On Power

When those who value power say "from each according to their ability", they mean it, their lives depend on it.  They don't care if you suffer while alive or die as long as you submit to their will.

For them power over others is the source of their sustenance.  The state of Liberty, where we deal with each other on the basis of consent, is toxic to them.

For them: Power is life.  Freedom is death.  Barbarians are funny that way.  In my view the basic function of liberal (and specifically Marxist) doctrine is to deny reality.

The specific fact of reality that absolutely must be denied under all circumstances is that each of us as human beings has right to say no.  No to the demand for obedience.  No to the demand for material support. And no to the demand for absolute power over our lives.

Liberals, and the left in general, are parasites on human society.  Without the power to compel others to materially support them the members of the left would be compelled either to become rational and productive people or to literally die off.  And it's not enough for the Left, especially their leaders, to be materially supported.  To the left, every word of dissent or refusal is in practical effect a sentence of death for each of them.  It's no surprise that they're hostile to actual thought based on actual facts.

To the left, every word of dissent or refusal is a sentence of death.  And every pistol and rifle in the hands of a private citizen is a weapon pointed straight at their heads.  Someday, we're going to have to pull the triggers.