Probably the most interesting analysis download i m not there dvd of the psychology of the American left I have read in a long time:
The rejection of the universal moral law leads one to fill the resulting inner vacuum with false moral absolutes. This is the source of the weird moral fetishes of liberals. These weird fetishes result in the banning of Christmas and turning tolerance and privacy into moral absolutes that result in morally insane public policies. When tolerance is an absolute, ideas of good and evil, and right and wrong, are rejected. When privacy becomes an absolute, evil is shielded, and law enforcement and the war on terror become impossible.
Many lose their sense of humanity because of the delusion of self-invention and the trap of determinism. This makes it difficult to adhere to the universal moral law. The likely result is moral insanity. The cure for the delusions of self-creation and determinism is a theological view of man that differentiates between the self that knows and the physical body.
On the bright side, the morally-insane postmodern liberal movement no longer always gets its way. As they get progressively crazier, their maneuvers become purely partisan tactics without a shred of principle or logic. This, my friends, makes them politically weak.
Now how accurate is that?
The only problem I might have is that the cultural left in America really isn’t all that radical compared to their European counterparts. This having been said, the idea of tolerance uber alles promoted by liberals/progressives (what are they calling themselves these days?) ends in little other than embracing the very worst of the practices of the French Revolution.
Great article, though you might want to print it out and read it over lunch.