Any professional leftist’s main asset is an inability to function outside of the present. For leftists, the here and now is all. If their stomach is empty, they fill it, even if they have to eat their seed corn.
Leftists hate the kind of thinking that focuses on past and future. That hatred extends to all individuals and groups who think outside of the present. That’s why The Roman Catholic Church, intensely involved in saving eternal souls for an endless hereafter, is universally hated by the left. The hatred for long-term thinking and thinkers increases as one moves farther and farther toward the left side of the bell curve. One reaches their lower intellectual levels when meeting those who describe long-term thinkers with ever more hateful, guttural profanity.
Why are they the way they are? Leftists, like utterly spoiled children, throw fits when denied immediate gratification. Education in leftist paradises focuses on immediate satisfaction of every kind of desire. In schools under their control, children are no longer allowed to hear the old fairy tales that compare hard-working ants who live through hard times to fiddle-playing grasshoppers who starve when winter comes. Saving is a notion to be shunned. Chastity is despised. Self-control mocked. To leftists, the here and now is all. The devil works at the moment.
The idea that those who are unable to function outside of the present simply aren’t smart enough to do so must be considered. It may be that they simply lack the intellectual ability to understand reasons for postponing any gratification they desire.
An important question: Were leftists born with low IQs? Not usually. They choose to paralyze their intelligence, rather than use it. Why? Thinking, analysis, and logic get in the way of immediate gratification. Many on the left turn themselves into virtual morons, lobotomizing themselves because they hate the pain of rational analysis that delays gratification.
Some leftists demand such instant gratification that they turn to crime. Criminal activities are always the result of unchecked desires to have or do something immediately. Just as most crimes against individuals are committed by such people, most crimes against society are committed by those in the leftmost political parties. It is a shame that the political party of every criminal does not accompany the TV and newspaper coverage of their crimes.
When it comes to gratifying sexual desires, rape is their answer. When it comes to wanting something, theft is the solution. Dislike of another is solved by assault, battery, and murder.
Pity the spoiled children of every age. And, love them. Understand that each day, they renew their choice not to be smarter, far-sighted, prudent, considerate, happy, kind, and loving. They have chosen to prefer anger, bitterness, and rage. It is too easy, and too shallow, to describe them at the level to which they’ve reduced themselves, as simply “dumb”. We must be a little like Pollyanna, and see that they are on the left because no one loved them as much as they wanted to be loved.
For leftists, the here and now is all. Our love may let them see that they have souls that will live forever, hopefully in a place where they will no longer be touched by rage.
“…..Saving is a notion to be shunned. Chastity is despised. Self-control mocked. To leftists, the here and now is all. The devil works at the moment…….”
The doctrine of “I want, what I want, when I want it.” is extremely lucrative for us in the Capitalist business of selling these adherents exactly what they want and precisely when they want it to fulfil their ‘needs’ for instant gratification. Are we aiding and abetting the devil when we do this? Surely the Roman Catholic Church is not anti-business?
“…….We must be a little like Pollyanna, and see that they are on the left because no one loved them as much as they wanted to be loved…..”
Please to explain how your Pollyanna simile would lead one to consider denizens of the left as such.
I should direct you, however, to the following quote from Pollyanna: “When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.” Replace the word “mankind” with “leftists”. This is a more valid use of a Pollyanna simile wouldn’t you think?
No. We are called upon to love our neighbors and “do good to them that hurt you”. Your last paragraph is clever, but wrong. We see, from Russia to Cuba to Greece that leftist governments do far more harm than good. We already know that the bad is there. Once we know that, loving them becomes more meaningful. If we replace the neutral “mankind” with “leftists” that we know do great harm, we change the meaning of the passage beyond its once-accurate intent. That was, however, a nice try!
Well?
Can we Capitalist pigs remain as one with the divinity while concurrently selling these horrid leftists crap they think they need, or what?
Depends on what we’re selling. Doubt that we claim to be on God’s side by selling birth control devices, pornography, or anything whiose nature and purpose encourages sin.
Well, does not everything one might sell encourage sin?
Selling labour-saving devices encourages Sloth.
Selling cosmetics encourages Pride.
Selling Celebrity magazines and certain television shows encourages Envy.
Selling incendiary newspaper articles encourages Wrath.
Selling food encourages Gluttony.
Selling stocks, bonds and non-productive investment vehicles encourages Avarice.
Selling anything in the US of A encourages Lust.
Have I missed a deadly sin?
Nope. You’ve gotten them all. Too bad you’re wrong. You’ve allowed your attitude to influence your mind, thoughts, and words. Instead, say, “God, please let me see that labor saving devices leave us more time to pray and help others; cosmetics help people feel better about themselves, let me avoid envy but still provide incentives to do well, and let me see through issue-distorted news to find the truth. Let me take advantage of the wonderful food at the lowest prices in history without gorging, and let my activities benefit my neighbors. Let me love my neighbor and avoid sin.”
“……Nope. You’ve gotten them all. Too bad you’re wrong……”
I am neither right nor wrong. I am hyperbolic – a rhetorical device for the amusement of those with a high level of reading comprehension.
“…….Let me take advantage of the wonderful food at the lowest prices in history…..”
Your Americentric bias is much evident here. The rest of the world would not agree with this statement. Granted, more people than ever before are being fed, but the percentage of their income they must devote to food is ever increasing. Even in the US of A, food staples have substantially increased in price in the last 18 months. Check the Commodities Markets – there be huge avaricial profits to be made in Commodity Futures these days.
Also, your data on Russia, Cuba and Greece is rather dated. I’ve been to all three and you have been a victim of your own Government’s propaganda. Officially Cuba is highly Socialist – Communist even – but in practice, Capitalisism reigns supreme at street level. And Russia? Ha! “CCCP” now stands for Capitalist Capitalist Capitalist Pig. Russia and China will ‘out-capitalist’ the Yankee soon enough.
You are dead on about Greece though, they are real losers. I reckon they should invite the Turks back in to clean up the mess and bring order back to the “Home of Western Thought”.
Costs of American food, from Mother Jones, which is probably closer to your thinking than mine, are accurately reported as being pretty low: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/01/america-food-spending-less
It’s a couple of years old, but still very close. Our food is cheaper than ever. Should be, with one farmer replacing close to a hundred a century ago.
ANd, PLEASE check out http://www.therealcuba.com/ for the REAL view of what’s happening in Cuba. It will be hard for you to relate this sad, sad reality to all the leftist hype and the potemkin villages you were allowed to see in Cuba. The unbelievable brutality that the Castro Brothers, who are the richest men in the world, have inflicted on the Cuban people is awful. Russia is not too much better, but puts on a better front.
“…….ANd, PLEASE check out http://www.therealcuba.com/ for the REAL view of what’s happening in Cuba…….”
If you want the REAL view, just ask me. I live there for two months every year.