The essence of leftism.

Two comments by jack_gott on an American Thinker piece on a stunning example of leftist "willful naivete":

Leftism destroys everything it touches: the family, commerce, health, environment. It has only two attractive features. First, internally, it allows its adherents to feel pure, 'modern', superior and redeemed. Second, externally, it fulfills the mythological need for a villain on which to blame all the evils of the world. Leftism is very much a religion, a cult. America.... it was a good idea while it lasted. It's over.

And:

Their hate will never end. The Left has successfully converted most Americans to the religion of Leftism. By taking over the educational system, the Left has raised a generation of Americans who will never stop hating freedom, capitalism, and the 'individual liberties' articulated in the US Constitution. My advice: stop wasting your time using logic on these cultists. You cannot 'reason' a person out of something they were never 'reasoned' into. They hate you. They will always hate you.

Comments by jack_gott on "Escape from New York - with a twist." By Andrew Thomas, American Thinker, 2/21/14.