Residual Unresolved Leftism in the conspiracy community

[Bruce G Charlton]

The opposite of Leftism is not "the Right" - because what gets called The Right in mainstream politics (conservatives, republicans, libertarians, nationalists etc.) are just another type of Leftism - a reaction against one or other aspect of Leftism.

The opposite of Leftism is Religion - or one sort or another: but Religion not Spirituality - because spirituality subtracts the metaphysical assumptions of religion, which is in practice just another type of 'therapeutic' Leftism.

This is because Leftism is essentially the focus on a variety of this-worldly, material putative-causes of human suffering as the ultimate and bottom line value -- the contrast to which is those (traditional and, I hope, future) societies for whom the ultimate values are linked to a divine and spiritual reality beyond this mortal life.

Leftism therefore equals this worldly materialist values of all kinds; and the opposite is other-worldly divine/ spiritual values = religion.


And Leftism is The problem in the modern world, because the demonic powers have (for the past couple of centuries) adopted Leftism as their primary strategy for world domination and mass spiritual corruption.

Leftism has taken and amplified real problems to generate vast strategies - any one of which is a battering-ram capable of global corruption of masses of Men.


There are currently about half a dozen of these evil-weaponized Left-strategies active globally; and there are very few people who are not vulnerable to At Least one of them.

It only takes One of these to lead, incrementally, to support of the globalist totalitarian agenda who have bureaucratically (and by the mass media) co-opted and infiltrated essentially All of the major institutions of the world - including all the major Western churches (as became undeniable from church behaviour during the recent covid/ vax business).

I call these the Litmus Test issues, and there are about half a dozen of them currently active (in no particular order):

1. Anti-Russian/ Chinese hatred via the Ukraine war
2. The covid plandemic and vax - "healthism" in general
3. Antiracism/ anti-whiteism
4. The sexual revolution - including pro-promiscuity, pro-feminism, pro-homosexuality and the transagenda
5. Transhumanism - the technological 'superceding' and replacement of human beings
6. CO2 Global Warmism/ Climate Change/ modern environmentalism
7. Socialism based on class - now much reduced compared with a century ago, but this has been subsumed into the Diversity/ Inclusion/ Equality agenda

My point is that very few people in the Conspiracy community have seen-through All of these Litmus Tests, to the point of recognizing them as having been (here-and-now) thoroughly corrupted into strategic tools of evil.

These are what constitute the Residual and Unresolved Leftism (RUL) of the conspiracy community:

Residual because pretty much all modern people come from a Left perspective on the world (myself included - I joined the Labour Party on my 16th birthday; having become a declared atheist aged six).

Unresolved because we have invested in these issues at some point in our lives, and retain a loyalty to them.

After all, Leftism was much less corrupted in the past than it is now - and at some points and places was even 'net-good' (at least in this-worldly terms) compared with the available alternatives.


So we all harbour one or more aspects of Residual Unresolved Leftism, therefore everybody needs to become aware of his own RULs - so as to avoid being manipulated via these weak-points by the spiritual powers of purposive evil.

Ultimately, the only genuine alternative to mainstream global totalitarianism is 'religion' - and therefore if we wish to oppose evil, the question each needs to ask of himself is 'which religion?'

And then, because all mainstream Western churches (and 'spiritualities') are corrupted to the agenda of evil - we each need to embark on a personal quest for the truth of religion: which is the truth of reality.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
I call these the Litmus Test issues, and there are about half a dozen of them currently active (in no particular order):

1. Anti-Russian/ Chinese hatred via the Ukraine war
2. The covid plandemic and vax - "healthism" in general
3. Antiracism/ anti-whiteism
4. The sexual revolution - including pro-promiscuity, pro-feminism, pro-homosexuality and the transagenda
5. Transhumanism - the technological 'superceding' and replacement of human beings
6. CO2 Global Warmism/ Climate Change/ modern environmentalism
7. Socialism based on class - now much reduced compared with a century ago, but this has been subsumed into the Diversity/ Inclusion/ Equality agenda

My point is that very few people in the Conspiracy community have seen-through All of these Litmus Tests, to the point of recognizing them as having been (here-and-now) thoroughly corrupted into strategic tools of evil.

