Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” —A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Every leftist cause is founded on empathy. The quintessential leftist, no matter how much blood eventually spatters his hands, starts off by caring a great deal about other people. His heart bleeds for the oppressed, the workers and the peasants, for racial and sexual minorities, and for all the oppressed peoples of the world. The ideological fashions may change but the story is always told the same way. Somewhere there is an oppressed group to be liberated. And he, she or they is the one to fight for their liberation. Along the way that exquisite sensitivity which may lead an upper class Ivy Leaguer to learn all about the customs and suffering of black transgender men in Detroit or Hamas terrorists in Gaza congeals into an equal insensitivity for the suffering of his targets. And then people die. Sometimes it’s those he considers the oppressed or the