David Strom writes for HotAir.com about a disturbing element of leftist politics.
There is an aspect of modern leftism they didn’t seem to have understood though. Far from being merely absurd, experience tells us that it is dangerously violent. Socialist/Communist movements, even if you exclude the National Socialists, which I do not, have killed more human beings than any other in human history. If the bubonic plague was among the worst biological diseases to have hit mankind, socialism is surely the worst ideological disease to have ever existed.
Yet its great power over the mind is its constant reference to “kindness” and “tolerance,” and its insistence that its goal is the creation of a utopian world where everybody not just coexists, but lives in love and harmony.
For some reason, lots of people believe this crap, to the point that half of all younger Democrats consider themselves to be socialists. …
… 42% of all Democrats under 35 consider themselves socialists. “Democratic socialist” is just a term; most of these people are communists.
And, like communists of old, their rhetorical pitch is about kindness, but all their symbolism and much of their activism is violent. The alphabet movement in particular is filled with violent imagery—”trans day of vengeance,” anyone—and the actual violence is everywhere.
The violent imagery is everywhere, and is pushed at the highest government levels. That photo of Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor and candidate for US Senate, was taken as she left the ceremony where Governor Walz signed a bill making Minnesota a “Trans Sanctuary State.”
What’s striking is how the “violence inherent in the system” trope is increasingly true, but that’s because the people who run the system approve of trans violence and even advertise for it. Government sites, and government officials, using violent imagery to let everybody know that opposing the agenda is risky.
