Why leftists ultimately fail

The Left has many tactical victories, but their ideology ultimately fails.  Unfortunately, much suffering, deprivation, death and loss of freedom normally occurs before the failure

Thomas Sowell - The Mindset of the Left

"The fundamental problem of the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong."
Thomas Sowell

This is fundamental to understanding the left. The Left, in all its forms (Marxism, communism, socialism, the modern Democratic Party) is at its heart a Utopian cult. With all the zealotry of religious fanatics, the left believes that all humans are equal and, therefore all outcomes must be equal, even if it takes the full force and weight of the government to bring about equality. It is this unwillingness to understand or acknowledge that human beings are all different that has driven the left to cause so much destruction, death and despair over the last 150 years.

The Roman Republic didn't end because Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his legion. It ended because that illegal act was not effectively resisted and led to another usurpation and then another and then another over a period of years. It was the accumulation of many such infringements that brought the inexorable decline of freedom and set the stage for Rome's age of tyrants.

If you study history you will find that human behavior has not changed greatly over the ages. Even though we are more technologically advanced and somewhat more socially advanced, human beings are still driven by the same emotions and desires. Things have not changed that much in two thousand years. Therefore it is important to learn from history. By knowing what has happened before we can see the triumphs and tragedies of history repeated in the modern age. We can avoid the tragedies, but to do that we have to recognize the signs. Unfortunately, those signs are plentiful in today's government.