Hate, American Leftist Style
In the 1970s, there was a show called “Love, American Style,” a sappy romance comedy series that reflected America’s generally positive, upbeat spirit.
Fast forward to 2025, and like virtually everything that was entertaining, fun, positive or virtuous, woke leftists have spoiled and poisoned it. If there was a modern TV show that represented the left’s message, it would be “Hate, American Leftist Style.
The Evolution of Leftist Activists
Leftists are fueled by hate, jealousy and sanctimony. There is a rage in them that is inexplicable to average Americans. They claim they are all about peace, love, inclusivity and diversity, but their actions belie their words. In fact, you will never encounter someone with as much unbridled anger as a woke leftist on a soapbox.
The question is, how did they get this way?
The answer lies in understanding the motivation of a leftist. Why do they lack any sort of common sense, and why are they hell bent on their own self-destruction? Their attitudes and interaction with the world defy instinctual self-preservation. Why would anyone support an ideology that will result in a lower quality of life for themselves and their families?
The reality is that they collectively suffer from a personality flaw so significant, it makes logic, common sense, and truth irrelevant. Their right/wrong filter has only one criterion. Does the issue provide opportunities for virtue signaling and moral superiority? If there is no opportunity to preach self-righteousness, the matter will be quickly discarded.
The history of this phenomenon can be traced to the late 1960s and early 1970s—the renaissance of the leftist activist. Starting with the civil rights movement and progressing through the environmentalist and women’s rights movements, leftist found a gold mine of issues that offered extraordinary opportunities to display their piousness and sanctimony.
What made the circumstances even better was the reality that, in each instance, there actually was an underlying gross injustice. African Americans were treated horribly for centuries. By the 1970s, large manufacturers were dumping tons of toxic chemicals into the air and water. Women were victims of job discrimination, sexual harassment and lower pay for the same production. The grievances were real.
Activists brought these issues front and center through protests, media campaigns, and, yes, violence.
But despite the irritating delivery, America listened, and reasonable people added their voices to the cause of change on these issues. By 2000, the air and water were clean, racism was universally condemned and women were assuming positions of significant authority.
The Left’s Addiction to Sanctimony and Hate
It’s hard to know exactly when it happened, but sometime during the battles for civil rights, the environment and women’s rights, something unusual happened to the activists. They became addicted to sanctimony and the hate that fueled it. At first, virtue signaling was effortless. After all, the left found villains everywhere; overweight, older executives slapping secretaries on the fanny while chomping on cigars were easy targets, and it was simple to establish juxtaposition between greedy, evil white men and the self-righteous leftists who were out to save humanity.
It’s important to recognize that in order to be truly sanctimonious, you must have an evil counterpart. As you define the contemptible behavior of your opponent, it raises up your own morally superior stature. Thus, in the eyes of everyone with an ounce of compassion, he is evil; you are good.
Woke Leftists run out of Legitimate Causes
After the turn of the century, it became much harder to find cut and dried injustices, but by now, the left was hooked on the sanctimony drug. As a result, the causes became questionable—like gay marriage, for example—and harder to sell. It was also becoming more difficult to find the evil counterpart, so necessary for manufacturing piousness.
Thus, in 2025, we find ourselves in the midst of an assault by the growing leftist movement that passionately advocates for increasingly bizarre causes. In the absence of overt racism, we now have “micro aggressions.” The environment is clean, but we’re in a warming cycle, so it must be human caused, even though there isn’t a single experiment that confirms that assertion. The question of gay rights was settled, so we moved on to chemically castrating children, who are suffering from something leftists call “gender dysphoria. This is accompanied by demands that biological men get to compete in women’s sports.”
The need for the sanctimony drug became so urgent, leftists took up the causes of open borders, defunding the police, and protecting bloated government bureaucracies and their waste, fraud and abuse. It’s not that they actually believe or care about any of this woke nonsense, but each movement, no matter how self destructive to America, serves as the raw material they need to feed their habit.
Unfortunately, every recent leftist movement was antithetical to the self-interests of the American people, which is why democrats were so soundly rejected in 2024. Simultaneously, the left ran out of legitimate villains, so they began to manufacture them. To sustain the dichotomy, the left needs to mainline sanctimony, so they conjure up outlandish and complete fake profiles of their enemies. At the top of their most hated list is President Trump, and they have whipped themselves up into a psychotic frenzy of lies and mischaracterizations manifested in explosive rants and violence.
Remember, leftist crave the feeling of superiority, and to achieve the high, they must have someone evil to compare themselves to. Someone who deserves to be hated, despised, and, if they meet the Hitler litmus test, killed.
Really, there is no rehabilitation for these people without institutional level therapy. Your best bet is to avoid them at all costs. As America continues to reject them, they will only become more enraged.
