The Left wants to change America. Duh.
I'm not talking about technological changes here. We'd all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don't justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself.
But industrial “progress” is not what the Left means by “progress.”
The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That's the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do. The Democrats crave the power the CCP has in China, Stalin and Lenin had in the USSR, Hitler in Germany, i.e., a citizenry that will do only whatever the government allows it to do. That’s the Left’s vision—worldwide—but that is certainly not the way America was founded. So, it’s not industrial change the Left wants; it’s a complete and total overhaul of traditional American principles and values.
And they vociferously fight the enemies of that vision. They do not want a virtuous, righteous, Judeo-Christian America because virtuous people don't need government, and government is all-in-all to the Left. Virtuous, godly people are the foundation of true freedom. Thus, the Left wants as much promiscuity, licentiousness, wickedness, and lack of human self-control as possible because people like that will need government to control them. “Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” (Edmund Burke)
Recommended
Why would anybody who claims to love children and people oppose fighting crime? For the simple reason that they want chaos, they want mass disturbances, they want licentious, promiscuous, selfish behavior, people with no self-control running loose, they want decent people cowering in their homes, defenseless, without guns to protect themselves. All of that would mean the need for more government, which would mean more power, and that is the essence of Leftism — power. Consider the past 100 years. Leftists worldwide did whatever was necessary—with absolutely no conscience—to achieve and hold power. They murdered, tortured, and oppressed countless hundreds of millions of people so that Lenin, etc. could have the power to create some chimerical "utopia.” Has anyone noticed a utopia being produced anywhere? Yet the Left in Am is doing whatever it can in order to reach the same ends. They are Marxist utopians. They want to establish their heaven in America. But you, your guns, the Founding Fathers, Donald Trump, and MAGA, Christianity all stand in the way. So, they hate you because you are impeding their progress towards the utopia they envision for the country.
A question: What did Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc. do to those people who stood in the way of THEIR utopia?
Do you think American leftists are any different?
The Democratic Party, initially, is trying to turn America into a hedonistic paradise, a country where the “pursuit of happiness” means the “pursuit of carnal pleasure.” Individual Leftist morality can be defined in one word: selfishness. Or, to expand, every man does that which is right in his own eyes, live and let live, eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. That is Leftist morality. And that is the direct opposite of virtue, duty, responsibility, accepting consequences for one's own actions, family, country, and God.
And a selfish people who think only of their individual pleasure will lack self-control, and thus will need government control. That is exactly what the Left wants. It is why the Democratic Party encourages as much licentiousness, promiscuity, crime, and disobedience to Trump as possible. Chaos is a first step to power.
But once they get control, they'll clamp down, just like in communist China. All Chinese are cowed by the CCP and must toe the party line. Anybody who doesn’t “disappears.” It’s interesting how those who helped start these revolutions often end up being eaten by them. True believers in utopia are a threat because, folks, to the Left, to Stalin and Mao, it isn’t ultimately about utopia, it’s about power. If the Left in America ever gets control, eventually their greatest enemies will be those who idealistically supported the “revolution” in the first place. Because they will still have no self-control, they won't want any utopia but their own hedonistic pleasure. And once in power, the Left can no longer allow chaos.
They will silence their rightest enemies, of course. But the next group to go will be those within the revolution itself who don't practice self-restraint and who won't submit to the revolutionary diktats either. They'll have to be shot, too, because they want to live in pleasure. The revolution always needs an enemy, Castro said. Self-pleasure is not what the “utopia” is all about—conformity and obedience are. The utopia is that you do what you're told or you die. And so the revolution always disposes of its rightest enemies first, and then has to clean house, get rid of those who were stupid enough to believe the idealistic, utopian nonsense of the Left in the first place. They never understood what it was about, even though they were repeatedly warned. They aren’t listening.
The rank-and-file have a great surprise in store for them if their party ever gets what they want—a totally different America.
And it won't be the pagan, hedonistic pleasure palace he thinks it will be.
My substacks are a little unique. Not just current events, but history, our Founding Fathers, what America was meant to be, and Biblical exegesis. Check them out. “Mark It Down! (mklewis929.substack.com), and “Mark It Down! Bible Substack” (mklbibless.substack.com) Both free. Follow me on “X”: @thailandmkl. Read my western novels, Whitewater , River Bend, Return to River Bend, and Allie’s Dilemma all available on Amazon.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.
Help us continue to report the truth about the president's border policies and mass deportations. Join Townhall VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member