Joe Biden and his running mate, the “president-elect,” Kamala Harris. Photo: The Circus on Showtime (CC BY 3.0) with campaign logo overlay.

Did you know that Leftism has infected science, religion and business? This fact may shock some people, especially those who remain confused by Leftist academics’ definitions of the terms “Left” and “Right.” And a growing number of people would be pleasantly gratified at this news, unknowingly applauding their own self-destruction.

I wasn’t always so political. As a young adult, I leaned toward the Left, politically, but only because I lived in increasingly Leftist California and had a need to fit in. It was also before I knew any better.

In my early days, I had grown up Democrat, but despised Communism, not realizing the similarities. Both promote Big, Centralized Government.

Since the terms “Left” and “Right” were first used during the French Revolution, more than 200 years ago, the Left’s definition hasn’t changed much. The one constant has been that of the collectivist mob—the evils of true democracy—where the individual outsider doesn’t stand a chance: Where 3 wolves and 1 sheep decide what is for lunch; and the smallest minority—the individual—has no protection against such a bloodthirsty mob.

Illustration of the execution of Marie Antoinette, showing the lengths to which Leftists will go to destroy the smallest minority – the individual. Painting: “Exécution de Marie Antoinette le 16 Octobre 1793,” by unknown artist (PD).

The definition for the Right has remained more vague—changing over time, and occasionally exhibiting self-contradictory traits. American economist, Thomas Sowell, discussed this problem in his book, Intellectuals and Society (2nd ed). He wrote, “What is called ‘the right’ are simply the various and disparate opponents of the left…. A rough summary of the vision of the political left today is that of collective decision-making through government, directed toward—or at least rationalized by—the goal of reducing economic and social inequalities” (Chapter 6).

One might credibly argue that the Left speaks of their own purpose in such glowing terms only to win gullible converts. Certainly, many believe the sales pitch, but history has shown that those groups associated with the hard Left have not lived up to the promise, or worse, lived up to equality in poverty, at least for most members of the collective. The leaders always put themselves above the so-called “equality.”

On the left, Russian Leftists, Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, September 1922. On the right, supreme Leftist, Benito Mussolini of Italy, January 1937. Photo of the Russian leaders: Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (PD). Photo of Italian leader: unknown photographer (PD).

In the same chapter, Sowell discusses the beliefs of the intelligentsia and adds, “When we turn from such images to specifics, there is remarkably little difference between Communists and Fascists, except for rhetoric, and there is far more in common between Fascists and even the moderate left than between either of them and traditional conservatives in the American sense…. Communism is socialism with an international focus and totalitarian methods. Benito Mussolini, the founder of Fascism, defined Fascism as national socialism in a state that was totalitarian, a term that he also coined. The same idea was echoed in Germany, in the name of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Hitler’s party, now almost always abbreviated as Nazis, thereby burying its socialist component.

“In short, the notion that Communists and Fascists were at opposite poles ideologically was not true, even in theory, much less in practice. As for similarities and differences between these two totalitarian movements and liberalism, on the one hand, or conservatism on the other, there was far more similarity between these totalitarians’ agendas and those of the democratic left than with the agendas of most conservatives.”

Two Leftists, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler sharing the spotlight together. Photo: unknown photographer (PD).

Pundits in politics, economics and law have muddied the waters even more, but Sowell attempts to add some clarity, observing, “However, the left seldom has any explicit principle by which the boundaries between government and individual decision-making can be determined, so that the natural tendency over time is for the scope of government decision making to expand, as more and more decisions are taken successively from private hands, since government officials constantly have incentives to expand their powers while the voters’ attention is not constantly focussed on maintaining limits on those powers.”

Perhaps the sharpest focus I’ve seen on the issue describes both the economic and political dichotomy in terms of individual liberty and the size of government.

I’m not the first to notice that the larger and more powerful the government, the smaller and more vulnerable the individual becomes.

At first glance, this may appear to be purely a political concern, but closer inspection reveals the economic element, too. But even here, there has been a great deal of confusion generated by some, so-called experts.

Big government favors big business and big business tends to favor big government. After all, big business has the money and big government the power.

The size of a company is itself neither Left nor Right, but the behavior of a company will tell us its position on the econo-political spectrum. Behavior is the key. As Christ said, we can tell a tree by the fruit it bears, and behavior is part of the product or “fruit” generated by a person or group.

Big business employees populate the executive offices of the government bureaus, departments and agencies which govern industries. Anyone who thinks there is no conflict of interest involved is enjoying the extremes of delusion.

The Wall Street “Bull,” symbol of Leftist Capitalism—the form of capitalism which prefers Big Government and thrives with onerous regulations. Illustration: #3112617_1920 by ArtTower (CC0) Pixabay.

