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Whatever the issue of the day, it isn’t really the issue. The issue is power. The left thinks that once they have the power, they will make everything good.
Muslims who want to advance sharia are pretty much the same. There have been states implementing sharia (and failing) for over a thousand years. But history doesn’t matter. sharia will work once they get the power to do it the right way.
As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, conservatives (people of the constrained vision) think that the problem is that people are prone to corruption and foolishness. Leftists (people with the romantic or unconstrained vision) think that the people in charge are the problem. Even as Robespierre was being dragged to Madame la Guillotine, he didn’t understand how things had gotten here. He was part of the inevitable march of history. How could this have happened if the ‘good’ people were in power? From what I can tell, it’s the same mentality with Islamists.
Currently in New York, Islamists and hard leftists are uniting against moderate leftists and Hindus. Which totally makes sense if the greatest principle is about acquiring power. It is similar to Iran’s red-green alliance. (Red at that time referred to left, while green referred to Islam.) In Iran, the Islamists managed to kick out the reds. In New York, the reds will tolerate the greens for the foreseeable future.
But what about the average New York lefty who identifies as a non-binary, masculine-appearing queer person? (That’s leftese for an effeminate straight guy.) Why would he vote for a guy who allies himself with sharia? Because he thinks that Islam is a lovely brown person thing. The only really evil people are the whites who live in fly-over country and vote for Trump. All his friends say the same and he doesn’t want to read statistics about how vast majorities of Muslim populations feel about homosexuals and freedom of religion.
He votes for the guy who makes him feel good. There is no real need to think further than that.*
*Dr. Bastiat is a man of high I.Q. who seriously thinks about things. I don’t think he fully understands how much people feel rather than think.
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I think you mean Robespierre, not Rousseau.
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Also, wouldn't "non-binary masculine-appearing queer person" be a gay guy, not a straight one?
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Thanks. This was kind of a stream of consciousness post so go hogwild on the grammar and corrections. Particularly if it could get to the main page.
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"A Conflict of Visions" is Sowell's best book and really hasn't been surpassed for the difference between conservatives and leftists.
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Queer is now so devoid of meaning that it could mean that he a dude was good-looking one time. I suspect that a huge number of the new LGBTQ+ folks are straights who need to feel like something other than straight.
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