Britain’s answer to Bernie Sanders — Jeremy Corbyn — was just elected leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition. The less fanatically insane members of the Labour Party are beginning to regret that their party has descended into lunacy.
I come from a left-wing family, marched against Margaret Thatcher and was one of the first journalists to denounce New Labour’s embrace of corporate capitalism — and I don’t regret any of it. But slowly, too slowly I am ashamed to say, I began to notice that left-wing politics had turned rancid.
‘Tory, Tory, Tory. You’re a Tory.’ The level of hatred directed by the Corbyn left at Labour people who have fought Tories all their lives is as menacing as it is ridiculous. If you are a woman, you face misogyny. Kate Godfrey, the centrist Labour candidate in Stafford, told the Times she had received death threats and pornographic hate mail after challenging her local left. If you are a man, you are condemned in language not heard since the fall of Marxist Leninism. ‘This pathetic small-minded jealousy of the anti-democratic bourgeois shows them up for the reactionary neocons they really are,’ a Guardian commenter told its columnist Rafael Behr after he had criticised Corbyn.
Sounds terribly familiar, does it not?
I am seriously considering that the radical left suffers from a collective insanity. An insanity they are unaware of, because they surround themselves with like-minded individuals and denounce anyone who disagrees like they were a threat to their very existence.
Such narcissism on a group level is horribly dangerous.
Is self aware insanity insane?
Let’s face it, people on the left cannot stand moving past the seventh century, in terms of social structures, they like the feudal system of old. They get their unfairly rich ruling class, a non existent middle class, privilege is actually a thing, and they get to run around burning witches.
The difference between the two sides cannot be put in more complete terms than the difference between “Tunnel in the Sky” and “Lord of the Flies”.
I know what Nick Cohen wrote is English because I can read it,but I need an interpreter to explain to me what is written.
Leftists always think they will be the next commissar but never the anonymous body in the ditch obeying gun laws.
“I am seriously considering that the radical left suffers from a collective insanity. An insanity they are unaware of, because they surround themselves with like-minded individuals and denounce anyone who disagrees like they were a threat to their very existence”
Kind of like the whole “cuckservative” vs “conservative” debate?
The reality is, fringe is fringe on either side. I think most mainstream Americnas would be horrified by the “fanatically insane members” of the GOP here.
mike, it all comes down to a binary, tertiary–if we are being technical, system: those who are for the ideas that built the West, patriarchy et al.; those who are against the West, you; those who do not care, most people.
To the man on the bottom, everybody on top is a twit; to the man on top, all those on the bottom are sub-human. Not caring about it seems a simple, if impractical, solution to those who do not wield any significant power.