Bruce, Hi there, many thanks once again for another excellent thought-provoking thread, and here is a VERY abbreviated reply, pretty much my first response when reading this first thing in the morning here my time. (6 am with my first cup of ! )

Your litmus test list is very interesting. I'm proud that the Avalon 'alt community' is (I would contend) pretty much in universal agreement about all those issues which I personally consider almost self-evident.

But there's a rider here. I'd argue very strongly that the binary Left—Right dichotomy, which we so often see, read and hear, is way over-simplistic and no longer useful. There aren't just two variables, two kinds of distinct personal worldview. There are many, with many parameters and sub-categories. The real 'linear spectrum' might better be shown on a 2x2 grid (4 distinct stances), or maybe a 2x2x2 cube (8 of them). Or possibly even more.

There's a thread about this already, in which I attempted to parse this out a little better:

• The "Right-Left" dichotomy: false, simplistic, & manipulative.

As a thought experiment, I'd defy anyone to try to place me personally on any Left—Right spectrum. I'm pro-environment, anti-imperialism, anti-war (yes, really; but war is sometimes necessary as a last resort when the weak and corrupt global legal system fails), anti-greed, pro-Christian (although I'm not a Christian myself; I'm more of a Buddhist), anti-capitalism, pro-family, pro-education, pro-tradition, pro-national culture, pro-health sovereignty, anti-recreational drugs, pro-equality of opportunity, anti-personal surveillance, anti-big business, anti-big pharma, anti-big banking, anti-big agro, anti-globalisation, anti-hunting for sport, anti-censorship... etc etc etc.

I'm also anti-democracy in many ways, because democracy doesn't work; it's a failed, corrupt system, all based on the idealistic false premise that everyone in a society is equally bright and well-informed, which is clearly not true. That's a huge controversial topic in itself, with no easy solutions anywhere. The opposite of democracy isn't fascism or totalitarianism. It has to be something else, maybe a concept that only indigenous cultures might understand.

But — back to topic. My views, all of them strongly held, are sprinkled right across the simple linear spectrum. If anyone tried to place me either on the 'Right' or the 'Left', I'd be able to dismiss each case very easily.

[Bruce G Charlton]

@Bill "I'd argue very strongly that the binary Left—Right dichotomy, which we so often see, read and hear, is way over-simplistic and no longer useful. "

Just to pick up on this and make a clarification. I agree, as I said above - but because The Left now includes everything in the mainstream of public discourse, including all major social institutions - corporations, bureaucracies, agencies, churches... everything is now multiply-linked with The System/ The Matrix. Not to the same degree in all instances, but sufficient to put them onto a slippery slope of corruption and convergence.

So there really is no Right at all - of any significant size, power, wealth or status - just different types and flavours of Left: because the Left has expanded to include everything that is permitted... it can all be traced lineally back to Leftism.

That is the point I am making. The System/ Matrix has become all-pervasive in official and mass discourse - and we must get to the level of interpersonal discourse to escape it - and this is narrowing all the time.

In other words it is - I believe - much more difficult than most conspiracy people suppose actually to extricate oneself from The System to be able to see, critique and understand it. And what holds many of us within The System is - I suggest - Residual Leftism.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
because The Left now includes everything in the mainstream of public discourse, including all major social institutions - corporations, bureaucracies, agencies, churches... everything is now multiply-linked with The System/ The Matrix. Not to the same degree in all instances, but but sufficient to put them onto a slippery slope of corruption and convergence.

Yes, totally agreed!

Part of this, of course, is how "The Left" is the new totalitarianism. Citizens must conform to the prescribed orthodoxy, or be punished.

One way of correcting the linear dichotomy is to curve it round into a circle. The extremes of "Right" and "Left" converge and become almost indistinguishable.

[arwen]

[T Smith]

Here is an overly simplistic test that nonetheless measures the ballpark of where one falls on a political scale (a couple more dimensions than the standard linear continuum between left and right)--but still a somewhat crude measurement.

