Jamie Glasov Explains: Why the Left is Just Plain Nuts

Note: I previously posted this article under the heading "The Psychological Pathologies of the Far Left." Then I remembered that most Americans voted for Barack Obama and are too dumb to know what that means. So retitled my article in simpler English that means the same thing and have reposted it here.

I started reading my new book last night. It’s by Jamie Glasov and is entitled “United In Hate,” about the coalition between the far left and militant Islam (see my previous post below on the subject). The book is good at explaining the mind set and the psychology of the far left. That mind set includes:

1. Self-hatred or self-loathing, leading to a desire to efface the self, to submerge the individual into the anonymity of the masses where personal identity and responsibility disappear. In the most extreme case, the leftist desires death, especially dying for the cause, as that goal gives him a tremendous sense of significance and purpose.

2. Estrangement from society as a whole, leading to sympathy for antagonistic or hostile systems that the leftist imagines will fulfill all of his psychological needs. Since he hates his own society he is naturally sympathetic to other systems that share his hate.

3. The desire for a political system where the individual will feel validated and empowered and given a feeling of purpose. The most powerful systems thrill him the most, particularly those that engage in mass killing and oppression. By identifying with these systems he attains a vicarious feeling of power. Glasov notes that both Stalin and Mao enjoyed their greatest praise and pilgrimages from western leftists precisely at the peak of their mass murder and oppression.

4. Guilt for being well off. Self-hating leftists imagine themselves to be victims of a society that has failed to provide them with a feeling of fulfillment or purpose; they naturally identify with other “victims.” However, western leftists live in the most prosperous nations on earth, and it is hard to feel like a victim under those circumstances. So they make unreasonable demands on the power structure so they can picket and march and preach hate of the establishment. They especially like to be arrested as this adds to their desired feeling of victimhood.

Glasov takes several key ideas from Eric Hoffer’s classic “The True Believer.” Just understanding the psychology of self-destructive leftists is worth the price of the book. I will write more about this book as I finish it.

The Ascendant Left: Eventually We Will Lose Our Freedoms

There's a disturbing story afoot this week. Geert Wilders, the Dutch Parliamentarian who produced the film "Fitna" is to be prosecuted in the Netherlands for telling the truth about Islam.

Wilders's film juxtaposed recent images of Muslim violence against the West with passages from the Qur'an that permit (and even require) such attacks. But since the truth was "insulting to Muslims" he will be criminally prosecuted and in all probability be imprisoned for it.

The Netherlands is a particularly cowardly nation that is now in the process of committing national suicide by allowing great numbers of Muslim immigrants to move in. Islam is a violent and intolerant culture and many Dutch have moved out of the Netherlands for their own safety. Euro-weenie philosophy seems to hold that, if a group of people hate your guts and want to kill you or conquer you, then you must let millions of them immigrate into your country. If there is any logic in this, I fail to see it.

Liberalism is anti-logic, anti-justice, anti-freedom. It always seeks to protect the violent against the defenseless, the guilty against the innocent and the despots against the democrats. It is a form of self-hatred whose goal is suicide.

This kind of European insanity is what the Democrats want to bring to our country. Eventually, freedom of speech will be sharply curtailed in the service of "multiculturalism." Funny how hatred, violence and intolerance are all protected and well served by an ideology (liberalism) that pretends to support pluralism and tolerance.

In the spirit of pluralism and tolerance, we will allow an intolerant and hateful culture to take root in the West. In the name of freedom, we will end freedom. These are dark days for mankind.

America In Decline

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Ever notice how the leftwing media loves to portray "America in decline"? I think it's all part of their odd psychology that is largely self-hating and self-destructive.

It will be interesting to see if and how the change this theme now that one of their own is sitting in the President's chair.