensus is reinforced by in-group flattery which convinces members that they are empathetic and enlightened people, while those outside the consensus are subjected to constant contempt and abuse. The denunciation places the target outside the consensus. Calling Maher a “racist” makes him a Tea Party member no matter how much he clings to a liberal identification. It makes him an outsider.

The USSR was every bit as “illiberal” as ISIS, but critics of it were damned as “red-baiters” and McCarthyists. Now critics of Islam are denounced as racists even though Islam is not a race.

Why are Stalin and Mohammed part of the consensus, but their liberal critics weren’t? The answer tells us a good deal about what the consensus really is and what it isn’t.

The things that Maher and Harris criticize Islam for, a lack of freedom, sexism and homophobia are not part of the consensus. Not when the flagship party of liberalism was also the party of segregation, the leading members of the golden family of liberalism were serial abusers of women and Bill, Hillary and Obama were against gay marriage before they were for it.

Islam is sexist, bigoted and totalitarian, but so was the Soviet Union. Their liberal defenders are utterly unconcerned, no matter how much they run their mouths about Republican racism and sexism.

Nearly every Muslim country locks up gay men, but so did nearly every Communist country.

Do you think that Ben Affleck is bothered by the fact that Doha and Dubai, whose film industries he has become entangled with, are built and run by slave labor? Or that homosexuality is criminalized? The same Hollywood leftists who put on their indignant faces over Proposition 8 shut up when they’re partying in one of the pleasure cities of the Gulf Muslims who do a lot more than refuse to recognize gay marriage. They’re not just hypocrites; they were never committed to gay rights.

Gays, feminists and Muslims are a means to the left. They are not the reason why the left does things.

The left builds coalitions of disruption with interest groups. It doesn’t care about those groups. It’s just using them to get what it really wants which is a totalitarian state in which the consensus can implement all of its horrible ideas without any interference. Muslims are the newest coalition member and their disruption skills are impressive. Just look at how they managed to turn the Bush Administration around.

That doesn’t mean that the left cares about Muslims. It would toss them under the bus before they could shout “Allah Akhbar” if it suited the consensus. The liberal defenders of Islam have chosen not to read the Koran. They know next to nothing about Islam except that it’s a minority group. And that’s how they like it. That way they can shout down any criticism with cries of “Racism” because they’re too lazy to even bother stringing enough letters together to shout “Islamophobe”. That’s how little they care.

All of this has as much to do with liberalism as Obama has to do with Andrew Jackson. There’s nothing liberal about the honor killing and the hijab, but there’s also nothing liberal about trying to turn America into a totalitarian state. Maher, who has been known to identify as a libertarian, doesn’t seem to have grasped that the liberals who defend Islam do so because they share its totalitarian mindset.

(This is a subject that has been discussed at far great length by Jamie Glazov in his book United in Hate.)

Lenin wasn’t fighting so that the peasants would have land, bread and peace. Today’s liberals aren’t fighting for equality of income, gender, race or any other kind. They are fighting to suppress any and all opposition to their policies by disrupting and destroying the existing American system at every level.

That’s exactly what Islam is doing.

Leftists don’t value equality, they value disruption. If they can disrupt by promoting equality, they will do it. If they can disrupt by promoting inequality, they will do that. If they can disrupt by promoting gay marriage, promoting Islamists, promoting the environment, promoting unregulated industry, promoting freedom of speech or promoting hate speech laws, they will do those things in order of opportunism.

Their underlying goal is to replace existing ideas and systems with their own. Anything that serves that purpose is good. Anything that maintains the existing order is bad.

The very concept of universal standards that Maher is appealing to is foreign to the modern liberal. He doesn’t believe that there is a universal standard. He views the world as tribally as a Taliban. He can’t see behaviors as good or evil in isolation, but only in relation to ideological cues. He derives his heroes and villains from the tribal affinities of the left, not from the things that they actually do.

That’s why he wears a Che t-shirt while calling Rush Limbaugh unpatriotic for opposing Obama. Or why he thinks that liberal billionaires underwriting political campaigns is a good thing, but conservative billionaires doing it is bad for democracy. He has no concept of standards. He only understands power.

This isn’t liberalism. It’s a leftist Jihad that has displaced and hijacked liberalism. The modern liberal has nothing to do with liberalism and it’s useless to expect him to be upset by Islamic illiberalism.

