Most of the young Lefties grew up without religion but the Boomer ones, many of them did but abandoned their faiths for all the usual hippie reasons. But I have always found it funny (well maybe not funny anymore) how they treated their new Lefty beliefs exactly like the religion they walked away from. Sacred texts (novels and Marxist texts), deference to a priesthood (academics and famous activists), sites of pilgrimage (Stonewall Inn, the FDR monument in D.C., etc.) And they're completely unconscious of it.
Yes, when I was on the Disaffected Podcast (there's an article on my Substack with more about that if you want to view it), I talked about Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian's Woke Religion A Taxonomy chart which places the left "woke" culture into a religion like you're mentioning. https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy
There's a place for "Victims", "Persecutors" (called guilty devils on the chart), and "Saviors" (referring to The Elect) on the chart.
The emotional needs that are not being met lead them to want to play "Savior" as I mentioned in the article. Those emotional needs are likely that God-shaped hole inside. They turn to the "Savior" or Messianic role as Tucker and Matt called it, to try to fill that hole. This is I think part of what Tucker and Matt were hinting at when they said there was "something darker going on. "
Yes, they will be very angry and that anger is covering their insecurities and terror. It's about their IDENTITY. If you suggest their identity is not what they think it is, you are suggesting the person they think they are doesn't actually exist. It's the same thing with people claiming to be "transgender."
They think if you are correct than their IDENTITY as they know it doesn't exist which would throw them into an identity crisis. It's like DEATH to them. It would mean dying to the self they think they are and having to be reborn as some new identity.
It is an EXISTENTIAL threat to them which is why it terrifies them so.
“This is in response to the US citizens Obama killed without giving them due process. “
I asked a family member about this very thing. The response was that it was okay to kill a US citizens if it was in the country’s best interest. He is just a run of the mill Democrat. Trump and those that support him are being called existential threats by Democrats. What the Democrats are willing to do with additional power beyond not giving those they disagree with a voice
It is amazing that run-of-the-mill Democrats are okay with citizens being killed or targeted for harassment without due process. I wrote about that cruel, vindictive grin Biden gave when he was asked what his response was to Trump feeling like a political prisoner and blaming Biden for that. They just don't care or actively enjoy having this sort of "power" over their "enemies." https://www.thedramaofitall.com/p/biden-and-democrats-schadenfreude
They despise us. Their greatest wish is to see all Republicans die horrible deaths while the Democrats point and jeer. They consider us subhuman pig fuckers. They will never stop driving us into oblivion.
Now they have a majority, are motivated and angry, and see an opening to go for the kill. This election will be a Democrat landslide and it will be a long time before another party that can challenge their rule will be allowed to form.
I think you mean your family is argumentative and divisive over the topic of Trump. He wasn't actually there in the room with them causing arguments, correct?
This is a long article to arrive at a simple fact. Power is addictive, particularly when you delude yourself with the idea that you can “change the world”. At that point, nothing is more Important than keeping power.
Chasing power because you feel powerless is addictive. I wrote about how it's clear Biden feels internally powerless (which is why he's chasing external power and not wanting to give it up). https://www.thedramaofitall.com/p/feeling-powerless-vs-powerful
If you felt internally powerful, taking personal responsibility for your life (so you are not playing Drama Triangle games), you would not be addicted to getting power. You'd be stable and whole.
Biden and many other people like him have a lack of internal power because they live their lives through the Drama Triangle lens. Not taking personal responsibility and telling others that they have to be responsible for you, makes you feel powerless. So, those people constantly chase after power over others which never fills that hole inside of them. So, that's why it's addictive.
I sort of wrote about that experience in my article on narcissism, "Because they go about trying to fill their needs the wrong way, the needs never get filled, hence the preoccupational focus. If you were always hungry, and food wasn’t satisfying you, you would tend to focus intently on trying to satiate the hunger by eating more. Their needs are never met because they’re trying to fill them the wrong way, with narcissistic supply."
In this case they're trying to feel the need for power over their lives (which is an internal thing), with an external force over others.
The Democrats, since Obama (maybe earlier) have been controlled by Communists (ideologically).
Some of them deny even being Socialists. Some advertise themselves as Socialists ("Democratic" Socialists, whatever that means).
Deep down, like most "Socialists" before them, they are really Communists (or turn into Communists once they get a taste of their power), but they know that Communism won't sell so they advertise as something else.
Most of the young Lefties grew up without religion but the Boomer ones, many of them did but abandoned their faiths for all the usual hippie reasons. But I have always found it funny (well maybe not funny anymore) how they treated their new Lefty beliefs exactly like the religion they walked away from. Sacred texts (novels and Marxist texts), deference to a priesthood (academics and famous activists), sites of pilgrimage (Stonewall Inn, the FDR monument in D.C., etc.) And they're completely unconscious of it.