One problem I have with tests like these is the questions often presuppose a given disposition. For example, this test asks the participant to either STRONGLY AGREE, AGREE, DISAGREE, OR STRONGLY DISAGREE with statements like:

controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment

This question pigeonholes the test taker and presupposes she/he agrees with economic central planning as a given, whereas an accurate reflection of political disposition might be STRONGLY AGREE/AGREE/DISAGREE/STRONGLY DISAGREE with central planning altogether, or the attempt to centrally control anything, be it inflation or unemployment.

In any case, this is an interesting little test to take to gauge an idea--albeit a fuzzy one--of where one falls ideologically.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Further clarification!

I realize I have not said something about what I call The Left that is very important; which is that The Left is innately and ultimately oppositional - hence negative, or double-negative - in nature.

Thus Leftism was supposed to be about promoting equality (a positive value), but turns-out to against inequality - a double-negative, or differences. Supposed to be in favour of women's rights, but turns out to be against men. Supposed to be promoting the interests of blacks, but turns out to be anti-white. Not in favour of nature, but against CO2; not in favour of Ukraine but against Russia etc.

(Nearly always, the group that the Left is supposed to be promoting is harmed by Left policies - yet the policies get doubled-down on: e.g. the working class, women, blacks, nature, Ukrainians - all have been overwhelmingly net-damaged by Leftism.)

This is why and how The Left is fundamentally (and increasingly) incoherent, and can therefore never be damaged by pointing-out inconsistency or hypocrisy.

And why the Left nowadays has no positive goal or end point for its policies; why it tends towards perpetual revolution and always turns-upon its previous heroes and values (after all; socialism-communism in the UK/ US/ USSR once promoted native, white, working-class family-men (The Proletariat) as its prime heroes!).

The oppositional nature of Leftism is seen by the fact that resentment has been inverted from a sin to a virtue; and by observing how much System propaganda is designed to induce resentment by bolstering and inventing 'victim groups'.

This is also how the Left recruits: everybody can regard themselves as members of one or more victim group, is officially-encouraged to be resentful against their own 'oppression' - and to demand restitution (and revenge)...

(While at the same time being tormented with guilt and edged towards despair, because of also being members of one or another victimizing oppressor group!)

Ultimately, the negativism and oppositional nature of Leftism is a consequence of its being a strategic tool of demonic evil - which is of its nature negative and oppositional to God and divine creation. Leftism has proved itself an almost infinitely-flexible tool for subversion, destruction and inversion of real values - by provoking an insatiable desire for limitless opposition to The Good (i.e. truth, beauty and virtue in harmony) - by ideological-oppositions of protean contradictory kinds.

[T Smith]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
Further clarification!

I realize I have not said something about what I call The Left that is very important; which is that The Left is innately and ultimately oppositional - hence negative, or double-negative - in nature.

Thus Leftism was supposed to be about promoting equality (a positive value), but turns-out to against inequality - a double-negative, or differences. Supposed to be in favour of women's rights, but turns out to be against men. Supposed to be promoting the interests of blacks, but turns out to be anti-white. Not in favour of nature, but against CO2; not in favour of Ukraine but against Russia etc.

(Nearly always, the group that the Left is supposed to be promoting is harmed by Left policies - yet the policies get doubled-down on: e.g. the working class, women, blacks, nature, Ukrainians - all have been overwhelmingly net-damaged by Leftism.)

This is why and how The Left is fundamentally (and increasingly) incoherent, and can therefore never be damaged by pointing-out inconsistency or hypocrisy.

And why the Left nowadays has no positive goal or end point for its policies; why it tends towards perpetual revolution and always turns-upon its previous heroes and values (after all; socialism-communism in the UK/ US/ USSR once promoted native, white, working-class family-men (The Proletariat) as its prime heroes!).

The oppositional nature of Leftism is seen by the fact that resentment has been inverted from a sin to a virtue; and by observing how much System propaganda is designed to induce resentment by bolstering and inventing 'victim groups'.

