Why are lefties lefties?
For years I wondered why anyone with an education would be a progressive, a single-issue activist, a socialist or a communist.
Then it hit me: Life’s easier if you’re a leftie.
In the leftie camp, you find that decisions are all made for you. You’re with people who feel exactly the same way about everything important. You don’t have to think or know anything. All your answers are provided free.
Best of all, you get to feel angelic and precious. You are one with the downtrodden, and the marginalized. You want to be fair. You want to do things for the children. You want to save the planet. You want to preserve resources for future generations. Not only do you achieve none of these, you make things worse. People who point this out are evil and you get to excoriate them at will. You win all arguments by sneering. You are saintly, they are satanic. You love yourself.
You get to pretend to be brave. Speaking truth to power. Standing up to the man. Your ego grows and glows whenever you pat yourself on the head.
You get to claim that your views are based on reason and science, yet all of your assertions are logically flawed, usually by ad hominem, straw man and/or appeal to authority.
You have one permanent Get-out-of-Jail-Free card that absolves you of anything, no matter how many lies and distortions you spew, no matter how disastrous the results of the programs you support, no matter how murderous and venal the people you back. Your card reads: “My intentions were pure.”
Being a leftie is like being a kid forever. You put on your dish towel cape and run around the back yard waving your super soaker, being a hero, and calling everyone else a villain, especially the people who make it possible for you to be a fool.



























