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People on the right who have been mentally modelling the world since they were kids, constantly updating and revising their mental model so that it’s able to reliably anticipate basic functioning of the world around us, so we can navigate the world without being blindsided all the time; have trouble internalising this:
- leftists don’t abide by the principle of non-contradiction
- they do not understand the world through abstract or ideal first principles which they then apply universally, in a predictable and stable manner
- like situations are therefore not alike
- everything is its own thing & has no bearing on anything else
- noticing patterns is racist hateful and evil so they stopped doing that a long time ago, pattern recognition is haram
Every position they hold is a unique stance that they imbibed from the media. They don’t start from an abstraction and think critically to rach their conclusion. They literally watched Colbert and had it drilled into their brain. They don’t have first principles or universal values. They do what they are told. Because it benefits their coalition to do so. That’s it.
That’s their whole worldview and it’s why they don’t flinch when they contradict themselves. They don’t have an “ideology” arrived at through abstract reasoning or critical thinking, they’re part of a cult that does everything humanly possible to prevent them from ever thinking about anything for any reason. They regurgitate the party line and experience affirmation and inclusion from their peers when they do. So they keep doing it. It’s that basic. They are Pavlov’s dog.
Aimee Terese @aimeeterese
Posted April 7, 2026 on X
I can see this being true for a high percentage of the people on the left. Those who are also known as “useful idiots”.
But there are also those who are rational, deliberate, and carefully choose their words and actions. These are the Lenins, Castros, Pol Pots, Mao Zedongs, Sanderses, Schumers, and Clintons of history — the folks who promise progress but somehow always end up needing more of your land, your money, and your compliance, all enforced under pain of death.
” those who are rational, deliberate, and carefully choose their words and actions. These are the Lenins, Castros, Pol Pots . . ”
Would these architects be as dangerous if they had no useful idiots to operate?
No. That is why the idiots are useful.
Yep, still showing as not a reply to what you are obviously replying to…
No biggie, just letting you know it’s still a thing.
One important thing to remember about this: the left doesn’t have a monopoly on this.
Oh sure, right now (and for the last 2+ decades), they’ve had a large (and increasing!) share of those “useful idiots, as they have been actively working to produce and attract them, but there is a baseline, a chunk of people who just… don’t want to think about this stuff, who want someone to just crib their beliefs from.
And who they crib from is based on what’s popular among “their” people – usually, the group they grew up around, but sometimes, they pick another one just to rebel a bit.
So, while that’s a huge problem in our dealings with ‘the left’, we have a not-insignificant population of such thoughtless parrots ourselves. There is no escaping that portion of humanity – it’s always around.
We need some way to deal with it, to either convince said people to just not bother voting (as best I can tell, that’s what happened with a lot of them back before… say, Rock the Vote, or so? When the Democrats figured out that convincing those idiots to vote was easier than convincing deliberate voters to vote for dumb things) or split them more evenly (which feels “icky” to people who actually care about their beliefs). Sorry, I’m not much help in actually accomplishing that, but it’s something we need to figure out.