This doesn’t mean that every big business is necessarily evil. Every business which relies on big government regulations to suppress the competition is evil, and there are plenty of that variety.

It is perhaps safe to say that all publicly-traded corporations and many privately-owned companies behave unethically, favoring the collective over the individual.

Privately-owned companies at least have a choice whether or not to be evil; it all depends on their owners.

The publicly-traded variety have a fiduciary duty to increase shareholder profits, even if it means betraying their customers or breaking the law. The instances of these two forms of unethical behavior are too numerous to detail, here, but we need only look at the lawsuits against Dow (chemical), PG&E (California energy sector), and various medical corporations, plus the scandal of banker greed in the financial meltdown of 2008.

The fact that major corporations can get away with murder, and pay only tiny fines compared to their profits, makes the entire Wall Street system decidedly evil. Don’t get me wrong. I love the idea of capitalism—but only capital without criminality.

The fact that big, publicly-traded corporations tend to despise, and possibly even fear, the Free Market Capitalists, helps to bring our picture into sharper focus:

Far Left: New Definition

Far Left = 100% government; 0% individual liberty and responsibility. Collectivism. Examples of Leftism by this approach, include Socialism, Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Crony Capitalism, Corporatism, and, in general, big, centralized power.

Far Right: New Definition

Far Right would thus be the opposite of these.

Far Right = 0% government; 100% individual liberty and responsibility. Individualism. Examples of Rightism would thus include Americanism (Constitutional Republic), anarchy (no ruler; not “chaos,” mind you), Free Market Capitalism, and decentralized power.

It remains ironic that Leftists condemn capitalism for its evil behavior, and rightly so, but that they also conflate Leftist Capitalism (the evil kind of capitalism) with the Free Market variety. Not very smart. Such collapsed identity thinking devolves into Capitalism = Capitalism = Capitalism = Bad Capitalism = Evil. That remains 1-Dimensional thinking of the worst kind; it’s “identity” thinking. It’s the mindset of an infant.

Capitalism is merely a tool that can be used or abused.

Too many on the Right praise Free Market Capitalism, and rightly so, but at the same time conflate the better variety with Leftist Capitalism. Not very smart. Such collapsed identity thinking devolves into Capitalism = Capitalism = Capitalism = Good Capitalism = Innocent Profit. That remains 1-Dimensional thinking of the worst kind; it’s “identity” thinking. It’s the mindset of an infant.

Such behavior on both sides contributes to the confusion and the bitter divisions in our society which separate us. When we get rid of the 1-Dimensional, identity thinking foisted onto us by Leftist media, pundits and academics, we find that Democrats and Republicans share far more in agreement. The differences are merely one of perception and methods for achieving the same goals. Leftists have distorted that perception, appealing to the Democrat’s baser fears, and the illusion that Big Government will diminish those fears.

Leftist hatred of police is no more evident than in a face-to-face confrontation between protestors and riot police. Baltimore. Photo: Courtesy Reddit.

This is similar to the ongoing insanity of Qualified Immunity for police. Many Democrats push to get rid of ALL cops, because a few have been bad. No discernment. No intelligent discrimination. This is more 1-Dimensional thinking.

The Republicans push to protect ALL cops, because some are good. No discernment. No intelligent discrimination. This is more 1-Dimensional thinking.

It’s almost as if there were a hidden third party using the same template to divide society along multiple lines, getting people to identify with one polar opposite or the other based on overly simplistic “identity” thinking.

Both the Democrats and Republicans are betraying Good cops and betraying the nation as a whole, because of their low-intelligence, or, if intentional, because of their own flabby ethics. Each party is feeding their respective ends of a painful dichotomy (two-sided problem).

Just as both sides are blindly mishandling the capitalism problem, both sides are blindly mishandling the police problem—and the race problem, the gender problem, the climate problem, etc.

The resolution is simple, but someone is holding the problem in place so that most people stay divided. If Democrats and Republicans got rid of bad cops and protected good cops, there would be no more problem. No more reason to riot. No more destruction of America. And this would make some very powerful and rich people very sad, or even angry.

If Democrats and Republicans got rid of bad corporations and protected good corporations, there would be no more problem with capitalism. No more reason to riot. No more destruction of America .

Democrats don’t want to own up to their own hypocrisy, pushing to riot, praising rioters and terrorists. Republicans, like the Trump administration, AG Barr (before his resignation) and Supreme Court (supposedly Republican dominated) refused to handle this rather simple police problem. Who is behind their “soft” treason? Who on the Trump Team is giving the Commander-in-Chief bad advice? Who told him that the 2,000-plus page trade agreement—the USMCA—was a good deal, when it contains TPP-like language that Trump had rightly rejected, and it contains betrayals of American sovereignty? And what idiot ever thought a trade agreement needed to be so huge you needed a cart to carry it? A lot of sneaky language buried in all those pages.

