This is a brilliant essay by Daniel Greenfield. It completely meshes with Jon Jay ray's monogram on The Motivations of Political Leftists.
There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate,
who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life
stewing with vindictive resentments.
Leftists call it “privilege” now. They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things.
They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the
future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its
backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for
its mercantilism. But privilege is simply freedom from resentment.
To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness.
The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies
in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been
unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk
the earth.
Like most utopians, they plan for a utopia that they could never actually live in.
Leftists without grievances are like an army without guns. That is why
leftist experiments in communes dissolved into denunciations, power
grabs and authoritarian rules as soon the drugs ran out. Often even
before. The leftist isn’t seeking freedom from capitalism, religion,
nationalism, racism, sexism, office dress codes, bar codes and any of
the other great evils of the moment. These are just the outrage fuel of
the willfully outraged whose resentment has become both culture and
religion.
What he wants is to express an egotistical grievance at a world that is
not built around him. His resentments came before his ideology. They are
in a very real sense his ideology. The idealistic leftist is a passing
phenomenon. He is useful for getting the actual work done while everyone
else shouts. Unless he is very dim, he eventually realizes that and
heads off to volunteer in Africa. The core is the aggrieved leftist
whose grievances merge with his storytelling skills into the compelling
narrative of a narcissist.
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