The left is no longer the left
The world of the past was divided into two different political sides: the left and right wings.
Left-wing people generally didn’t own much and had to work for a living. Right-wing people had perhaps more resources and usually didn’t need to resort to entry-level jobs or manual labor.
That was the main political divide of the industrial age, and while we still try to apply these same labels to current political thought, they don’t really make that much sense anymore. The “right-wing” people are increasingly more dependent on the entry-level jobs, if they can even find one.
The culture and thinking of the “non-left” people perhaps hasn’t changed that much: their circumstances have shifted greatly, but the underlying ethos is still based around three basic things:
1. Common sense
2. Personal responsibility
3. Improving your lot in life by working hard
Those same ideas weren’t foreign to the left either. If you went back to the heyday of the industrial age, let’s say the 1950s, and talked to any random “leftie”, they would probably agree with you on all of those points.
They would probably even be offended if you just hinted that they didn’t see those as being the foundation of a good life and a healthy society.
That definitely can’t be said of the “left” of today. They will get absolutely triggered if you start talking to them about hard work or personal responsibility.
That shared foundation has been replaced by other values, such as:
- The absolute, non-negotiable top priority is women's rights, although genders don't exist
- More important than women's rights are gay rights
- ...therefore Islam is best, and muslim rights are the top priority
- All cultures are the same, except their own, which is the worst
- Single race - human race! Just say no to the white ones... and the other ones too if they "act white"
- The more unlike the non-existent white culture the other cultures are, the better
- All immigrants are the same, and it's racism to criticize their living permanently on unemployment benefits because they work so hard
- In the class struggle of the working class, saying that people should work for a living is hate speech
- Violence is justified only when it is used to right a wrong: you not having what you think you should have
- Words are violence and theft is "social justice"
- Violence is bad and disagreements should be resolved by debate, except when the other party doesn't agree with you
- Because words are violence, responding to words with violence is justified
I know what some will say – “those are just your purposely twisted version of the real, actually noble goals and values and nobody actually thinks like that!”
But then nobody actually should think like that, and we see the opposite every day.
Not just in the way they think and speak, but in the way they act. I won’t go into details here because if this isn’t obvious to you at this point, I don’t think I can change that.
The “industrial age left” used to be honorable, hard-working people, just with an emphasis on having societal safety nets instead of purely individual responsibility. They were still perfectly rational – what you could call the “common sense left”.
The current “left” has very little in common with the thinking of those people – in fact, if an old and new leftie met, the new leftie would probably dismiss the old one as a “far-right extremist” in under a minute.
Therefore I don’t even like to call these people “the left”.
The division between the left and the right no longer makes any sense.
They are just empty labels on both sides.
There is the “new left”, with their severe challenges with logic, and therefore with reality in general (I have theories on why this is, but that’s a topic for another time).
Then there are everyone else, who just want to get on with their lives without getting bogged down by all kinds of craziness (whatever the “left” has cooked up that day).
These regular people are constantly being labeled as “far-right” whenever they make the mistake of publicly having common sense.
It’s all getting so very tiring. A bunch of crazies have hijacked the brand of the old left, and are using the old (now irrelevant) political divisions as a weapon against normal everyday people.
Don’t let them get away with that – just hold on to your common sense and don’t be scared by the lies they cook up to make you conform to their demands.
If you can’t ignore them, ridicule them! That won’t make them change their mind, but it does something far more important – it allows you to get on with your life!
The world of the past was divided into two different political sides: the left and right wings.
Left-wing people generally didn’t own much and had to work for a living. Right-wing people had perhaps more resources and usually didn’t need to resort to entry-level jobs or manual labor.
That was the main political divide of the industrial age, and while we still try to apply these same labels to current political thought, they don’t really make that much sense anymore. The “right-wing” people are increasingly more dependent on the entry-level jobs, if they can even find one.
The culture and thinking of the “non-left” people perhaps hasn’t changed that much: their circumstances have shifted greatly, but the underlying ethos is still based around three basic things:
1. Common sense
2. Personal responsibility
3. Improving your lot in life by working hard
Those same ideas weren’t foreign to the left either. If you went back to the heyday of the industrial age, let’s say the 1950s, and talked to any random “leftie”, they would probably agree with you on all of those points.
They would probably even be offended if you just hinted that they didn’t see those as being the foundation of a good life and a healthy society.
That definitely can’t be said of the “left” of today. They will get absolutely triggered if you start talking to them about hard work or personal responsibility.
That shared foundation has been replaced by other values, such as:
- The absolute, non-negotiable top priority is women's rights, although genders don't exist
- More important than women's rights are gay rights
- ...therefore Islam is best, and muslim rights are the top priority
- All cultures are the same, except their own, which is the worst
- Single race - human race! Just say no to the white ones... and the other ones too if they "act white"
- The more unlike the non-existent white culture the other cultures are, the better
- All immigrants are the same, and it's racism to criticize their living permanently on unemployment benefits because they work so hard
- In the class struggle of the working class, saying that people should work for a living is hate speech
- Violence is justified only when it is used to right a wrong: you not having what you think you should have
- Words are violence and theft is "social justice"
- Violence is bad and disagreements should be resolved by debate, except when the other party doesn't agree with you
- Because words are violence, responding to words with violence is justified
I know what some will say – “those are just your purposely twisted version of the real, actually noble goals and values and nobody actually thinks like that!”
But then nobody actually should think like that, and we see the opposite every day.
Not just in the way they think and speak, but in the way they act. I won’t go into details here because if this isn’t obvious to you at this point, I don’t think I can change that.
The “industrial age left” used to be honorable, hard-working people, just with an emphasis on having societal safety nets instead of purely individual responsibility. They were still perfectly rational – what you could call the “common sense left”.
The current “left” has very little in common with the thinking of those people – in fact, if an old and new leftie met, the new leftie would probably dismiss the old one as a “far-right extremist” in under a minute.
Therefore I don’t even like to call these people “the left”.
The division between the left and the right no longer makes any sense.
They are just empty labels on both sides.
There is the “new left”, with their severe challenges with logic, and therefore with reality in general (I have theories on why this is, but that’s a topic for another time).
Then there are everyone else, who just want to get on with their lives without getting bogged down by all kinds of craziness (whatever the “left” has cooked up that day).
These regular people are constantly being labeled as “far-right” whenever they make the mistake of publicly having common sense.
It’s all getting so very tiring. A bunch of crazies have hijacked the brand of the old left, and are using the old (now irrelevant) political divisions as a weapon against normal everyday people.
Don’t let them get away with that – just hold on to your common sense and don’t be scared by the lies they cook up to make you conform to their demands.
If you can’t ignore them, ridicule them! That won’t make them change their mind, but it does something far more important – it allows you to get on with your life!