Leftism as religion

For nonreligious people, the preference is to view things as acceptable until and unless they must be forbidden, to err on the side of freedom. For the evangelical left, however, the world is defined by what is acceptable, and everything outside this acceptability is wrong and bad. The scales are tipped heavily against anything outside their norms.

Against the more insane forms of subjectivism in modern times there have been various reactions. First, a half-way compromise philosophy, the doctrine of liberalism, which attempted to assign the respective spheres of government and the individual. This begins, in its modern form, with Locke, who is as much opposed to “enthusiasm”—the individualism

It is because leftism is so grounded in

New meanings may emerge, but past references will always be lingering in the background. Yet this desire to decree universal meaning is, again, a testament to the evangelical left’s demand to maintain total control of discourse and even thought.