The Left and War
They're not consistent, but they're very opinionated
The Left in the United States is incapable of looking at any conflict on earth through a lens of realism. (By “Left” I mean the mainstream Left - MSNBC watching, Joe Biden voting, pride flag waving types). They simply have to choose a side to root for and advocate the US government intervene for.
The exceptions to this are, of course, wars they’re not aware of. These are not deep thinkers or particularly curious folks, and they are completely ignorant of things happening that aren’t being highlighted by Corporate media or Democrat politicians.
But once the Regime decides it wants to involve itself in a foreign conflict, Leftists from Brooklyn to San Francisco immediately choose a side and change their social media profiles to let the world know about it. The problem for our ruling class, however, is that The Left in this country doesn’t always side with them. For a Leftist in 2024, a foreign war is merely an extension of the woke racial and sexual conflicts they stoke here at home. There has to be a more powerful “oppressor” waging war against a “victim” and The Left sides with the perceived victim every time while shutting their minds off to any opposing viewpoint.
A war where a Republican president intervenes militarily automatically makes the US the aggressor and turns that entire side of the political spectrum against it almost immediately.
When a Democrat president decides to fund a war or bomb a country, they are usually able to sell it through this victim narrative The Left is so obsessed with. We saw it with Lybia where Obama and Hillary Clinton completely destroyed that country and killed tens of thousands of people. But they supposedly did it to stop the Lybian government (the powerful aggressors) from slaughtering democracy loving rebels (the victims) and therefore The Left cheered it on despite the outcome being disastrous for an relatively weak African country and the original justification being a lie.
There’s a similar dynamic going on in Ukraine right now where just about everyone on The Left thinks the US should pour endless money to prolong that war so that Russia (the powerful aggressor) can’t claim victory or territory over Ukraine (the victims). Literally zero thought is given as to why Russia invaded in the first place and the very real possibility of almost immediate peace if Ukraine would negotiate with Putin is dismissed out of hand in favor of more slaughter.
Where The Regime is running into problems is with the latest “war,” if you can call it that, in the Middle East. No amount of tortured logic from the anti-Trump neocons currently infiltrating the Democrat Party can convince some purple haired Humanities major that the white Israelis are the victims of the brown Palestinians. Both parties have been laundering taxpayer money through Israel back into their campaign coffers for generations now, but the monsters they’ve created on The Left with their victim narratives are finally calling their bluffs.
The Democrat Party of the Clintons and Obamas may finally be on its death bed. Thank God!