Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts has conjectured that some Catholics are signing up with the Left because they view it as the winning side and they wish to be looking into the eventual Christian internment camps rather than looking out from them as prisoners. There is probably some of that, although I think most Catholic Leftists are simply Leftists first and Catholics fifth or tenth. However, raw power is always attractive to fools and knaves and the Church, the human part of it, since it is made up of humans has never lacked plenty in both categories. That is why it is so important that the Left eventually comes to this Saruman moment:
Yes we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished — and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter of men’s hearts. You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just — as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit, as you desired — even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Hàma’s body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc. So much for the house of Eorl. A lesser son of great sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers. Turn elsewhither. But I fear your voice has lost its charm.’
No truck or truce with the contemporary Left.
The biggest problem is that the Left is so good at co-opting the commands of Christianity. “You must care for the least of these! How dare you cut welfare!” It’s not easy or obvious to see a counter argument to it. (Though of late I’ve come to realize that a worthwhile reply might be: “Render to Ceaser what is Ceaser’s – and the poor belong to God!”)
A lot of the Left’s success has been by co-opting Christian commands. You don’t have to spend long in some of their message boards (or Shea’s blog) to find true believers who passionately believe the only moral politics is the Left’s and anything to the right is devilishly evil (which of course makes trying to talk to them hard since you’re just a demon that’s trying to sway them to wickedness).
Of course that’s the true believers. The “bishops” of the faith (and leftism really is a faith nowadays) often seem to be cynical con men looking to fleece the flock. Ironically they are probably in more danger from their faithful than any of us who oppose them culturally.
“No truck or truce with the contemporary left.”
Sadly, all too many conservatives fail to,understand this.
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Once you recognize that they are cowards, liars and traitors, it all makes sense.
Re: looking out f from internment camps. Liberty or Death! For almost 17 years, a couple thousand Taliban have stymied the greatest power on Earth. Be ungovernable. .
Re: lies: The garbage those people espouse does not possess the iota of truth contained in the common lie.