The Left is a Cult

For John, BLUF:  Of course he is a Brit, so to speak.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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From Front Page Magazine we have this short testimony from Mr Michael Faraday,♠ "THE MIND OF THE LEFT FROM AN INSIDER".  The sub-headline is:

What I witnessed inside a faith of lies &mdash and what it took to leave.

Here is how the article starts:

First of all, forget the ‘60s. This situation has been brewing for over 100 years.  I was born into a working-class socialist family in New Zealand in 1960.  Democratic socialism had been established by popular reforms in the 1930s.  By the late ‘50s, almost every working-class child in New Zealand was raised socialist.

But we didn't call it socialism.  We called it "workers' rights.”  In my family, my older siblings and I were the third generation of socialists.  We never chose socialism, we inherited it.  In the late ‘60s, the younger middle-class joined us.

It is especially in the British Commonwealth that millions have been raised by leftists, who were raised by leftists, who were raised by leftists, and so on.  Some leftist families have been so for more than a century.  They consider themselves leftist royalty.

For the millions raised as leftists, it is not an ideology; it is a culture.  Since childhood, they have lived and breathed it every day in the home.  They know nothing else.  Like any culture, it is a way of speaking, thinking and acting, with its own narratives and rituals.  Narratives are held sacred, repeated, reinforced and, over time, added to.  That which challenges sacred narratives, even reality itself, is met with confusion and hostility.  As with any aggressive, intolerant culture, if you enter it, it enters you.

And here is the final paragraph:

Despite all this, it is hard to totally leave leftist thinking because it surrounds you.  It has become mainstream.  It’s like trying to bail a boat with holes in the bottom.  It takes a persistent intellectual effort to leave it behind.  But there is another reason why it takes time to dig out the leftist brain parasite.  A powerful lie lives there.  It is the most powerful lie they have.  It is that the Left “cares.”  You must fully embrace the fact that this is a lie.  All leftist “caring” has a hidden agenda.

It is those Conservatives, those Libertarians, those Independents who are outside the hive and able to think various alternative ideas.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Not that Michael Faraday.