Yes, when I was on the Disaffected Podcast (there's an article on my Substack with more about that if you want to view it), I talked about Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian's Woke Religion A Taxonomy chart which places the left "woke" culture into a religion like you're mentioning. https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy
There's a place for "Victims", "Persecutors" (called guilty devils on the chart), and "Saviors" (referring to The Elect) on the chart.
The emotional needs that are not being met lead them to want to play "Savior" as I mentioned in the article. Those emotional needs are likely that God-shaped hole inside. They turn to the "Savior" or Messianic role as Tucker and Matt called it, to try to fill that hole. This is I think part of what Tucker and Matt were hinting at when they said there was "something darker going on. "
The best part is when you try to point this out to them they get really angry. They really like their delusion of rebellion
Yes, they will be very angry and that anger is covering their insecurities and terror. It's about their IDENTITY. If you suggest their identity is not what they think it is, you are suggesting the person they think they are doesn't actually exist. It's the same thing with people claiming to be "transgender."
They think if you are correct than their IDENTITY as they know it doesn't exist which would throw them into an identity crisis. It's like DEATH to them. It would mean dying to the self they think they are and having to be reborn as some new identity.
It is an EXISTENTIAL threat to them which is why it terrifies them so.
«The only citizens in the Republic are the republicans… the royalists, the conspirators are only strangers or enemies.» – Robespierre, February 1794 (source: https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/robespierre-revolutionary-terror-1794/)
Not much new under the sun. (And we know how it ended that time.)
Interesting quote and so applicable. Thanks for sharing. Yes, this dehumanizing and "othering" people as enemies is nothing new.
“This is in response to the US citizens Obama killed without giving them due process. “
I asked a family member about this very thing. The response was that it was okay to kill a US citizens if it was in the country’s best interest. He is just a run of the mill Democrat. Trump and those that support him are being called existential threats by Democrats. What the Democrats are willing to do with additional power beyond not giving those they disagree with a voice
It is amazing that run-of-the-mill Democrats are okay with citizens being killed or targeted for harassment without due process. I wrote about that cruel, vindictive grin Biden gave when he was asked what his response was to Trump feeling like a political prisoner and blaming Biden for that. They just don't care or actively enjoy having this sort of "power" over their "enemies." https://www.thedramaofitall.com/p/biden-and-democrats-schadenfreude
I think your last sentence got cut off.
What the Democrats are willing to do with additional power is beyond not giving those they disagree with a voice.
Forgot the “is”. Thanks!
They despise us. Their greatest wish is to see all Republicans die horrible deaths while the Democrats point and jeer. They consider us subhuman pig fuckers. They will never stop driving us into oblivion.
Now they have a majority, are motivated and angry, and see an opening to go for the kill. This election will be a Democrat landslide and it will be a long time before another party that can challenge their rule will be allowed to form.
Only one person has caused arguments and divided my family and that person is Donald Trump.
I think you mean your family is argumentative and divisive over the topic of Trump. He wasn't actually there in the room with them causing arguments, correct?
This is a long article to arrive at a simple fact. Power is addictive, particularly when you delude yourself with the idea that you can “change the world”. At that point, nothing is more Important than keeping power.
Chasing power because you feel powerless is addictive. I wrote about how it's clear Biden feels internally powerless (which is why he's chasing external power and not wanting to give it up). https://www.thedramaofitall.com/p/feeling-powerless-vs-powerful
If you felt internally powerful, taking personal responsibility for your life (so you are not playing Drama Triangle games), you would not be addicted to getting power. You'd be stable and whole.
Biden and many other people like him have a lack of internal power because they live their lives through the Drama Triangle lens. Not taking personal responsibility and telling others that they have to be responsible for you, makes you feel powerless. So, those people constantly chase after power over others which never fills that hole inside of them. So, that's why it's addictive.
I sort of wrote about that experience in my article on narcissism, "Because they go about trying to fill their needs the wrong way, the needs never get filled, hence the preoccupational focus. If you were always hungry, and food wasn’t satisfying you, you would tend to focus intently on trying to satiate the hunger by eating more. Their needs are never met because they’re trying to fill them the wrong way, with narcissistic supply."
In this case they're trying to feel the need for power over their lives (which is an internal thing), with an external force over others.
That is how Communist rulers rule.
The Democrats, since Obama (maybe earlier) have been controlled by Communists (ideologically).
Some of them deny even being Socialists. Some advertise themselves as Socialists ("Democratic" Socialists, whatever that means).
Deep down, like most "Socialists" before them, they are really Communists (or turn into Communists once they get a taste of their power), but they know that Communism won't sell so they advertise as something else.