Here’s how I see the reoccurring fundamentals, categorized on leftisfutile.com, applying to the following recent article:
Arthur C. Brooks (July 25 2015). We Need Optimists. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/sunday/arthur-c-brooks-we-need-optimists.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1
MY wife, Ester, and I had just endured a difficult parent-teacher conference for one of our teenage children. It was a grades issue. The ride home was tense, until Ester broke the silence. “Think of it this way,” she said. “At least we know he’s not cheating.”
That’s an optimist. We need more optimism in America today – especially in our politics.
As long as we see our futile leadership of leftism on a daily bases your hopes for optimism will be as a fart noise. Because LEFT IS FUTILE.
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? At the personal level, optimism clearly seems superior. Psychologists find that optimists generally enjoy better physical health than pessimists, and a greater ability to cope with setbacks. Optimists are happier than pessimists, as a rule.
On the other hand, optimism is not without cost. Research shows that optimists are more likely than pessimists to keep gambling after losing money. Optimism bias can be a contributing factor in car accidents, as drivers overrate their own abilities. Playing down the probability of disaster can lead us astray in other situations where assessing risk is vital, like choosing a profession or selecting a mate.
The fundamentals that are presented here is that we need more optimism in a sea of futility from leftism’s futile foundations and system. Optimism is a servant of leftism and is as a SLAVE MORALITY for leftism. So that leftism is parasitical to optimism. But the fact is, as we purge leftism from our political minds we can grow optimism. Optimism for leftism is futile. It’s as if the writer is proclaiming that only optimism has lead to better outcomes. A little thinking on history will reveal that rebelling against INSTITUTIONALIZED FUTILITY OF EFFORT is its own form of optimism. Leftism institutionalizes the futility of effort as its leaders and associates run its REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS for their own wealth and power and then hide their greed for wealth and power behind leftism’s REDISTRUBUTION MORALITY.
Optimism and pessimism have always competed in the American character. Think of it as Horatio Alger versus the Zombie Apocalypse.
Do your zombies oppose leftism? Zombies are fundamentally futile! – like leftism. They are parasitical like leadership of leftism. If they could rise to animal farm pig status if they could find a place in this world with leftism. If they could not, they would remain outcasts to most but constituents to leaders of leftism. Does Horatio Alger oppose leftism? At first it may not seem so but because of his racism he will be made to submit. He must feel guilty for his success. “You didn’t build that! Somebody else made that happen!” He will end up serving the REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS.
In the end, both are loyal leftists.
Don’t worry. Be Happy!
On one hand, rags-to-riches confidence has always drawn entrepreneurs and immigrants to our shores and captured the popular imagination. The American attitude that all will be well often amazes our European friends – and not always in a positive way. In The New York Times in 2003, a former adviser to the president of France derisively declared that, “The United States compensates for its shortsightedness, its tendency to improvise, with an altogether biblical self-assurance in its transcendent destiny.”
INSTITUTIONALIZED FUTILITY OF EFFORT
It seems to me this Frenchman speaks of our bi-polar leadership (redistribution business versus free market). That is not the same as the American people’s belief that our effort is not futile! The truth is LEFT IS FUTILE and it’s leadership is a blight! This leftist Frenchman is political for futility – FUTILITY AS HIGH GROUND.
But at the same time, Americans have often been attracted to apocalyptic predictions. In 1988, for example, a former NASA engineer named Edgar C. Whisenant published a book titled “88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988.“ Scoff if you want; it sold millions of copies. When 1988 came and went and the end times did not materialize, Mr. Whisenant updated his prediction to 1989. And then 1993 and 1994.
Stupid mobs exist to show the EVIDENCE FOR FUTILITY and leftism uses this to war against those that disagree that LEFT IS FUTILE. Leftism is inferior leadership. This author points to the misguided and seeks to pull as many as it can to its numbers. For lefitsm, it is a numbers game. They will have you join your strength to the futile mob of leftism.
While the citizenry may vacillate, leaders generally have to select one disposition or the other. Pessimism arouses fear and anger, while optimism inspires hope. Hope can accompany fear in times of extraordinary sacrifice (such as war), but this is rare. As a practical matter, a leader must choose.
Leftism is hopeless for the masses but not its preachers. Until they bring all to ruin and are brought to justice.
Too many leaders choose leftism for their own gain. Make no mistake the REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS of leftism is big business. This mob wishes to destroy anyone that gets in the way of their gravy train. LEFT IS FUTILE.
Hope is for the strong. YOU NEED THE PIG is the opposition. Leftism is for the weak that have nothing but pessimism.
Look beneath the platitudes that every candidate recites, and you’ll find politicians on both sides. Among both liberals and conservatives, there have been true optimists – like Presidents Reagan and Clinton – who seemed to exude faith in and affection for the American people. In recent times, however, right and left have more often produced competing pessimists who insist that the country is going down the tubes, the citizens are being stepped on, and everyone ought to be taking up torches and pitchforks.
Optimism is used by leftism for its own personal gain.
However, because LEFTISM IS FUTILE and leftism fosters INSTITUTIONALIZED FUTILITY OF EFFORT, it can only be pessimistic as an ideology and leadership model. Therefore, leftism is not good enough for me… No matter the posturing of optimism.
“This is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes,” we hear year after year. If the other side wins, we can practically expect a jackbooted thug and a knock in the night. I exaggerate, but only a little. Witness the extraordinary political negativity of the past three weeks from presidential candidates on both sides.
We have presidential elections every 4 years. Do you hear about how this is the most important every year?!
