Psychosis, evil or just bizarro

bizarro world

At AT, J.R. Dunn has written "The American Left Slides into Psychosis"

"Leftists really believed that Obama embodied their moment. Obama held all the cards -- majorities in both houses, a slavish press that viewed him as no less than a godling, an enthusiastic public, even an acquiescent international establishment, overlooking a few holdouts such as Kim and Ahmadinejad. No left-of-center president has had a smoother road before him -- not FDR, not Lyndon Johnson. Yet Obama's efforts amount to utter failure -- not because of opposition from the "party of no," not because of circumstances, not because of sabotage, but because of Obama's "success" itself. He got the bills passed, guaranteed that their execution would be in the hands of extraconstitutional figures beholden only to him, and got them funded by means both legal and illegal. All of it was put into play with a smoothness that only Chicago thuggery combined with socialist chicanery could accomplish. He launched them, and they crashed, and they burned.

They crashed and burned because they cannot work. Not in a universe with natural laws that operate the way they do and with human nature constituted as it is. They have never worked anywhere they have been tried -- not in Europe, not in Asia, not in Africa, nowhere across this wide world. Obama's grand schemes have been attempted previously. The failures were hurriedly stuffed down the memory hole, enabling the left to hope for another shot sometime down the line. (No small number of people in this country -- many of them not doctrinaire leftists by any means -- truly believe that FDR "ended" the Depression.)

But today they have a problem -- several, in point of fact. The first is that the memory hole has in large part been filled in over the past decade and a half by such things as the internet and the New Media. It's no longer a simple matter to shove nationwide failures out of sight. It may not even be possible.

The second is the fact that this time, they bet the house. They put everything down on Obama. Because it had to work. Because the third time was the charm. Because O was the messiah. And now they're sitting in the casino dead broke, without another dime to lay on the table, and through the doorway they can hear the shouts of the people whose money they embezzled.

This is why the left is being overwhelmed by psychosis. Because they are up against the wall with no way out. Under such circumstances, the strong individual bites the bullet and runs for daylight. The weak fall apart. It's been a long, long time since anyone defined leftists as "strong." "

Is the left really suffering from psychosis? Could they just be evil? ... or perhaps leftists they simply live in an alternate reality like 'Bizarro World'?

Comment from "Xenos Oct 11, 12:22 PM"

"Mr. Dunn's piece reminds me of the old Superman Comic plot that involved Bizarro World. Bizarro World was exactly like Earth, except that every aspect of life there was Earth's moral opposite.

Everything good on Earth was repugnant on Bizarro World, and everything repugnant on Earth was normal and acceptable on Bizarro World.

Bizarro Superman was evil, and all of his actions were deliberately harmful.

Bizarro World represented a facile device through which its creators could pursue ideas about the nature of virtue and vice, and good and evil.

I am fairly certain that they did not intend to describe the mental state of the average Leftist. Nonethelesss, I think that they stumbled onto a fundamental explanation of the Left-wing worldview. As a result of what may be a genetic predispositon, true-believing Leftists have several striking characteristics:

1. Their notion of the nature of things is fixed very early.
2. They do not alter their notions based on experience, but force experience to conform to their preconceived notions.
3. These preconceived notions form the interpretational lense that allows them to create a smug, insulated intellectual cocoon.
4. When their cocoon is threatened by the cold, unforgiving hand of experience, Leftists lash out emotionally, as if the threat was to their physical existence.

bizarro code

• Conservatives and Leftists cannot communicate with each other because they are living on two different intellectual worlds.
• Conservatives live on Earth. Leftists live on Bizarro World.
• Conservatives wish to refine WHAT IS. Leftists wish to destroy WHAT IS and replace it with THAT WHICH SHOULD BE.
• Conservatives are concerned with truth. Leftists are unconcerned with truth - truth is a hindrance to their utopian vision.
• Conservatives care about outcomes. Leftists care about intent.
• Conservatives desire equality. Leftists desire fairness.
• Conservatives believe in the sovereignty of the individual. Leftists believe that the individual should be subservient to Great Ideas.

There are many more, but limited space prohibits further exposition. Suffice it to say that I believe Mr. Dunn to be incorrect. The Left is not sliding into psychosis. The Left is simply being its typical Bizarro self."

I think Xenos is on to something...

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