Where Have All the Leftists Gone?

Because what we have now definitely isn't left... it's insane.

I’ve never really considered myself part of the “left wing” politically.  There was a short time in my life when I did consider myself sort of “right wing”.  For the most part, I’ve always embraced a philosophy of “live and let live” and not *any* “side” politically.  I want/wanted people to be able to make their own decisions about their lives.  I want/wanted people to be able to make mistakes and screw up their lives and fix themselves when they realized what they’d done.  I want/wanted people to choose their path and have an amazing time on that path as long as I wasn’t forced to walk down the same path with them.  In other words, as long as what they are/were doing with their lives didn’t hurt me or anyone else, I could care less.  I wish/wished them the best of luck.

When we are young and overly emotional about pretty much everything, it’s really easy to get drawn into “saving the world” from everything we *imagine* is destroying it.  There was a time in my early adolescent years that I was sure we were all going to freeze to death so I bought into much of the hype “recommending” that you and I (the general public) should change whatever we had to in our lives to “save the planet!”  And then there was a time in my early 20’s when I was sure that every one of us was going to burn up with a fervent heat because of global warming. 

And then I woke up. 

I started seeing some of the “left wing” issues for what they were:  Mind games.  These games are designed to keep the public divided, scared and focused on everything but the real issues.  These games are played in the name of “equality”, “civil rights”, “saving the planet”, and numerous other touchy-feely monikers to tug on people’s heart strings and get them to start begging for a “solution” from filthy politicians, giant corporations and bigger and bigger government. (In other words, begging the same institutions that caused the problems for a solution!) 

I’ve been shocked over the last few years, as insanity from what used to be considered the left has turned into something really weird!  There was a time when people on the left wanted government out of their lives, their bedrooms, their food, their medicine, and definitely didn’t want the “war machine” marching all over the world telling others how to live (and killing anyone who didn’t agree with said war machine).  Oh yes, the left did like government when it came to most social issues, but for individual choices it was mostly *hands off*.  Female (am I allowed to call them that?) college students used to rip off (and burn) their bras in the name of women’s rights, young people would march on capitals nationwide begging to stop wars, campaigned to stop poisonous food from being peddled upon the public, and many other (what seemed to be) common sense issues were always at the forefront of their ideology.  Whether I agreed with all of it or not, I almost always respected their conviction because at the heart of most of it they really *seemed* to want to be left alone in their lives by “the man.”

Oh, how times have changed!

Where is the left now?  They seem to just love war (as long as the media tells them which war to support) regardless of how many people’s lives it destroys or how many people get killed in the process.  They want government to tell us who can be married and who we are allowed to marry (a permission slip from “the man”).  They no longer care about poisonous foods because their billionaire hero Bill Gates has a plan to process fake meat and bugs for everyone.  They no longer care about children in the traditional sense, but instead think that it’s a good idea to chop off little boys and girls genitalia in the name of “stunning and brave” (never mind the long-term damage that *will* be done to countless innocent lives).  They no longer believe that the government should stay away from our bodies and instead believe government should be able to literally FORCE people to wear medical devices and take risky experimental medicines for the “common good.”  They’ve taken “saving the earth” to a frothing insane level where everything that has made the world free and good has to be immediately stopped… but not for *people’s* best interests, but in the best interests of multi-billion-dollar industries, government, and “the earth” itself.   They don’t want to reform the police (which they used to want), but want to completely de-fund local police to instead form a giant tyrannical federal police force (how any thinking person could want a jack-booted federal thug enforcing law instead of a local peace officer is beyond me).  They no longer embrace critical thinking about society’s ills, coming up with long term solutions, but instead the solutions they embrace are short term expensive “fixes” that don’t involve the general public, but exclusively involve billionaires and politicians *enforcing* a ”fix” for every little problem. 

The list goes on.  And on.  And on. 

The general public who considered themselves part of “the left” used to be tolerable.  Some of their ideas were a bit wacky to some of us but, by the same token, some of their ideas made a lot of sense.  In fact, I’d wager that if “the real left” and “the right” in America could come together on many of the issues plaguing our planet we could come up with some absolutely amazing long-term solutions to pretty much anything.  

But we can’t have that.  Someone would lose a lucrative committee seat or a perk.  The media wouldn’t have the assumed power they have.  Government wouldn’t be as relevant (even though it still *isn’t* relevant to those of us who choose to live our lives as we please and refuse government insanity).  The news wouldn’t be as exciting, would it?  After all, wouldn’t we all rather watch a “mostly peaceful” protest with buildings burning and people being killed than watch a story about a community that came together to purchase some farmland and begin growing their own food? 

I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I think I’ll wrap it up this way:  If this new (but not so new), insane, radical, communist, Marxist, truly fascist so-called “left” doesn’t start waking up and realizing what they are advocating, we will *never* have solutions to any of the problems they imagine the world has right now.  The “fixes” being presented to the public will do nothing to insure a future for us or our progeny.  In fact, we will *all* (including those who are shoving all of this madness down our throats) end up in the exact same prison.  And it will be a prison we will *never* get out of in our lifetime.  

How do we reach these people?  Is there anything we can do besides walk away from them and seek out like-minded individuals who don’t want the hellscape being created for us all?  Will some of these young people who have bought into this madness ever snap out of it?  Do you have a memory of what the *real* “left” used to stand for?  Do you have young people in your family who have bought into all of the madness over the last few years?  What have you done to try and reach them and help them see the truth?  I’d love to hear answers to any of these questions in the comment section.

“If you want total security, go to prison.  There, you’re fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on.  The only thing lacking is freedom.”  Dwight D Eisenhower