Leftist America



The legislative seat of America’s government, the Capitol building in Washington, DC, with the Communist flag of America overlain. Photo: #2645396_1920 by Cytis (CC0) Pixabay.

For the longest time, Communism in America was anathema, at least during my lifetime. The Deep State, run by the Globalist-Leftists, has long had its enemies and sought to destroy them, for many years accusing them of being “Communists.” The John Birch Society (JBS) was one such targeted group. JBS has long fought to keep American Constitutional liberty alive, and was one of the first groups to recognize and to fight against the Deep State. They were accused of being “Communists” during the 60s and 70s. Today, that accusation is no longer used, now that Communism is becoming popular, and now that diehard Communists would recognize the misapplied label; they would easily see through the 60-year-old lie—a lie that your author only recently recognized himself. My apologies to the Birchers for listening to Globalists like Nelson Rockefeller and their sleazy friends.

It remains profoundly saddening that the first great bastion of individual freedom—America—is sinking into the swamp of tyranny it had once tried to escape.

Psychopaths tend to migrate to positions of power, like moths to the flame. And psychopaths lie to get there. They lie to people to make them think Leftism will make things better. This is an old trick and continues to work, because uneducated or poorly educated people are more gullible.

Thus, America has been, over the last 150 years, slipping more and more deeply into the pit.

Leftists Hiding on the Right



The epitome of Leftists hiding on the Right, RINOs (Republicans in name only) Henry Kissinger chatting with Nelson Rockefeller (January 3, 1975), and Mitt Romney on the campaign trail in Paradise Valley, Arizona (2011). Photo of Kissinger and Rockefeller: unknown photographer (PD). Photo of Romney: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0).

For all of Trump’s talk of being a Constitutionalist (a good thing), a few of his more critical actions say the complete opposite of this claim. He has had supposed wins for the Right, but relatively little of significance against the real enemy—the Globalist-Leftists bent on destroying America. Don’t get me wrong, here, either. I love President Trump and his spirit. He’s not perfect, but he’s a trillion times better than either Biden or Harris.

But Trump’s refusal to handle Qualified Immunity for bad cops is helping the Globalists rip the country apart. Again, Trump’s USMCA trade agreement (NAFTA 2.0) is also a betrayal of American sovereignty, with its clauses giving power to multinational NGOs over America. And many of those clauses are similar to those found in the TPP agreement which Trump had rightly rejected!

Trump’s behavior has been strong and heroic in the same vein that Obama had been smooth-talking and sometimes eloquent—for Obama had been all public relations bluster, covering up clear acts of treason. Trump is a Leftist who calls himself a Conservative and a Christian. He loves big government—the opposite of the Constitution’s core theme and the purpose behind Americanism. Trump loves imminent domain—including private businesses taking private property, abusing the individual for the collective gain. Still, there’s a lot to love about Trump, especially if he succeeds in thwarting Leftist crimes.

Christ said that we can tell a tree by the fruit it bears, and all recent presidents have give us bad fruit—from Johnson to Obama.

Some Leftists do a better job hiding on the Right, but they are betraying their supposed base—the self-identified “Conservatives”—the ones who want to conserve the Constitution which changed the way nations were run.

Leftism Definition Expanded

Hard Leftists tend not to like individual heroism. This makes them far worse than Trump, who is immensely heroic. They prefer, instead, collectivist obedience and conformity. Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” provides us with a satirical view of the inevitable destination of such irrationality—a world where the talented are handicapped to prevent them from taking “unfair advantage” over others. The victim-oppressor dichotomy taken to its most absurd extreme. Vonnegut’s chilling dystopia has been adapted numerous times, including the 1995 television movie of the same name, and the 2009 short film, 2081. I strongly encourage the reader to view that short film in its entirety.

Leftists accuse those on the Right of being selfish, because of their individualism. Leftists tend to be control freaks. Your author is a recovering, former control freak, himself, so he finds it easy to recognize his old behavior in others.

But this accusation by Leftists tends to obscure their own selfishness. Leftists crave the safety of the collective, so they will selfishly sacrifice the individual for their own selfish needs, and justify it by pointing to the idea of the collective benefiting from the forced sacrifice—sometimes murder—of an individual.

Leftists proclaim to be freedom loving, thus they use the term “Liberal,” but in practice, the collective will only allow freedom if that free will doesn’t jeopardize the neat orderliness of the group. This is little more than the safety of the straightjacket and the padded cell—safe, but far from liberated.

