“A pattern on the left emerges and repeats itself, that manifests as idealism an

—“A pattern on the left emerges and repeats itself, that manifests as idealism and ends in nihilism, that starts with a rent-seeking reproductive strategy.

It’s success depends on cooperating with productive classes, but it tends to get full enough of itself to think it can take the helm, before running aground. It has no realistic positive ethic, and now and again refuses to acknowledge natural law. When the left tries to reconcile it’s failure, all it can muster is intellectual nihilism and sometimes literal suicide.

Leftists in America needed labor unions, the place where it’s idealism accomplished something mutually beneficial. It betrayed those union constituents because it got full of its own global cosmopolitan rhetoric. Like the Russians inciting class guilt to incite hate for the kulaks when the proletariat didn’t bring itself round to revolution. Luckily instead of creating famine, this time it created a Trump presidency.”—Steve Lacasse