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  • steelraptor from Saturn

    Excellent article. Yes it’s simply opportunism by the Left, Islam serves its agenda, having a common ideological stance, and common enemies.

    Important to stress that the Left shares Islam’s hatred of America and the Jews (i.e. Israel), hence the alliance. I don’t want to go on here about the roots of the Left’s Jew-hatred, it’s written about by scholars and historians, although little understood by conservatives and non-Leftists and shockingly many Jews, but that’s a whole other thing.

    The Left also shares Islam’s love of powerful Big Brother Government knows best, and will tell you what to do, for your own good, a love of abusive authority in other words.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      The Red/Green alliance is surprising due to their vast differences about women, gays, education, religion, religions place in society and government.

      But all those differences are set aside to unite over their common enemy – the US and its allies.

      • Joel Cairo

        That alliance will end as soon as one is powerful enough to throw the other under the proverbial bus, or otherwise eliminate them. If the jihadists do it the average leftist guy on the street will be totally surprised that his supposed ally is nothing of the sort.

    • laura r

      unfortunatly most jews are liberal leftists including reformed rabbi’s. go figure.

      • Attila_the_hun

        they are Jew just because they were born from a Jewish womb.
        Other than that they have no connection to Judaism whatsoever.

    • Dallas25305

      When Jimmy Carter help put insane Ayatollah Khomeini in power in Iran. That started the Islamic Fascist revolution that we are facing today. In the beginning many Iranian Liberals and socialist aided Khomeini. Once he had attained absolute power they where the first ones he had executed. However we can not expect the brainless and cowardly clowns of the Liberal Socialist left like the fool Affleck to be smart enough to know that.

  • roger

    It seems that most of those in the mainstream left have chosen their stance on issues, not because of any profound feelings of moral urgency, but because there is a hatred and a despising inside them for any sign of rightness or basic wholeness.

    I just read an article by a typical leftist (James Conrad ) raving against Pro Life, large families and Christianity. It really puts into perspective, their anger and bitterness.

    Here is the address.

    http://latest.com/2014/09/duggar-family-portrait-crass-illogical-dangerous-zealotry/

  • camp7

    It kind of boils down to conceit. Ben Affleck views himself as an important person. So his opinion, in his mind, is correct because he feels strongly about it. Facts are irreverent because he’s so important that he needs to be recognized as an authority by his virtue, above the common civics using grassroots analysis and common sense to form a conclusion. The illiberalism of liberals, how quaint.

    • truebearing

      I especially liked his idiotic assertion that criticism of Islam is “racist.” Affleck doesn’t realize that A) Islam is a religion, not a race; B) that criticism of ideas is not racism; C) That making faces and shouting are not effective debate techniques.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Making faces and shouting are good in the Actor’s Studio, not for debates.

        I’ve written off ben affleck and will boycott any project he’s involved in.

        BA, is looking at ticket sales to 1.4 billion Muslims.

        BA’s inflated ego will eventually suffer a fail.

        When it comes to Islamofascism, Bill Maher is GREAT.

  • logdon

    Have Hollywood actors now become the arbiters of Islam?

    • Gee

      Western politicians have, and all kinds of Hollyweird actors have portrayed politicians they must be.

    • laura r

      if they receive $$, they put thier $$ where their mouth is.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      1.4 billion potential ticket sales can’t be ignored.

      • logdon

        I can’t see those Iraqi/Syrian jihadis going to see a Hollywood bit of fluff.

        It has more to do with the lefty warped cred.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Pandering to 1.4 billion potential Muslim movie goers is a marketing move.

          • logdon

            You miss the point.

  • Paul Austin Murphy

    One thing I noticed about Sam Harris’s reply (on his website) is how apologetic it is – despite the defenses. I’m not saying they it shouldn’t have been reasoned and analytic; just not defensive.

    When Leftists and Islamists like Reza Aslan, Glenn Greenwald and Nathan Lean are supplying Ben Affleck with the ammunition, there’s no need to be apologetic to extremists like that. It’s they who are the “bigots”. And I suspect that some of these Leftists are inverted or “positive” racists in that they continuously project their own racial obsessions onto other people (much like Puritans and the Victorian moralists projected their sexual obsessions onto others).

