Topic: Some 'light' reading concerning the lunacy of the left

[BMG]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/anatomy_of_an_occupation.html

Before Obama came on the scene, I could have been interviewed, mumbling and bumbling, just like those other frothing-at-the-mouth leftists.

I would also have parroted the Third-World loving party line.  I too would have angrily  and self-righteously proclaimed that the US was the root of all evil in the world.

To me, capitalism was bad, communism good (which I discovered after watching the handsome Warren Beatty in the sweeping thriller, Reds).  I envied Cuba, home of the finest health care system in the world (thank you, Michael Moore).  And I, like our current occupiers, ranted and raved about the racist, patriarchal, capitalist system with its millionaire fat cats (which I learned from reading books by those millionaire fat cats, Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, Gloria Steinem and the late Howard Zinn.)

I believed all of this despite the now glaring inconsistencies in my argument. For one, I (like most leftists) had mutual funds that invested in the horrible corporations.  While I was never flush with money, I wouldn't have minded being so.  And just like those demonic capitalists, I got a kick out of procuring a big-ticket item, such as a car with that wonderful new car smell.

So how did I fall so deeply into the progressive chimera?  Given that I am (I hope) an intelligent person, with the potential to see the light, why did I drink the Kool-Aid for so long?  In the service of shedding some light on our current occupiers, I offer the following observations:

I found this to be an interesting read, even if I already knew most of it.

[Pandora]

She's right, too, about the current Occupato in the WH.

[Damn_Lucky]

There might be hope some of these (?) people yet.

[John Florida]

There might be hope some of these (?) people yet.

 I'll believe it when I see it with a little more consistency.

[BigAlSouth]

Control:  Occupying the streets allows participants to feel good about themselves, noble, as though they are saving the world.  In contrast, it's a buzz kill to realize how little control one has over this life.  To feel insignificant, like a little cog in the wheel, is depressing.  How much more exciting to elevate oneself into the role of some revolutionary involved in a movement to radically transform America.

I have stated this before: This is why most Leftists are Godless. They seek to feel as if their lives have meaning by living a secular life. Control of their fellow man gives them a sense of security that religious folks find elsewhere.

[Libertas]

Yeah, but how many people presented with forced servitude as a drone in the Leftist colony will be just tickled pink to go along being a drone?

It is a recipe that can only end in misery and blood.

[benb61]

Greed:  Despite the leftists' lofty claims about fairness, isn't socialism all about greed, about coveting thy neighbor's house?  Can't the essence of progressive politics be distilled to this: wanting money, money, and more money?

While those on the left profess to be anti-capitalists, they are the real capitalists.  They are so preoccupied with capital, and envious of those who have it, that they want it through any means necessarily.   Even billionaire Warren Buffet must be less obsessed with cash and the things it can buy than these love-of-money leftists.

And they (leftists) say that the conservatives are the greedy ones.  How can we remove the blinders that these people have firmly attached to their eyes?  They need to see just what the truth really is, not what they have been told the truth is.