The left has its true believers and casual NPC followers like any other political faction. The trouble is all the political goals of the left in general, the ones defined by their intelligentsia and leaders, are destructive to Western institutions and values, if not outright evil (who else is waging Murray's "War on the West," anyway?), so I do not buy this claim that some leftists are sane and only want reform, not the complete destruction of the nation and of the West.

The left is neo-Marxist at its core, whether any self-identified "progressives" recognize it or not. And that needs to be defeated or we're toast.