Dennis Prager’s Part VII of his series (his series is based on a new year’s resolution he made to himself to explain Judea-Christian values to people this year—and he’s doing it fatastically well.)
I love the last paragraph, which you’ll get to if you read it!… here’s a bit right from the middle—but read the whole thing (3 minutes) and try to get caught up in the series. It’s intellectually stimulating (liberals: that means it “un-dumbs” you—give it a whirl!)
[…] In the contemporary Western world, most people who identify with the Left—meaning the majority of people—hate war, corporations, pollution, Christian fundamentalists, economic inequality, tobacco and conservatives. But they rarely hate the greatest evils of their day, if by evil we are talking about the deliberate infliction of cruelty—mass murder, rape, torture, genocide and totalitarianism.
That is why communism, a way of life built on cruelty, attracted vast numbers of people on the Left and why, from the 1960s, it was unopposed by most others on the Left. Even most people calling themselves liberal, not leftist, hated anti-communism much more than they hated communism. When President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” liberals were outraged—just as they were when President George W. Bush called the regimes of North Korea, Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq an “axis of evil.”
Ask leftists what they believe humanity must fight against, and they will likely respond global warming or some other ecological disaster (and perhaps American use of armed force as well).
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