Critique Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(03-21-2017, 10:55 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: What does Leftist nostalgia look like?

Sometimes, it looks like 1917. Sometimes, it looks like 1848. Sometimes, it looks like 1789. Rarely does it ever look like 1215, or 1776 or even 1945. What does this say about certain core elements of the Leftist spirit?

The Leftist is a natural born utopian. He or she seeks to perfect Man on Earth. He or she, ultimately, and oddly, has a notion that the will of Nature itself (most especially Human Nature) can be bent by superior intellect. That experiment has been in process now for 10,000 or more years, with no success. Certain things are hard wired into us humans. We cannot escape either Nature or ourselves.

Bringing this to the here and now, Leftists are trying to figure out how to deal with The Crisis. Although some may recognize the inevitability of The Regeneracy, still, their instinct to perfect Man cannot be set aside. They cling to the notions of The Awakening, hoping for a reprise while the Awakening's foot solders are still alive. Demographics are going to win, not the Awakening. The Awakening is now 33 years passed. Its bones are now of The Earth, never more to live.

Instead of clinging to The Awakening, a wise Leftist would seek common ground with Regeneracy-oriented Rightists. Surprising as it may be to the Leftist, there are Rightists who are not the Devil's Spawn, who are of superior intellect, and, who care more about Humanity than any arbitrary or temporally limited political term or definition. There is much common ground to be had. The Regeneracy is all about common ground.

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This particular more or less lefty doesn't believe in utopia.  Those who think they can see an end to progress, who have an ideal in mind that they think is reachable, I generally disagree with.  The classic example is the old style Marxist who predicts the state fading away after the revolution.  Perfection is advertised as one step away.

I see the possibility of progress.  Pick one or two flaws in the culture and fix them.  Don't try to fix everything.

I would like to see better communications across the divide.  It would be nice if we could find a list of things that need fixing then fix them.  It's something worth striving for.

But to a great degree the abstract goals are in conflict.  The red values might center on independence and rejection of governent inefficiently and at great cost solving problems that don't exist.  Progressive in more populated areas see problems every day that exist less in rural areas, and wish to produce strong communities where people support each other in part through government action.

I would think that the first step would be an acknowledgement that the other faction's ideals and values can be felt sincerely.  The dominant instinct seems to be to demonize rather than to compromise.