Reply #57: Why the BS and double standards?

[shira]

Pelsar,

You're assuming there is some rhyme or reason where it doesn't exist. I see all this as more a cult or mood where people are manipulated by slogans, prejudices, and emotions. These are fanatic cultists - or true believers - who do not even have an ideology. If they had an ideology, there would be some sort of logical consistency to it.

It's not "Left" even if they think it is.

It's people telling themselves lots of lies, and pushing themselves to believe them. Probably because it makes them feel good.

ETA...

If this was really about the "Left" or some logical and consistent ideology, where's all the talk about the labor exploitation and near-slavery conditions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, etc? These countries own billions of dollars worth of assets in Western countries, including real estate, industrial manufacturing concerns, bonds (including US T-bonds), etc. They are major capitalists and by Lenin’s definition of imperialism (finance capitalism) they are also imperialists.

Not a word.

And shall we get into all the double-standards employed in I/P? How much further extreme 'Right' all Israel's neighbors are in the ME? Come on. There's nothing logically consistent in the worldview of a true-believing cultist.