    As ever, zealous and fanatical anti-racism is doing more than almost anything else to contribute to racism. I know that that many people are becoming racists because they are sick and tired of the extreme bullshit that’s coming from the anti-racists. Of course the zealots of anti-racism will simply say that such people were racist all along. After all, only the Nathan Leans of this world are truly pure and untainted.

    • laura r

      looked @glenngreenwalds site. its just a rehash of the sameold sameold predictable yabber. some of the comments about islam were excellent. im surprised he published them. hes a propaganda scam artist never the less.

  • The March Hare

    As the socialists/communists joined the Democrat party they were mistakenly called liberals and they didn’t dispute that misnomer. They let it slide and used that false image to cover up their true selves as they later, in the 70s, took over the Democrat party completely. They had also infiltrated Hollywood and the media to control the message and propaganda so necessary to their maintaining and growing their power.
    It was back in the first part of the last century they were open about who they were, then were publicly scorned causing them to operate in secret, then back to being out in the open while wearing masks hiding just who they really were, and now becoming more and more open while confusing the image of who they are and re-educating the younger generation. Guess what the next step is.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      “Progressive” sets off less alarms than Socialist/Commie.

      It’s rebranding to advance the cause.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        “progressive” is Socialist Taqiyya.

    • Lochlinnie

      The really rabid communists call themselves “Greens” !

  • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

    The word liberal is an honorable word going back to the Roman Republic. A liberal arts education provides a free man with the capacity to think independently. He needs to cultivate the process of rationally weighing and judging in order to know how to act as a free individual. It’s core focus is on process (the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and through process to content.

    The movement for liberty in the Anglosphere, starting with Locke, defending freedom of the individual including freedom of thought and religion. It was called liberalism in the 19th century and outside the USA the word is still use in this libertarian sense. We allowed leftists to hijack this word. It is too honorable a word to apply to illiberal leftists who clearly have fewer and fewer remnants of respect for those who don’t toe the party line.

    I never use the word liberal for leftists. “Leftist” is adequate. Maher is pointing out the hypocrisy of those using the word liberal. Good! Let’s push that further. A liberal economy is a free market. Anyone who read J.S.Mill knows that. A liberal college is one that allows the free and open debate with professors giving diverse opinions for the student to consider. It is not indoctrination. It is not this phony “critical thinking” which subjects traditional thought to deconstruction in order to establish the new dogma.

    We are the liberals. It’s our word. Let’s take it back.

    • truebearing

      The Left destroys anything it infects, whether concepts or countries. They twisted the meaning of “liberal” just like they did “progressive.”

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        The Left has already destroyed the UK.

        May the US always be ready to defend itself. Things should start to get better this election cycle. I hope the Republicans take control of the Senate too. Obama and his flying monkeys will blame the Republicans for his failures – as if everything he did before this November was a success.

    • Lochlinnie

      Liberals are the conservative members of the political spectrum in Australia and there are some very fine thinkers in the Libertarian movement here, in the Institute of Public Affairs (www.ipa.org.au) whom you may enjoy reading.

      Richard Allsop, writing for the IPA, has written a booklet entitled “Liberalism: A Short History” – as part of a series on the “Foundations of Western Civilisation”, all of which are excellent. (http://westerncivilisation.ipa.org.au/). Do hope you enjoy them.

      • http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

        Looking over the reading list on that website and I see a slew of good articles to read. I’ve quickly sampled a few and look forward to reading them in full. I don’t see the Allsop booklet but I’ll look for it. Much thanks.

        • Lochlinnie

          Jason, sorry about the dud lead, strange it is not listed on the site – think the webmaster has his own filing system!. It is in the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program – Monographs on Western Civilisation No 4. (Numbers 1-3) are similarly not listed, so I think you will have to contact them to ask for a copy. Each of them was a little gem so I do hope they can ship you a copy.

  • Hard Little Machine

    Well considering they’re trying to give 30 million illegals the vote it stands to reason they want the Muslim Brotherhood to vote D in the US as well.

  • notme123

    what upsets me the most was that so many of those interviewed(dems, reps and others) on Fox and other stations supported Affleck

  • http://johnnyangeladvocacygroup.net JohnnyAngel Advocacy Group

    Greenfield is ALWAYS ON TARGET and should be on the MSM networks REGULARLY !! He talks REALITY and I dare Fox to hire him !!