This behavioral trait can be found polluting more than government and the economy.

Leftism in Science



Leftist corruption in science wouldn’t be the same without climate hoaxster, Michael E. “Hockey Stick” Mann (2019). His Climate-Gate emails helped reveal the fraud Leftists have been perpetrating on humanity. Photo: Joshua Yospyn (CC BY 3.0).

Have you ever heard the term “scientific consensus?” That is an oxymoron more sinister than most. So is the term “settled science,” because science is never ever settled by its most basic definition; science only ever finds relative truths—never absolutes.

The chief, but flawed paradigm of scientific discovery, skepticism, is defined,

skepticism n.—A doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind; dubiety. A methodology based on an assumption of doubt with the aim of acquiring approximate or relative certainty. [emphasis added]

See the part about “approximate or relative certainty?” But that’s not the focus, here. See the word “doubt?”

Scientific method rightly condemns bias in the testing of hypotheses and analyses of the results of those tests. But “doubt” remains a potent negative bias! Something is horribly wrong here, and history is chock full of examples of derailed logic stemming directly from this paradigm flaw.

There is so much wrong in science and in the behavior of scientists that we could fill a book with it all. In fact, my schedule for 2021 includes the writing of a book on this seriously defective paradigm.

On the topic of Leftism, science has become shackled with Big Centralized, Collectivist thinking in the form of “peer review” and “consensus” thinking. Too many central planners “killing” the heroic individuals.

Truth does not care about evidence or consensus. Every human could be horribly wrong, just as they were with the Ptolemaic hypothesis of a geocentric universe, or the phlogiston hypothesis entertained by the greats of 17th century science, including Sir Isaac Newton!

One prime example of this travesty—and there are many—involves North American anthropology and the now debunked “Clovis First” dogma. For decades, scientists were warned not to dig below the Clovis horizon, or they could risk losing their funding—or their careers. Think about this for a moment: the patently false declaration that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” can never be fulfilled if evidence is never accumulated in the first place—if scientists are bullied into not looking!

Leftism in Religion



Two forms of Leftist corruption in religion—(left) burning Joan of Arc at the stake, the opposite of Christ’s teachings; (right) two women, one wearing a Muslim burqa, and the other wearing the blindfold of ignorance (representing the hypocrisy of Leftists who are triggered by the poster, “Muslims are right about women.” Painting (1843): Hermann Stilke (PD). Photo: YouTube screenshot.

Religion has long been Leftist in its behavior, except at its earliest moments.

Christ taught freedom and responsibility; the church teaches conformity and leaving responsibility with those who “know better.” With the church, we went from extreme Right to extreme Left, with the biggest Left-turn in the 4th century AD all because of that political hack, Constantine the Not-So-Great. The church turned even further Left with the crimes of Emperor Justinian, some 200 years later.

Eleven centuries later, Martin Luther fought against that corruption, but the Protestant movement soon broke into their own versions of collectivist thinking, giving ego the upper hand, once again.

Today, many Christian groups will not tolerate “wrong think” as they define it. They do not tolerate dangerous questions that could weaken their own dogma. So, their members are protected from having to work with humility toward a greater understanding of God’s lessons. It’s almost as if they are implying for themselves an omniscience for which there is no evidence! They “know” everything that is needed, but they don’t yet have Christ’s abilities with miracles—an ability he promised those who would truly follow him.

And this last statement begs the question: “Who amongst the more than one billion Christians is actually following Christ?” I’ve experienced dozens of miracles, but I know with a shuddering certainty that I am not yet worthy of calling myself “Christian,” even though I do use the term, longingly.

Leftism in religion might also include the old perversion of biblical literalism (modern Pharisees), and the new perversion of “flat earthism” that has crept into the modern church. This last item too me completely by surprise. I was helping a believer out with writing articles for his anti-abortion website, and recommended a video similar to one I had created for my own channel. When he saw my rough draft of the video, he asked that I take out the photo of a spherical Earth, because many of his associates believed in the new “flat Earth” dogma. Now, I have another book title added to my list of projects—Round Earth for Christians. I’ll likely do that one before Evolution for Christians. So many wacky beliefs based on religious wrong-think—dogma instead of logic—literalism instead of the Holy Spirit and humility.

Solutions to Leftism

The primary solution to Leftism in all forms is one that involves both awareness and good critical thinking skills. And this solution requires far better education than even I received in school—long before the current swamp of Common Core lunacy. More articles like this one could help, but only if the person reading it is not already blinded by the kinds of certainty that prevent them from thinking in certain ways. And one solution to that potential barrier is a greater appreciation of the need for humility.