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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?
They need two things: useful idiots, and disarmed citizens.
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.
Universal suffrage has been a disaster for our Republic and Western civilization. There now exists an entire class of people in the US, predicted by de Tocqueville long ago, who pay NOTHING into the system but now vote in favor of policies and politicians who have systematically looted the treasury for nearly a century to distribute “free stuff” to this constituency thus purchasing their votes. THIS MUST END! There is no “fair” solution. We either must adopt a Heinleinien policy where only honorably discharged veterans are permitted to vote, or revert to early colonial American practices where the property tax roll was also the authorized voter roll. This in conjunction with a abolition of the income tax in favor of the Federal government funding itself primarily from export taxes and imports tariffs is probably the best solution
While both of those have benefits, getting them passed would be… well, it just wouldn’t happen under current conditions.
Something that would work almost as well and be… LESS difficult to pass (but still ridiculously difficult) would be “net taxpayer”, which is really what you’re after, I think, at the root. “Skin in the game.”
Basically, for any given tax year, you are a either a net tax payer or a net tax consumer. *Pay for employment* would count as normal, no matter the source (or government employees would never get to vote, and that’s a non-starter, realistically speaking).
For each office to be voted for, look at the last X years of your history, where X is the length of the term, so 2 for House, 4 for President, 6 for Senate.
If you are not “in the black”, either in net for those years or perhaps just for each of those years individually (that second would be better, but harder to pass), you are not eligible to vote for the office.
Donations (payment in excess of tax bill) counts, to if you’re in the negative, pay up until you are in the positive, or don’t vote. It’s not a poll tax – those who did not get such benefits would not need to pay it.
The reasoning here is that far too many people in our society are too mobile to settle somewhere and own land – they rent so that they can move to another city easily, etc. That is not inherently a bad thing.
Also, it avoids the Irish Lord problem – if you own a certain about of land in Ireland, you are a “lord” if you own basically ANY land, so people buy a literally one-square-foot piece of land and are now a lord… which doesn’t actually do much, of course.
But you could easily have similar problems with requiring land ownership – some guy in North Dakota sells 1-square foot plots of land for $50 with the condition that you rent it to him in perpetuity for $5 a year AND that he charges you $5 a year for “maintenance”. It makes a mockery of the whole thing… though I suppose it would prevent “same day registration” and some other stupid things.
If you make it large enough to prevent that kind of problem, there will be screams that it’s too large, and even people who own very small homes might not qualify. Etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
That’s not to say the scheme I am proposing is perfect or un-game-able, of course – no system is remotely perfect or immune to abuse. But it answers most of what is desired in a fashion that at least has some chance of being considered by people today.
I would also support a lifetime exemption from the requirement for combat veterans, which should be a slam dunk.
Your terms are acceptable. The devil is in the details. Who will compile and calculate and determine eligibility? Wiill it be a federal bureaucracy staffed with unionized federal employees?
Leftists simply want what they want….and are NEVER going to allow facts, reason or logic to interfere with getting what they want. They are essentially fundamentally defective people