    • lyndaaquarius

      Greenfield’s voice can change America for the better! Give him a chance!

    • laura r

      DG would be good for fox.

    • Debbie G

      I have the feeling Mr. Greenfield is happy where’s he’s at!

  • Softly Bob

    “That doesn’t mean that the left cares about Muslims. It would toss them
    under the bus before they could shout “Allah Akhbar” if it suited the
    consensus.”

    I think Leftists will be in for a shock. It will be Islam that tosses them under a bus and not the other way round.
    If Muslims ever gain any real power, the Left will be the first victims of jihad. The Left are playing with what they believe to be cuddly tigers. They think that they can tame the Beast with political correctness and ‘Liberal logic’. That’s because the Left don’t understand religion and its power. They seriously believe that Muslims terrorists are just frustrated angels, angry at the West for perceived injustices. Once these injustices are reasoned with, so the Left reckon, they can destroy the superstition of religion and cure the Muslims of their beliefs.

    The Left are just stupid children sticking their fingers between the bars of the cage thinking that they can stroke the cuddly tiger, befriend it and use its power against their enemies. They will actually be the first to be mauled to death!

    • laura r

      bravo. the left will enjoy when the tiger eats them, they will apologize. dont forget you are dealing w/masocists.

    • Lochlinnie

      What is amusing about “liberals” is that they travel the world without ever seeing the real people underneath, not seeing the hostility they engender, not realising the muslim is saying to himself “kiss the hand you hate and pray for it to be cut” . The islamic practice of “Taqivya” (lying about ones aims) works both ways

      • Softly Bob

        That’s because to them the World is a Global village full of quaint exotic foreigners.
        To the deluded Liberal, the average Muslim is a magic-carpet flying Aladdin who is ‘such a nice chap’ and could never hurt anybody -unless of course the evil Capitalist West is oppressing him and has come to steal his oil-fields in which case his anger is justified.
        The same with India and its exotic spices and the thousands of dumb hippies who go there every year thinking that they’re going to meditate all day and discover the secrets of Shangri-La.

        I’ve traveled extensively around the Globe, and yes, many places have some areas of outstanding beauty and you’ll also meet some great people there, but on the whole these places are sewers. They’re sewers not because of us, but because of their own people, their customs and their ill-discipline.
        As for that shit-hole continent known as Africa….. don’t even get me started!

        • Lochlinnie

          That about sums it up Bob….the wonders of multi-culti…..it’s all about the food.

          And mostly it’s sewers so

  • UniteAgainstIslamism

    I am glad someone like Afflek exist. It reminds us of the stupidity of some people who think they can appease Islamism and continue to have their head on their shoulders. Everything the left stand for is utterly at odds with Islamism, the only thing they share is a totalitarianist view.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      His buddy matt damon is also a socialist moron.

  • lyndaaquarius

    “their underlying goal is to replace existing ideas and systems with their own.” That’s the absolute,rock bottom rationale for all the chaos and death for so ,so long.Examine everything in that light and we’ll always know the truth. Thank you Daniel Greenfield!!!

  • fnulnu40

    Best concise article I have read in a while

  • Gee

    Just as the Islam State has nothing to do with Islam – liberalism has nothing to do with liberals.

  • mtnhikerdude

    My guess is all the media / humanitarians who were beheaded were Liberal leaning.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      I’ve thought the same too.

  • kasandra

    Bravo! Excellent column. I’m not even sure that many leftists even recognize this in themselves but they’re so motivated by the need to be seen as part of the left, where all members are viewed by fellow leftists – including the popular culture – as better and smarter than, well, anyone else that they mouth the words and walk the walk. Hence, they become the “useful idiots” of which Lenin spoke.

  • Oracle9

    A good reminder for anyone who has not yet read Glazov’s excellent treatise “United in Hate – the Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror”. This subject deals with the single most dangerous phenomenon our world faces, since it has Western civilization divided and paralyzed at all levels.

    • laura r

      reccommended- excellent read.

    • iluvisrael

      another is ‘Unholy Alliance’ by David Horowitz.

      • Oracle9

        Both are excellent writers on the phenomenon of brain deactivation.

  • edlancey

    I remember reading Zinn’s A People’s History to see what all the fuss was about and was astonished by what sheer and utter drivel it was: nothing more than a carefully selected bunch of faits divers used to promote his America-hating thesis.

