A friend in another forum recently declared his inability to understand liberal thinking. He declared, “I cannot wrap my mind around the progressive mindset.” He then cited a list of liberal behaviors that seemed to him inexplicable:
Stores are robbed, blame the shopkeeper.
Cars are robbed, blame the carmaker for not having a theft-free car.
Have repeat offenders, waive bail, and shorten prison times.
Voter fraud is on the increase, eliminate dating and signing ballots, allow illegals to vote.
4-6 graders failing national tests on math? Lower test standards.
More people being killed by criminals with guns? Take guns from law-abiding citizens.
Illegal alien crime on the rise? Keep the borders wide open.
America financially bankrupt? Spend even more money we don’t have.
And on, and on, and on...
On, and on, and on, indeed…
My response:
Actually, it gets a lot easier to understand progressives - liberals - once you blow away all the smoke get down to the root of it. What we are witnessing is not a genteel contest of opinions where good men and women might honestly differ. As harsh a judgment as some might consider it to be, I believe liberals are simply evil - enemies of all that is good - and what is really at issue here, as I have argued elsewhere, is the people’s ability to judge and choose between right and wrong, good and evil.
Simply stated, there is no sound intellectual, moral or spiritual argument that can be brought to bear in support or justification of progressivism or any aspect of it. Abortion - the slaughter of the unborn? Climate change? Homosexuality? Transgenderism? The mutilation of children in the name of sexual identity? Open borders? Gun control? Fiscal libertinism? The welfare state? The effete wokism of a limp-wristed military? The deliberate sabotage of civil society? Pick a number, any number and try to bring an intelligent argument in favor.
Looking for such an argument is an utter waste of time, except perhaps as a means to prove the point that there is none. In my friend’s list above - or my list in the above paragraph (one could easily create a much longer list of liberal idiocies and illogic) try to find some positive sense to any of it, some supporting rational reasoning - something that doesn’t insult common intelligence, anything at all that works to the good of humanity.
These people, who have rejected every traditional intellectual, moral and spiritual standard long established in the civilized world to measure and guide human values and behavior - most particularly the Judeo/Christian standard and set of values America - indeed the whole western world - has long been based upon - view the world through a darkened, corrupt, lens.
Albeit, with humanity in general, high up on the scale of animal intelligence, liberals are nevertheless unregenerate, vicious, animalistic creatures. However camouflaged they may be in the outward trappings of civilization (the demonic, genocidal Nazis were spiffy in their fancy uniforms and impressive in the grand rallies), liberals behave like animals, slaves to their natural, unregenerate animal instincts.
Individually and collectively, they are perfect examples of what scripture calls "the natural man":
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
- KJV Bible, 1 Corinthians 2:14
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Mosiah 3:19
For them - the spiritually unregenerate - there are no limits… All things become possible, including this:
and this:
However ultimately destructive and suicidal, this is not to say there is no rhyme or purpose to the irrational, evil reasoning of the left, however oblivious they may be to it. Unbeknownst to them, they are in the grip of a satanic logic with a diabolical evil objective - an end its leftist victims utterly fail to understand until it is “everlastingly too late”:
“Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself.”
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:27
“For behold, at that day shall he [Satan] rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: ‘All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well!’ —and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.
“And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance.
“Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment.”
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 28:2-23
Set aside the vacuous, intellectually insulting, emotive liberal breast-beating -
“The world is burning up! No more fossil fuels! Guns kill people! Criminals are the real victims, not those they kill and injure. These invaders are not ‘illegals’, they’re just ‘undocumented’. So what if they break our laws? - they’re just looking for a better life! Speech is violence! Abortion isn’t murder! It’s healthcare! It’s a woman’s control over her own body! That’s not a baby! It’s just a bunch of cells!”
- and simply apply rigorous, systematic reasoning to any of this liberal mindset and behavior - or any policy of liberal government - and it will always come down to something very basic and simple - right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, truth vs. lies, reality vs. corrupt, self-serving liberal fantasy, a good result vs. a bad result - and, critically, your ability, or lack of it, to tell the difference.
Thinking otherwise - looking for some kind of sound, positive, constructive dynamic in liberal thinking and behavior, as some struggle to do - is to look for a corrupt tree to bear good fruit. It will invariably prove a waste of time, a distraction, a misdirection, a delay in coming to terms with the hard truth.
Some might think my argument here is an oversimplification. Is life ever really that simple, that black and white? But, as I frequently have argued in the past, in terms of the great sweep of history that will determine our future, I believe it does indeed boil down to just that - good vs. evil.
Indeed, this is not rocket science. I believe anyone possessed of a few firing synapses and even a rudimentary sense of right and wrong, good and evil can understand it.
Consequent to it being an evil corruption of the human mind and soul, the deadly, bedrock truth about liberalism is that it is suicidal. The debauched liberal mind and everything that flows from it leads invariably down into the abyss. As history so richly attests, liberalism - in other words any order of things driven by "the natural man" - whether it is embraced by an individual or an entire society - can only come to one end - misery and death (see the fate of the Nephite nation mentioned in my recent Substack post “THE DEMOCRATS’ 4-PHASE (5-PHASE) PLAN AT THE BORDER”).
It has always been and will ever be so. As many before us have done, we can deny reality - the way things really are and really work - deceive ourselves with delusions and self-serving fantasies, rail in the face of the decrees of history - but it will do us no good. The juggernaut of truth will grind to powder our self-serving, indulgent, deceitful, fantastical dreamscapes.
You can't fool Mother Nature:
"Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness."
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Alma 41:10
“But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.”
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon, Helaman 13:38
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, patriotism vs. treason, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, happiness vs. misery, God vs. the Godless…
The real test - you get to take your pick. One way or another, you’ll choose…
If you can be fooled, you will be…
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada