Grievance Games

Since the French Revolution, left-wing politics have been essentially about revenge.

Since the French Revolution, left-wing politics have been essentially about revenge. First, divide based on fiction/exaggeration, then uses that envy/hate/victimhood as an excuse to "get them back". And if you can't defend your actions, just accuse the other side of doing it to distract, confuse, or pretend that it's justified.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-11-29

Since the French Revolution, leftwing politics have been essentially about revenge, including in Great Britain with the founding of the Labour Party in 1900, an event recently characterized by the Daily Telegraph as an act of vengeance.

Then, leftist vengeance meant class vengeance. While it remains so to some degree, it has lately been greatly expanded, complicated and fortified by identity politics, in which class resentments are compounded and confused by innumerable others hitherto unimagined — and some, indeed, almost unimaginable.

Since the 1960s, the American left (inspired and aided by the agents of leftism abroad) has been searching for any fundamental, essential constitutional weakness in American society and the American polity that they could develop as a fatal flaw by exaggerating and exploiting it.

The inventors of the 1619 Project thought they had discovered it in slavery. Ignore that slavery had been abolished a century and a half before, and relations between blacks and whites in the United States were improving drastically — obviously so. Or that many other countries had histories of economic inequality and slavery, including European and American ones; neither was unique to the United States.

Democrats had a brainstorm and decided it was repressive identity politics. As they were also the institutional propagandists on behalf of multiculturalism and mass global immigration, destructive inspiration came naturally to them here.

Revenge politics is the politics of a bitter, irrational, infantile, implacable, rage, as the Democratic Party has moved rapidly and resolutely leftward over the past six or seven years. They prey apon human nature (or at least the mentally weak and bitter), with its readiness to believe that people who differ from you also hate you, are directly responsible for your problems, and against whom consequently, you should avenge yourself.

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Historically on the wrong side of almost every issue, while lectured the public on their moral superiority.

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