Dictator Class Cruiser

Leftism has always been about the acquisition and consolidation of power. Which is precisely why you see a complete lack of principles, intellectual honesty, or consistency among Leftist advocates. Those things are only a means to an end and if the end requires jettisoning them, so be it. The ability to hold mutually contradictory positions on a variety of issues enables them to assemble a larger coalition to obtain political power. This is why you see the far-Left embrace both Islam and Transgenderism at the same time. It’s how they can claim that everything is violence except for actual violence, which is simply an act of “decolonization” to be publicly celebrated. It’s also why they can endorse the Nazi ideology of “blood and soil” when it comes to claims of “stolen” or “occupied” land, while simultaneously arguing for open borders and declaring that “no immigrant is illegal.” The ability to hold mutually contradictory positions on a variety of issues enables them to assemble a larger coalition to obtain political power.

There’s really only two paths you can go down, though neither is a suitable reason to continue to engage in dialogue with these people. The first is a warning. After the assassination of Jose Calvo Sotelo in July 1936, the head of Spain’s largest Right-wing party in parliament got up and read one Leftist newspaper after another celebrating the murder and demanding that more on the Right be killed in a similar manner. He then warned “A day will come when the violence you have leashed will be turned against you.” For some of these people, that’s all you can really tell them. But for others, the appropriate response is one of mocking their own martyrs and saints for the explicit purpose of desecrating their Progressive religion. This is what the Right did with George Floyd, with the transgender movement in general, and increasingly with illegals, Palestine, and Third Worldist causes that the Left has more recently latched on to. None of this brings back debate or discourse between the two camps of course. If anything, it confirms that discourse between the Left and Right is all but dead. But the “death of discourse” that Dave has been talking about for years now doesn’t have to end in the Right just handing Leftists a perpetual advantage in the culture wars. It just means we need to stop pretending we’re engaged in a friendly debate with these people any longer. The struggle has now moved on to something else which has not yet been fully defined. We’re in some sort of bizarre twilight that exists between consensus and collapse.