LEFTISM IS REALITY DENIAL

The Left in one of its more open-minded moods.

by Brett Stevens

Very few people make it through the thought required to analyze Leftism to its roots. On the surface, we all know what it is: an outlook of supposed compassion which supports feminism, diversity, social welfare programs, and gay rights.

Underneath the surface, Leftism reveals itself as fundamentally an "ideology," or in other words a notion that human preferences for how the world "should be" are more important than how the world actually functions. This was formalized in The Enlightenment™ as the idea of "seeing the world through human reason" as expressed in the individual.

HOW TO END TERRORISM

German tourist in Paris.

by Brett Stevens

After an attack, our politicians and media like to slam the barn door really hard to show that escaped horse that it was wrong. Many people have made many statements about how to stop terrorism, and almost all of them are unrealistic and wrong.

Terrorism arose from guerrilla warfare and succeeds the same way guerrilla warfare does: by convincing the people making the decisions that there are too many costs of doing business to make it worth continuing to participate.

In the American Revolution, the guerrillas made a king back down after heavy losses; in the Vietnam war, the guerrillas learned a new weapon: the television. If they could get a whole lot of voters, who we all know are useful idiots, to panic and emote over what they see on the teevee screen, then the guerrillas win because the politicians will retreat.