  • semus

    You hit it out of the park.

  • Attila_the_hun

    Basically Ben Affleck’s argument – if you call it an argument – comes down to
    enemy of my enemy is my friend. As long Islam is determined to wipe out Israel,
    America and the free world. American collectivist left will side with barbaric Islamist.
    is that simple.

    • Oracle9

      Correct. Going deeper, it’s the Marxist and Alinskyist hatred of our freedoms which is the root of the problem.

      Hatred takes root in the primitive part of the brain – the amygdala – and is immune to rational thought, which originates in the outer cortex.

      That’s why brainwashing is such a difficult condition to cure.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Some actors think that the US is awful and move to Frawnce.

      gyneth paltrow is one example.

      Screw her. She should become box office poison.

  • valerie

    Liberals try too hard. They are naive and have no realistic grasp of politics. Let them eat dirt. I knew it would come to the point where they would end up denying ISIS as a religious threat in their sick and distorted way like they defend child molesters and criminals. What a bunch of useless douche bags.

  • laura r

    well written & almost 100% correct. bill has critized obama, he did several years ago. i think he will come around & wake up. his speech after 9/11 was brilliant. (he was fired soon after that). understand, bill wants to be liked as evan sayet stated. he has playing into to leftest agenda for a long time. my feeling is he will see the total picture later. ben affleck is not worth even talking about, hes just an actor & has zero knowlege of islam.

  • http://www.apollospeaks.com/ ApolloSpeaks

    THE FAILURE OF MOSLEM OUTREACH AND COLLAPSE OF THE ANTI-ISLAMOPHOBE LEFT

    Affleck’s childish emotional outburst at Maher and Harris is a sign the anti-Islamophobe left is collapsing along with Obama’s failed Moslem Outreach Initiative.

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for the article.

  • nimbii

    This will be interesting when fashion is interrupted by designer berkas in Park Avenue and Rodeo Drive rag shops.

  • Zoric Shlagbaum

    Unfortunately, we live in times, when the words – not only liberalism – have opposite meaning. Look
    Left-right: on a political scale, where on a left end is anarchy (no government) and ona right end is dictatorship (all government), the commies, nazis, muslim and “democrats” and “liberals” all are on right side
    Progressive-regressive: activists, who want us back in caves with no daily shower, air conditioner, electricity and cars called “progressive”
    Earth-savers: people, who dried out California Central Valley and the rest of the state, who kill birds with solar panels and bats with wind turbins are called “environmentalists”
    Public Agencies: government entities, which distribute between private contractors money, coerced from the tax paying public should be called “anti-public” agencies
    Democrat Party of USA: running tonight a fundriser at $32,000 a plate in Bevrly Hills, creating also a traffic nightmare for working Los Angeles Westside residents, are called a “party for working people”

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Al Gores carbon footprint – from his private jet and mansion.

  • Sniper Tracks

    Excellent analogy. Much like Dr. Anthony Napoleon work “The Progressive Virus” Well done again sir.

  • nimbii

    So, how long will illiberalism last when we see designer berkas in Park Avenue and Rodeo Drive rag shops?

  • wileyvet

    It seems whenever an actor or other Liberal’s career is in the toilet they find the need to reinvent themselves to garner the publicity they so crave. So now Ben Affleck, after a string of box office failures, becomes an Islam expert in order to keep his name alive in Leftist Hollywood circles. Not only are his views on Islam dead wrong but he clearly betrays what a fool he is to boot.
    As Daniel Greenfield points out, no Liberal or Lefty has even bothered to examine Islam or read the Koran. After a century or more of denigrating Judaism and Christianity, and attacking its moral and ethical structure to implement their diabolical social order, they have no desire whatsoever to say the slightest thing about Islam. A doctrine that is firmly rooted in the belief of religious supremacy and the divine rule of Sharia Law apparently is of no concern to them. However a crucifix, or Nativity Scene or the Ten Commandments at a court house sends them in to screaming fits and apoplectic rage over the attempt at a Christian theocracy taking over America.
    For those who have not done so, as Daniel points to, read Jamie Glazov’s ” United in Hate”. Brilliant and frightening.

  • cree

    What I saw in Affleck’s demeanor was sympathy for Muslims. “How can you denigrate the Islam people?”

