When it comes to left people and right people, blue people and red people, the way they view themselves and each other is vastly different. It’s important to see this distinction because it explains so much.
The right sees themselves as sane and sensible, pragmatic, grounded in history, and only carrying on time-honored traditions that have always worked.
They see the other side, the blue people on the left, as easily misled, duped, and manipulated. They see the Pelosi‘s and the Schumer‘s as puppet masters craftily managing an absurd little theatre of deception
The left on the other hand see themselves as clearly better people: Superior, morally and evolutionarily. More advanced, more forward thinking, more evolved. As such they see the other side, the red people, not only as dullards who can’t see the value of the new progressive ways, but stunted. Inferior, morally and intellectually; wholly inadequate to be making decisions on behalf of themselves or anyone else.
Because of this difference, the left sees themselves as the righteous: the worthy; the rightful heirs to the kingdom. They see themselves as wholly capable of taking control of the future and building the utopia that they envision. As such, they view the other side, the red people, as subjects; people to be directed and told and pushed this way or that. It’s why everything that they do is focused on drawing power to themselves. Not necessarily or only because they are power hungry people, but because their cause is so holy that it’s only natural that they would be the ones to lead; to direct; to shape the future toward that golden Utopia.
What all this misses is a fact that the left will never see because they view their mission almost as a religion—ordained, ethereal, beyond reproach. The one fact that they can’t see is that the utopia they envision is a rainbow which will always be just out of reach.
The perfect society that they so fervently desire has never ever materialized out of the policies that they put forth. Not even close. And there’s a reason for that. It’s called human nature. Their policies demotivate people away from excellence and at the same time they invite imperfect people toward corruption. Examples of this abound: The USSR. East Germany. Cuba. North Korea. Mao’s China. Simmering pits of human misery. Demotivated, corrupt left-leaning people all in search of Utopia.
The closest it has come to working is the Scandinavian countries, and China.
The Scandinavian countries will openly admit that they flirted with outright Socialism and it failed them badly—and they have drifted back most of the way to a capitalistic society.
Today’s China is a tortured mix of capitalistic freedom and communist tyranny. Economically it works kind of. They have their ups and downs depending on how the capitalist part has performed. But the people of China live a rigid, structured and controlled life.
All this brings us back to today and our original thought: when your cause is right, any tactics are justified.
Because the left views their cause as morally and intellectually superior, they have no problem trying to seize power and put themselves in charge of the world. And because that is their holy mission, there are no tactics to achieve it that that are out of bounds. Early morning raids on homes of their “subjects” serve two purposes: first the element of surprise and second political theater. The surprise nets them any amount of information that they otherwise might not have had. And the theater projects the image of power and supremacy that they must lead with in order to gain the control that they so fervently desire.
As we try to make sense of these things that seem so un-American to us, we need to remember how differently the left and the right see themselves; Sane, sensible, grounded in tradition; or morally and intellectually superior. The rightful heirs to the kingdom.
So when we see something that seems surreal—take the raid on Mar-a-Lago for instance—we can barely imagine something like that happening in America. The tactics seem to us bizarre; over the line; way out of bounds. But in the America of their minds, those on the left are the rightful rulers—morally and intellectually superior. So it’s not surreal at all. It’s a necessary stepping stone toward a golden land—knocking-out-of-the-way another of barriers impeding their inexorable march toward that righteous end.
As much as nothing about that makes sense, it does help make sense of some of the crazy things we see happening.
