musterion
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A good article, but only as description.
http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/12/point-deer-make-horse
But as time goes on, I see more and more otherwise intelligent, informed leftists who DO acknowledge (if only tacitly) things as they are and DO (if only for argument's sake) see where everything is leading, but don't have a problem with it because they make it clear that's what they want to happen. These seem more heavily represented on TOL these days, and there's no doubt that a few don't stick around here for the conversation. They're part of the agenda. Which ones? Watch when and how they post and decide for yourself.
http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/12/point-deer-make-horse
I think he gives them too much benefit of the doubt here. True, there are hapless, mindless leftist drones who live for the State to take care of them and tell them how to live life, who like toddlers cannot stand to be contradicted on even negligible points. We have a few of these here on TOL.One might ask: how many people will the Muslims have to shoot before the Left realizes that the Muslim doctrines telling them God wants them to shoot people is the source of the problem, and not the lack of a government-enforced static global climate system? How long until they wake up?
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How long until the Left wake up? The answer is: NEVER.
The Left will never wake up to reality for precisely the reason that Leftism is a mental system of excuses and psychological tricks and traps meant to allow the Leftist to escape from reality.
That is what all their rigmarole, jabberwocky, lies and evasions, all their complex obfuscations, and penning endless tomes of endless nonsense from Marx to Keynes to Al Gore, all their riots, marches, protests, sit-ins, think-tanks, media moguls, money laundering, awards shows, convulsions, antics, stunts, clamor, libel, slander, and cacophony is for: Reality avoidance.
That is all that it is for.
But as time goes on, I see more and more otherwise intelligent, informed leftists who DO acknowledge (if only tacitly) things as they are and DO (if only for argument's sake) see where everything is leading, but don't have a problem with it because they make it clear that's what they want to happen. These seem more heavily represented on TOL these days, and there's no doubt that a few don't stick around here for the conversation. They're part of the agenda. Which ones? Watch when and how they post and decide for yourself.