Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "A concerning pattern in ALL Socialist childhoods" video.

  1. A few people have already noted the flaws in the way altruism is portrayed in this video. Having a desire to help other people does not stem from some form of self-hatred nor does it lead to it. That is possibly the most bizarre description I have ever heard and I gotta throw the BS flag. I don't think TIK is particularly religious but Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all require people to care for the less fortunate. That doesn't mean people of faith are by default self-loathing. The only religion I know that frowns on it are the Eastern faiths that believe in karma, that people are basically getting what they deserve for some past sin from a past life, and who are we to interfere with that? Socialism is one of the least altruistic systems devised by man. People are left off the hook since it falls on the state to provide for the poor. That is the appeal and it's why modern-day cultural Marxists place such a high premium on victimhood. It's not that they have some intrinsic desire to help the less fortunate, it's all about will to power where the so-called marginalized groups have replaced the proletariat as the new grievance-centric base for popular support. If the hardcore lefties ever got the power they desire in the U.S. and other western nations they wouldn't give two damns about those marginalized groups. Hell, they would probably put them at the head of the list for the trains heading to the new camps. I don't buy that argument at all that altruism is to blame for creating monsters. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro and on down the line, the one thing they all have in common is a rejection of God and a desire for a secular world where man is not held to any transcendent morality. A world where they set the rules, norms, and customs based on their own twisted desires, where justice and equity are arbitrary concepts based on what Rousseau called the general will, what they would call, what I want them to be. That is the essence of the end of history, the day when nothing that came before matters. The only thing that matters is today and what matters is left up to them, not some cultural belief system rooted in thousands of years of tradition. It's just what I say goes. It really is that simple, a pure desire for the acquisition and application of power, nothing more, nothing less. That's what drove very single one of those bastards.
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