This is also how the Left recruits: everybody can regard themselves as members of one or more victim group, is officially-encouraged to be resentful against their own 'oppression' - and to demand restitution (and revenge)...

(While at the same time being tormented with guilt and edged towards despair, because of also being members of one or another victimizing oppressor group!)

Ultimately, the negativism and oppositional nature of Leftism is a consequence of its being a strategic tool of demonic evil - which is of its nature negative and oppositional to God and divine creation. Leftism has proved itself an almost infinitely-flexible tool for subversion, destruction and inversion of real values - by provoking an insatiable desire for limitless opposition to The Good (i.e. truth, beauty and virtue in harmony) - by ideological-oppositions of protean contradictory kinds.

This is a very good summary of identity politics and an appropriate explanation why such disposition is destructive to society.

In my experience, the majority of people who embrace this brand of leftism, or RULs as you call them, have no idea what they're latching onto. What it is supposed to be (something the majority of us would agree with) and what it is, are two different things.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I don't agree with the op.

Leftism has a stigma attached to it - by the rightists. 'Crazy Liberals' is a term long ago coined for activists, who at the time actually stood for good.

Here's the rub. Liberals wanted to help the plight of those who have been bulldozed by society in its unbridled pursuit of profit. The bottom line has always been, and still is, that a government should not be spending money for humanitarian aid to other countries until it has its own house in order. Not one country has done this, yet when an emergency in the high finance world comes along the money poured into it to save it is almost limitless. This proves there is plenty of money, just no political will to help those less fortunate in our own countries.

This has been proven without doubt in the last few years where we spent untold amounts on a fake pandemic from the public coffers. Money was found in the hundreds of billions. Magic!
But no money for our bottom 30%. Except, if you live in some impoverished hellhole halfway around the world our governments will send copious amounts of aid.

As Bill has said in other threads recently, the world cannot be broken down into left and right anymore, if it ever could be. The left has been vilified in recent years and rightfully so. But the right is guilty of the same type of atrocities.

When I was younger the line was easily drawn like this:
Left cares for the average person.
Right cares for the average business.

Now it's:
Left cares for the fringe of society.
Right cares for big money.

Who cares for the average Jill and Joe now?

It is the logical extension of ideas that have no true goal but are more interested in semantics and appearances.

The goal for any human collaboration should be the improvement of the human condition. Not externals that may or may not translate into its improvement but actual material firsthand remedies.

The left and the right are both guilty of failing the human family.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Yes indeed - but the reason the world cannot be broken into Left and Right anymore, is that The Left Has Won - as is obvious if we rewind three or four centuries, to see how things started before the lineal ancestors of Leftism began.

The other reason is that there is no 'Right' in the West. To get back to The Right in The West would require, as I say, a rewind of some centuries (depending on the place) to the types of monarchial theocracy.

What the ruling Leftists currently call The Right (or the "Far Right") has drifted so far leftward over the generations that it would be regarded as literally off-the-map (in a Leftward direction, of course!) three or four hundred years ago.

Therefore mainstream politics is like the proverbial Punch and Judy Show, with Punch on the left hand advocating more and more Leftism; and Judy on his right hand - quibbling over microscopic policy details, while accepting the aims and assumptions of Punch - both operated by the same Leftist puppeteer, who can easily swap the puppets onto opposite hands whenever it is expedient.

[ExomatrixTV]

Original classic liberals are now considered "far right" because they hold some basic values & principles that nowadays are "verboten" ... almost everything gets inverted and/or hijacked (infiltrated) to be corrupted.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[rgray222]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)

Ultimately, the negativism and oppositional nature of Leftism is a consequence of its being a strategic tool of demonic evil - which is of its nature negative and oppositional to God and divine creation. Leftism has proved itself an almost infinitely-flexible tool for subversion, destruction and inversion of real values - by provoking an insatiable desire for limitless opposition to The Good (i.e. truth, beauty and virtue in harmony) - by ideological-oppositions of protean contradictory kinds.

