Defining Leftism

By Rich Kozlovich

On June 9, 2025 J.A. Frascino posted this article at American Thinker, Might you identify as a leftist?, asking a series of questions, which I've paraphrased below. 

Do you prefer to rely on government versus you're own abilities, and are willing to accept any insanity as long as it destroys traditional values and obliterates the history of how and why those values came into being.  Willingly stand with group consensus versus doing any critical thinking that would make you stand out from the group enjoying and needing the comfort of the herd.  Willing to fight for things you can't explain and don't understand, hate capitalism, and the need to perform and compete in order to make a living.  Self righteously claiming equity and equality are synonymous, and since you personally identify with the deviant and marginalized, tolerance of the objectionable is acceptable.  

Any leftist failures need to be forgotten in order to move forward with more leftist failures.  Accuse anyone who tries to reduce movement of being fascists, tyrants, racists, homophobes, xenophobes, and who must be attacked, even violently.

No need to present arguments that defend your positions to any who disagree with you because you're moral superiority makes you feel great, but if forced to defend you're irrational positions you react with anger, all of which is foundational to the moral, philosophical, and intellectual foundations of a Marxist disciple.

The author goes on to say leftists: 

.......possess a fragile infrastructure — a victimization based, emotionally grounded belief system — which they protect from a threatening environment by constructing and projecting a rigid shell of self-righteous moral superiority, virtuousness, and altruism.  Such a façade defines them simply as enlightened, socially oriented, better people who have no need to resort to reason, logic, or reality to defend their vulnerable belief system.  Upon perceiving a threat to the shell, armed only in self-righteousness, their only recourse is to resort to angry, defensive posturing, profanity, histrionics, vengeance, and violence to prevent breaching of the shell and spillage of its contents for all to see.

you shut up, I just hope this is all that they take away”.

It would appear that whenever issues become complex or challenging you get the same result with adults as you get with children. Why?  Being accepted by their peers is extremely important to children, as it is among leftists.

On December 16, 2022 Allan J. Feifer posted this piece on American Thinker, The Rapidly Dissipating Art of Thinking, outlining things that should be obvious to the most casual observer.  Unfortunately that requires rational thought processes, something that's becoming more and more rare, especially in the leftists in the media, and celebrities who  spew out nonsensical, irrational comments and logical fallacies.