I may have some personal experience with a full blow leftist.
My older brother is unfortunately one of them. He is unhappy in his marriage, his health and his job and blames society for all of that. His dream society would be one were he can stay and read all day, not have to work, his wife doing everything. For some reason he thinks that communism and woke ideology would solve every one of his problem.
He somehow believes that under communism he does not have to work, despite the fact that under communism everyone worked. He also believes that he must be "on the gender spectrum" so he does not have to work towards a masculine ideal and be an actual husband and an actual father.
What he hates is people proving him wrong, people who work hard, workout, strive to be good husbands and fathers and are happy about it. So he likes any ideology that would hurt the average guy.
What he hates is people proving him wrong, people who work hard, workout, strive to be good husbands and fathers and are happy about it. So he likes any ideology that would hurt the average guy.
There's a real terror there:
The realization that it's all your fault.
You hate everyone who you think did this to you, but that leaves you to be the center of all that hate. If you don't know how to fix it either; you can't help but become shattered psychologically by the fact that all the pain is all your fault and you don't know how to make it stop.
I think that a lot of people would rather die than face that truth. It's too horrible for them to contemplate. It would cause them real physical pain to have to face that. The self-delusions are safer, even if it makes you miserable forever. It's nothing compared to facing your history of failure all at once.
I can say; "hey, we are all Americans here. So we get to share this failure together, even if non of us are directly responsible for it. We hold the receipt."
I may have some personal experience with a full blow leftist.
He somehow believes that under communism he does not have to work, despite the fact that under communism everyone worked. He also believes that he must be "on the gender spectrum" so he does not have to work towards a masculine ideal and be an actual husband and an actual father.
What he hates is people proving him wrong, people who work hard, workout, strive to be good husbands and fathers and are happy about it. So he likes any ideology that would hurt the average guy.
There's a real terror there:
The realization that it's all your fault.
You hate everyone who you think did this to you, but that leaves you to be the center of all that hate. If you don't know how to fix it either; you can't help but become shattered psychologically by the fact that all the pain is all your fault and you don't know how to make it stop.
I think that a lot of people would rather die than face that truth. It's too horrible for them to contemplate. It would cause them real physical pain to have to face that. The self-delusions are safer, even if it makes you miserable forever. It's nothing compared to facing your history of failure all at once.
I can say; "hey, we are all Americans here. So we get to share this failure together, even if non of us are directly responsible for it. We hold the receipt."