In the last 8 years, the left has been exposed as the engine of evil. Using the term "left" (I believe) is a huge mistake because most people tend to think in terms of politics when discussing left and right. A more fitting, simple, and accurate description of what is happening in the world today is the struggle between good and evil. Evil has co-opted entire races of people and put millions of so-called immigrants on the march and they have cleverly bastardized entire institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization to name just a few. They have managed to enslave these people and institutions by creating and using the World Economic Forum. The majority of people that reside on this planet are good, they could care less about left and right politics, they still do have values that matter and they are under attack every day.

China is not innocent in this struggle they have financially enslaved many countries around the world using their Belt and Road initiative. A few countries that China has already dropped in its pocket are Argentina, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia, Tajikistan, Myanmar, Venezuela, North Korea, Zambia, and Iran. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that the largest beneficiary of global governance will be China. You can believe what you want but I think that China developed COVID and intentionally released it on the world to destabilize world governments and hasten the demise of the USA. On top of that, their influence over the WHO allowed them to cover up this evil act perpetrated on the world. When and if China dominates world policy it will be a very bad day for all the countries on earth. The global government initiative now has strong and important allies in the USA from Biden to Obama, and all the progressives in the house and senate.

While we are in the early days of this struggle (which in short order will be a hot war) it is almost impossible to know who is good and who is evil. I know that this will be extremely controversial but two people that I honestly believe are evil to the core are Obama and Putin. It is a huge mistake to judge these men on their words, they must be judged on their actions. These two men and there are others who are nothing more than shapeshifters that design their message for their current audience. We do not need people that speak of world peace while escalating war around the globe like Obama giving orders through Biden. We don't need people like Putin who rage against globalization but yet participate in it. We don't need people like Putin who speak of world peace and at the same time participate in war.

The world teeters very vicariously on a nuclear cliff and any action that escalates tensions and conflict should be immediately shut down.

[Ernie Nemeth]

I might be wrong but twice now religion has been used as the fundamental issue.
And it seems what the actual argument is, is that 'God Is Dead!'. And therefore, Liberalism won.

I categorically refute that assertion, of course. (That aside.)

However, I do believe that this is, at its core, an issue of good versus evil. But remaining in the mundane and material...


In my opinion, what seems to be a big win for Liberalism is actually a win for the United Nations and its front organizations. This is their move. But no one wants to hear about how their governments are under attack by the UN on purpose, with the goal of dissolving the sovereignty of all nations and installing an unelected global leadership. They hide that under the excuses of Liberalism. No true liberal of old wants a one world government, absolutely no true conservative does either.

A one world government is an ideal. It can be aspired to or even emulated but it cannot be brought about by coercion or devious tactics without the very real possibility of becoming a tyrannical dictatorial regime.

[ExomatrixTV]

• What the Heck is Communitarianism? ...

[Michel Leclerc]

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)

(...)

I call these the Litmus Test issues, and there are about half a dozen of them currently active (in no particular order):

1. Anti-Russian/ Chinese hatred via the Ukraine war
2. The covid plandemic and vax - "healthism" in general
3. Antiracism/ anti-whiteism
4. The sexual revolution - including pro-promiscuity, pro-feminism, pro-homosexuality and the transagenda
5. Transhumanism - the technological 'superceding' and replacement of human beings
6. CO2 Global Warmism/ Climate Change/ modern environmentalism
7. Socialism based on class - now much reduced compared with a century ago, but this has been subsumed into the Diversity/ Inclusion/ Equality agenda

(...)

Well Bruce..

Are other choices possible apart from Pro or Contra?

Can one pick one’s choice among -isms that you put under one heading (one number)?

Have you considered adding Litmus Testism to the list?

Have you considered ismism? (You might, because once you consider that human reality can be described by isms, you certainly should make the idea iterative.)

Thank you for considering answering my – multiple – questions.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)

Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)

(...)

