If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.