The left eating itself: does the left lack common sense?
Much of leftist criticism is their emotional overhaul and lack of logic. They are too busy fighting with their feelings. The right is all about logic and rationality. While I think the right does the same ploy of emotional or traditional fighting, it is more interesting to look for common sense on the left. Common sense denotes simplicity and correctness. If the right is saying it then the left can’t or can it?
I was recently listening to a newer social media conservative commentator responding to liberal outrage. She played a clip of Bill Mahr’s red pilled realisation. She argued that the right is the common sense side. Just recall, Shapiro’s facts don’t care about your feelings. This coincides with an older video panelling if the left is eating itself with Brendan O’Neill and Brett Weinstein recognising its faults. Weinstein in the affirmative and O’Neill in the negative. In the past I was closer to Weinstein but believe O’Neill has much to say. The SJW triggered videos on YouTube are not or do not represent left. Much of liberal outrage and trying to be lefties is cute and disastrous. Just look at the way the liberal establishment treats Bernie.
Firstly, it is important to dismiss the emotionally charged illogical argumentation. It does not mean that these generally protesters are factually wrong but their rhetorical ability is minute. The inability to coherently argue fails the common sene quota. Kvetching is not a solution. It is these people who create the caricature of the left. This is the ammunition the right uses to topple leftist policies. The left is just background nose trying to make a name for itself. They mumble crumbs of nonsense shouting animal noises ignored inaudibly. It is an echo without any verbal indicator. Unable to converse nor order feelings prevents proper channeling.
This is not left, it is childish tantrums. There is a real concern for the issues but its implementation or presentation is a toddler who wants a toy but mom says no. Pouting and stubbornly shouldering sympathetic synergy. They uphold the ethical motivation and reparative consultation but without proper pursuit. Unlike a mature response which is to detail the issues and a path forward. They do little to advance the conversation, They want their toy now and will shout and shout until it is given. They will cry to authority and blame the boogyman for their emotional oppression. Their care for the toy is real. It is not baked in lunacy. There is a strong attachment and belief in correctness but it is not publicly displayed well.
Left is capitalised thinking. A measure of scepticism to the current frame. Left has been the protestor to the contemporary model. While the right attempted to conserve the current frame, lefties wish to change it. Southern democrats and Neo-cons do not reflect the left. The left was the most marginalised group in the US. McCarthyism tried to sniff out all Soviet sympathisers and routing out any positive marxist trope. The 70s sexual revolution and psychedelic music began the liberation from domineering meta-narratives. Hippies gained attraction but less seriousness. More teased for their colourful appearance and monkish chill charm. It was a nuanced attempt to circumvent their optimistic utopianism. Their socialist lacing was voided with ignorance.
University students follow the socialist bandwagon to be cool and trendy. Enjoying the collectivist tribal defence of marginalised people. Group victimisation to fight authority. Teenagers finding a new method to rebel against the big bad brother. Sticking it to parents with a tongue stuck out because this is a worthy cause not some stupid boyfriend they objected to. It is ironically an important endeavour challenging decades of brainwashing. Revolting against the big bad wolf. It is a team dream synchronising the emotional appeal. Hearing stories sheds tears crying on their shoulder. A girlfriend’s trauma is hijacked for ammunition. Marching to a rally decrying the experience. Walling off predators lurking in the shadows. Creating magical forcefields to keep the danger outside the safe space.
To be left is to be readily cryptically cynical. It is not a measure of progressivism but more a delegation of adverse thinking. Left is not liberal. Liberal is the manifested attempted middle ground. Testing the waters of both camps. A more progressive stream of right wing politics. A milder version respecting the latter’s metric but unhappy with its magnitude. Left is an entirely different metric. It provides an entirely different paradigm. The former is Aristotelian vs Newtonian physics, the latter is Newton vs Einstein. Same atmosphere different solution. The same problem can be approached from different angles. Yet even in the left there are discrepancies on the level of governance or none at all.
It is not a one time thing, nor does is fit into a simple solution. Branding lefties into a single column is wrong. Details matter. While they may support socialism there may be more grifting to democracy or anarchy. The sheer dismissal of lefty diversity is the opposite of common sense. It is common sense that nuances especially politically would wreak division in the long run. Simple logic is replaced with emotional primacy. The embarrassing takes on consecrative podcasts may be rejected as dismantling rookies but where are those fluent in lefty wisdom? Are they sacred of Ben Shapiro or are they too arrogantly biased by their own image to discuss openly? The reluctance to debate mindfully gravitates from arguing to lone insulting. Where are the beacons of light to stop the cyclical boobytraps?
Hijacking the left has been accepted. People fawning over leftist ideas with little knowledge of any actual lefty propaganda. They do whatever keeps them in the group and makes them feel good. The left is flummoxed with choking hazards. They are breathing up all the space to unearth proper leftist discussion. Disorientating the discussion with trendy teasing. This so called leftist derided demonstration openly charades the accountable leftist policies. Hidden behind the screamers are the sceptical asserters. The marxist demonstrators are overshadowed by the wilfully dyed blue hair promising hash tags and hysterical tropes.
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