I call these the Litmus Test issues, and there are about half a dozen of them currently active (in no particular order):

1. Anti-Russian/ Chinese hatred via the Ukraine war
2. The covid plandemic and vax - "healthism" in general
3. Antiracism/ anti-whiteism
4. The sexual revolution - including pro-promiscuity, pro-feminism, pro-homosexuality and the transagenda
5. Transhumanism - the technological 'superceding' and replacement of human beings
6. CO2 Global Warmism/ Climate Change/ modern environmentalism
7. Socialism based on class - now much reduced compared with a century ago, but this has been subsumed into the Diversity/ Inclusion/ Equality agenda

(...)

Well Bruce..

Are other choices possible apart from Pro or Contra?

Can one pick one’s choice among -isms that you put under one heading (one number)?

Have you considered adding Litmus Testism to the list?

Have you considered ismism? (You might, because once you consider that human reality can be described by isms, you certainly should make the idea iterative.)

Thank you for considering answering my – multiple – questions.

One thing about the Litmus Tests is that they were devised and recognized from my Christian perspective (Romantic Christian, as I term it - to emphasize the experiential and individual - therefore not church - basis).

The Tests are about the discernment of sin - sin being that which opposes God and divine creation.

And the Tests are twofold because they are binary.

First the Tests are a product of the evil totalitarian System which is being applied to all people within reach of The System. And secondly the Tests can be used by those of us who wish to discern (and reject) sin, in a world where value-inversion is being propagated and imposed ever more widely and forcefully - especially by means of the strategic-themes of these Tests.

(They are testing Us; and We can therefore test Them. Two sides of the same coin.)

The Litmus Tests are applied at points where spiritual discernment is currently vital, because almost unavoidable, because these are (at present) the strategic priorities of those who serve the agenda of evil - and therefore individuals will be (sooner or later) sought-out, cornered, and put under pressure to take these Tests. The totalitarian regime now requires explicit and active support for these Tests - no neutrality is allowed, because reluctance to enthuse over and support the prescribed topics, is diagnosed as active opposition, hatred, conspiracy etc.

We live in a world where there is a de facto world government that dominate all bureaucratic political and social institutions (including church leadership) and the mass/ social media. These are the agents of a supernatural demonic agenda directed against God, The Good and divine creation.

Therefore - since The System is evil, and we all depend-upon and interact-with The System - unless Christians have sufficient discernment to identify and spiritually reject the official and pervasive agenda of evil - Christians will-have-been recruited to the side of the devil...

This is a simple matter of fact, and whether they know it or not.

Repentance has infinite power and can happen at any moment. But a Christian must actually repent! And if/when a Christian has failed to identify sin as such, he will not repent. And not to repent is to embrace damnation (which is exactly why the powers of evil have devised and implemented these Litmus Test projects).

In other words, as of The West in 2023 - active and explicit spiritual discernment is mandatory for salvation.

Because anyone who is unconscious or passive about what he believes, is actually just believing what The System tells him.

Such a person will be value-inverted (the most advanced form of evil) believing that some evil is Good (and some Good is evil) - and will therefore not repent.

Not repenting means he will regard sin as Good, and thereby choose his own damnation (which is the only way that anyone is damned - by their own choice).

So, in essence, the Litmus test issues are unavoidable - because The System has made them unavoidable - and there are only two ultimate alternative responses to these Tests (although people can, of course, change their minds).

[mizo]

It's rather simplistic: As I prefer to see/ view/feel it as it's either Up or Down rather than Left or Right.

Up it feels correct- natural or Down it feels incorrect- unnatural.

[Bruce G Charlton]

Posted by mizo (here)
It's rather simplistic: As I prefer to see/ view/feel it as it's either Up or Down rather Left or Right.

Up it feels correct- natural or Down it feels incorrect- unnatural.

I would say that everything useful must be simple - but simple does not mean easy to do.

When things seem complex, it is usually because we are asking the wrong question. If/when we can ask the right question, the answer is almost always clear, quick and simple (yes or no, do or don't).

The real difficulty (if we can reach the proper frame of mind) is not in knowing what is wrong - because evil is probably more obvious now then ever, as the gloves have come-off - but in actually doing the right things.