    Still, many leftists think how bad America must really be if they flew 4 airplanes as attack weapons; that confirms how bad America is. If America is so hated, there’s good reason and its the conservatives fault; “I will be a progressive.” You know: The passive, appeasement, I’m your friend, please be my friend naiveté .

    Likely, most leftcoms don’t know much if anything about Sharia law. Maher’s intellect has helped him figure out Islam doesn’t fit the civilized world. Now, all he needs to figure out is what David Horowitz figured out: the left doesn’t either.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      How can we tell when Affleck is acting and when he’s being real?

  • truebearing

    The Left will possess movements, political parties, or concepts in their endless lust for power. A great example is their infecting liberalism with dog whistle “irtues” like “diversity.” For years they have championed diversity, using it as leverage for totalitarian power that ironically would eliminate all diversity of opinion or political affiliation. What they call diversity, however, is really division. Their purpose is racial, gender, and class division among the general population, which destroys unity, making the country less able to resist their insurgency. Liberals followed like lemmings.

    The Left claims to love diversity, but not when Europeans immigrated to North America and created racial diversity. Of course, that diversity unintentionally created a diversity of diseases that native Americans had no defenses against, which led to huge numbers of deaths among that population. Diversity wasn’t a good thing for the native population, but rather than admit that disease caused most of the native deaths, the Left blames it on European oppression. Diversity, it seems, is only a good thing when used as a leftist tactic.

    Now we have the onslaught of Third World disease accompanying the legal and illegal immigrants swamping America. The Left’s rapacity for power has ushered in an era of diversity of virulent viruses, carried along by the waves illiterate and unwashed immigrants. As with all Leftist drives for total power, death will follow. It turns out that a political virus enables other deadly forms of viruses, while deactivating a nation’s immune system.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Why weren’t Europeans decimated by diseases native to North America that Native Americans were immune to?

  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    Socialist Totalitarianism – seen before in the 1939 Socialist SHlTler and Socialist Stalin Non-Aggression pact.

    They both later invaded Poland and split between themselves.

    Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact – AKA hitler-Stalin Pact
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

  • georgejochnowitz

    What defines a leftist, more than any other issue is anti-Zionism.
    Andrei S. Markovits, writing in the relatively progressive magazine Dissent, said in the Winter 2005 issue, “A new European (and American) commonality for all lefts—a new litmus test of progressive politics—seems to have developed: anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism (though not anti-Semitism, at least not yet).”

    The words “at least not yet” reflect the year 2005, when they appeared in print. Today, anti-Semitism has become a defining characteristic of the left.
    Marxism and Islam are the two most anti-liberal philosophies on earth today. It is natural that they have united to fight against Israel’s existence.

  • http://oldschooltwentysix.blogspot.com/ oldschooltwentysix

    It would be nice if they changed the masthead here, as this article shows there is NOT a totalitarian within EVERY liberal.

    These liberals described are leftists and progressives, but it’s true they have co-opted liberalism as actual liberals know it.

  • http://islesofmyst.webs.com Raibeart MacIlleathain

    We will use liberals, and other useful idiots, to further the revolution. We will do buiness with capitalists so they can sell us the rope we will hang them with. (Not even Lenin dreamt Americans would first LEND him the money to buy our rope.)

    People who tried to argue with Bolsheviks then, lost. Those people who resisted Bolsheviks with all means necessary–including guns and ammunition–put them to flight.

    They’re so clever (Bolsheviks in the old days were intellectuals) but today, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren “think” they’re intellectuals because their handlers told them they were.

    Which is why the leader of the Idiocracy thinks there are fifty-seven states and medical people in the military are corpse-men. They have no idea just how uninformed they are, and never will.

    Like the pimply faced nitwit in NoKo, (to steal an analogy from Ann Richards); They were born on third-base and believed they’d hit a triple.

    Communists, Bolsheviks, Democrats—they are all children that never grew up.

    Isaiah 3:12 speaks to this: Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. …

    Another way of saying it is Liberals and Feminists rule over America. God says they’re a curse.

  • CurmudgyOne

    “He can’t see behaviors as good or evil in isolation, but only in relation to ideological cues.”

    So completely true. I fear, in some ways, we on the Right are the same way at times. I will watch that in myself!