Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality.

The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, sexist, and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or primitive cultures, the leftist makes excuses

The leftist wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems. He is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.

Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak, defeated, repellent, etc. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings

The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of IQ tests

Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. they use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics

compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not calculated to be of benefit to the people whom they claim to be helping

If our society had no social problems at all, the leftists would have to INVENT problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.

Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid guilt, they continually deceive themselves about their motives and find moral explanations for feelings that in reality have a non-moral origin

Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle.

This thread is (obviously) some choice cuts from your uncle Ted