For someone on the right, the people on the left have a decidedly crazy look about them. Not all, of course, but far too many. Here is an interesting article on The Leftist Mind Explained. The article was inspired by a comment from Glenn Reynolds where he wrote, “I’m beginning to think that most lefty movements are just about broken people trying to manipulate the rest of us so they can feel good about their broken selves.” It stuck with me as well since you really do want to make some kind of sense of behaviours and beliefs that are both clearly wrong and clearly destructive. This is how the article ends:

They all desire, in the kinds of abject Loneliness that fills their Souls like a diseased bile, to drag all of us down into the cesspit of their types of pathological Miseries. They are the armies of The Culture Of Death, the vanguard of Nihilism.

For centuries, the Western World was able to keep such attitudes confined to a small number of the population. With the spread and acceptance of Leftist Thinking in the last two hundred years, however, these various perverse ways of approaching Life have ascended to domination, a Hegemony Of Perversity, if you will. The reasons for this triumph are many, but they all bespeak of a Civilization that is in decline, one that is slowly committing suicide.

Well, maybe. I don’t know what drives them but I do know they terrify me. They are everywhere and if they cannot be stopped they will be the ruin of us.