The modern Left has very little to do with class injustice and everything to do with individualistic sexual idiosyncrasy and revolutionary identity, usually sexual or ethnic. It is both an outgrowth of and an opponent of the classical liberalism the likes of Jordan Peterson defend. In its active movement it is made up of people with psychological pathologies and slaves to deviant passions. It takes on the liberal idea of individual freedom from oppression and then defines everything normative and traditional as oppressive. It is a movement of misfits who desire not to be healed, but a society that is degenerating and therefore making their deviance seem normative. They talk of “tolerance” and “kindness”, but in their dismantling of all that holds a society together they are full of hatred and express this by active persecution, and destroying their enemies with an inhuman mercilessness.
There is a misunderstanding amongst what we might call “normies” that the misfit is somehow a vulnerable and persecuted victim, who deserves sympathy. In fact, as we so often see, many of these Leftist misfits are full of hate, vengefulness and turn out to be the real bullies. Woke ideology, which assumes an abstract compassion for the theoretical victim, is a useful cover for the bully. It also affirms people in their pathologies, rather than healing them of their resentments, anger, sexual deviance and social alienation. Many Leftist misfits adopt the most inhuman attitudes - hatred of parents, celebrating the deaths of unborn children, wanting the gender complementarity reversed. They have a twisted investment in society being dysfunctional as an excuse or justification for their own social or sexual or familial dysfunction. Society has to be made dysfunctional. It is not really about liberation, but destruction of society, motivated by the alleged feeling they project onto everyone else - hatred.
Edward Dutton writes of the “spiteful mutants”. While one can remain sceptical of his Darwinist analysis, he is onto something in pinpointing the supposed victims often being driven by spite and hatred, We saw this very clearly after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Time and time again we see an abstract and theoretical picture of the victim contradicted by the empirical evidence of the bully masquerading as victim - trans men pretending to be women intimidating their critics and real women in the toilets or in sports and games, ethnic minorities relying on affirmative action and equality laws to reap unmerited rewards, the use of the moral crime of the Holocaust by Zionists to justify genocide of Palestinians.
This is really an abuse of Christian values. It exploits and misrepresents genuine Christian compassion and the spirit of the Beatitudes to defend sin, deviance and even full-blown Satanism. Our society finds it difficult to resist the ideology of the misfit because already our Christian ethos has been distorted by the secularised Judaeo-Christian and classical Liberal prism, which has moved away from the central core and orthodox truth into a heretical position. It is instead the secular justification for degenerate and immoral behaviour that must not be judged. There is no true repentance and transformation. So often we see Western churches describe themselves as inclusive, which downplays repentance and transformation.
Instead of true compassion, the compassion that cares enough to put someone on the right path, we have abstract rights and abstract compassion. The person falling deeper and deeper into passions and nihilism must be affirmed in this subversive system. Society itself must be reshaped, subverted, turned upside down, in case anyone who has fallen is judged as having fallen. We are therefore a society that relies on the white lie, fake affirmation and a harsh individualism that abandons people to their bad choices, leading them into passions, social isolation and unhappiness - all understood as revolution against oppression.
The fear of being found out as having committed to the wrong decisions by becoming trapped by our own idiosyncrasies and deviance means society itself must deny reality. Thus Western civilisation that prides itself on its rationalism, its compassion and secretly on its superiority is turning into a living Hell. Everyone is going his own way and being affirmed in these deviations. It is of course fundamentally the democratic spirit, whereby our whims and preferences are the ultimate authority. As St John of Kronstadt put it - Hell is a democracy. And thus we all live in a topsy turvy world in which lies are affirmed and truth is regarded as oppressive.
