Essentially the way I see it, America is quite incompetent at the diplomacy and spycraft games. These operations are better played by the former Soviet Union and by our current crop of enemies. America’s advantage is present in defections, however, given AMerica’s lure to the disillusioned spymaster that can no longer tolerate totalitarianism. We gain the benefits of spies and saboteurs without having to implement the system that created such people.

This is of course, assuming that the State Department doesn’t leak the names of potential defectors to the Soviet Union. Or to Iran.

I think that a portion of the population is always in favor of government control, and the leftists were simpatico with the Soviet Union in the 20’s, 30’s and onward. If the Soviets exploited that affinity and supported it, is that actually surprising? Many advocate that the solution to our difficulties with Iran is to destabilize the mullahcracy by pouring in support for dissident movements within Iran. You can point as well to the threat of Wahhabi jihad literature in the U.S. by Saudi Arabia as they pour in support for radical Islam here. (That last is an interesting parallel, isn’t it?)

It is easier to influence people in a free and open society, even to nefarious ends.

If you ever watched the video of Yuri the Soviet defector I posted up a few weeks ago, you would be familiar with the progress of the Left when the Soviets created them.

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Essentially I asked myself that question, Mike, and while there were a couple of psychological and other behavioral explanations, the one I settled on recently is a little more simple. In essence, the Left were created as tools by the Soviets to destabilize the West. When the Soviet Union fell, their plans fell with them. Originally they had planned on taking power after the Left had weakened the West from the inside out, and then executing the useful idiots and journalists and anyone else naive enough to believe that they would join in the creation of a perfect Utopia.

Anyways, when the Soviets went away, the Left were left without a master. So they tried to carry on their duties as best they could without guidance from their creators. This means that they automatically recognize allies in their quest to fight against the nation that they were created to fight. They are lost tools in search of a higher purpose and they regain some of that lost purpose when they ally themselves with Chavez, Syria, Iran, or the Islamic Jihad. The principles of liberty and human justice are simply surface programming designed to give the tools the correct exterior look.

The Prime Directive was always to weaken and destabilize the United States and its Constitution. Regardless of anything else, if they can see a useful tool, weapon, or ally that could help them to do so, everything else becomes secondary.

This is understandable. For what other purpose can the Left cement themselves to, given their beliefs in nihilism and their feelings of abandonment at the fall of the Soviet Empire?

The Kos folks, however, seem to be trying to achieve power on their own. Trying to become independent from their Soviet creators?

I examine, in my mind, the repression of blacks in our history, including the hangings and burnings and lynchings, and I reflect on all the honor killings of women in theocratic Islamic countries. Many of these killings are just as horrific. I look at the beatings of women by enforcers who demand they be under the constant control of designated men in their households.

It is clear to me that leftists of any sort, if they have any principled consistency in their stands, must be utterly opposed to this. Yet they are not.

What is driving this? Can it be explained entirely, and simply, by self hate? By hatred toward their own Western Civ? By hatred for their own values; and therefore they look favorably towards anything that opposes it?

Maybe neo cons and Chavez have more in common than they’d like to think…outside of soiled sheets resulting from Madonna-driven wet dreams, that is.

Apart from how Chavez’s social revolution is supposed to be aligned with neo-conism and Trotskyism, there remains the subject of why the Left often abandons their own people. If the Left wins a revolution then the first thing they do is to kill anyone that starts to disagree, regardless of what role they might have played in throwing down the previous regime. Also if they don’t win, then as with Kos and the Democrats, they will begin to attack each other over ideological purity.