Why on earth would a politician choose pessimism? Because it seems the smarter bet for connecting with a sour public. After all, the wisecracking cynic and smirking hipster are certainly more emblematic of popular culture today than the cockeyed optimist.
The leader of leftism seeking to grow his personal fortune from the REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS while INSTITUTIONALIZING THE FUTILITY OF EFFORT from his REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS of leftism will always have a hard time being optimistic. At least as far as how we see him / her by the purpose of their life’s work for futility but his/her personal gain.
And there is a tangible, growing mainstream depression about the future of the nation that seems ripe for politicians to tap into. You simply can’t find a survey or poll that doesn’t show this. For decades, for example, Gallup has asked a large sample of Americans their view of “the way things are going in our country.” Averaging each month’s results for the year 2000, 37 percent said they were dissatisfied. So far in 2015, that number is 69 percent. In 2014, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll revealed that 76 percent of Americans did not feel confident that “life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us.” This is 10 percentage points worse than the poll had ever recorded.
LEFT IS FUTILE. As leftism grows pessimism grows. Leftism is currently large and in charge! As a leftist, your life is wasted in a society that seeks to avoid futility. I want to avoid futility. I understand that LEFT IS FUTILE and therefore fundamentally inferior and so I don’t vote left!
But we are paying a steep price for our politicians’ choosing the dark side. More than half of Americans said that our last presidential election was too negative, and complaints about the destructive, ad hominem discourse that dominates Washington have become a national cliché.
Let us purge the futile ideology of leftism. LEFTISM IS THE DARK SIDE and we pay the price in the FUTILITY OF EFFORT that our leftism produces.
Furthermore, in taking the pessimism shortcut, our politicians are neglecting a major strategic advantage. Business studies identify optimism as a core trait of the most successful executives. And recently, social science has shown a big advantage for optimistic leaders. In 2013, for example, Dutch researchers published a study in The Leadership Quarterly showing that a positive, happy leader is judged to be 132 percent more effective than a dour, negative one.
Leftism is a parasite on optimism.
Selling optimism while running leftism’s REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS will be futile in the end. Any success of leftism will always end in futility. Singing “Don’t worry be happy”, to support leftism is stupid. There is no way around pessimism when leftism is running its REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS…. LEFT IS FUTILE
A positive vision requires the hard work of winning over new friends, which means going where politicians have not been invited, and enduring less-than-adoring crowds. This is much harder than telling true believers what they already believe. But voters will reward candidates who have the talent and perseverance to do this. This isn’t wishful thinking or naïveté; just look to history.
Take the case of Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of the political party that most Americans currently see as the more negative of the two. Conservatives revere Reagan, but frequently misremember why he was so phenomenally effective. It was not a result of raging against liberals or fighting against big government. Reagan’s success came from his sunny optimism.
Reagan kicked the crap out of leftism, in America and abroad. Many people know LEFT IS FUTILE. Everyone should come to grips with this truth, so that no negative word need be said! I hope one day you will join us and the world will live as one…. The futile mob won’t.
Reagan’s “Morning in America” campaign theme is an obvious example, but his optimism went much deeper, to his faith in Americans’ desire to fight for people. “Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy,” said Reagan at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit as he accepted the nomination of his party. “We have to move ahead, but we’re not going to leave anyone behind.”
My own analysis <http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062319753/the-conservative-heart> of this speech found that “people” is Reagan’s most frequently repeated word, uttered 38 times. When we add in all the specific people he is fighting for – “families,” “children,” “the needy” and so on – the number more than doubles.
Leftism turns compassion to a SLAVE MORALITY so that the existence of leftism is a blight upon the earth. Leftism always seeks to GROW THE REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS for its own power and wealth.
Reagan was not a cheerful milquetoast. He was perfectly capable of a vigorous fight – just ask the Soviets. But he studiously avoided being grim about it. He was Wordsworth’s happy warrior, “Whose high endeavors are an inward light / That makes the path before him always bright.”
Because LEFT IS FUTILE, leftism is fundamentally dark and inferior.
I was 16 years old when Reagan was first elected. If I could have voted, I certainly would not have voted for him. When I was growing up in Seattle, no one I knew could stand him. But his optimism had an effect on me. Despite all of my biases and influences, I wanted a leader with this optimistic attitude. Secretly, I was not sorry he won.
Reagan’s optimism should not be understood ideologically; it was simply about people and our potential. He possessed an unflinching belief that all people – the poor, children, the elderly – were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.
Christianity’s fundamental is that we should do all things for the glory of God. That is AVOID FUTILITY. I know there is Jesus’s statement to “depart from me because I never knew you”. Still, That is between you and Him. Paul did not stop it (your futility) as long as the cause of Christ was advanced. Be advised, LEFT IS FUTILE.
In contrast, pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. This manifests itself on the political left when we construct welfare programs that fail to boost unemployed Americans back into the work force. On the right, it shows up in strains of anti-immigrant sentiment or throw-away-the-key criminal sentencing.
Left INSTITUTIONALIZES FUTILITY OF EFFORT from its REDISTRIBUTION BUSINESS.
You sound as if you are saying the right does not want to “Let me loose for the use of leftism.”
Millions of Americans are frustrated by the environment of competing pessimisms in Washington today. Some say it is a result of the fact that the parties have never been further apart ideologically. They hark back to better times when there was more overlap between Democrats and Republicans.
I disagree. Maximum progress would come not from convergence on an unsatisfying centrism, but from a true competition of optimistic visions for a better future. Research suggests that optimists can find solutions where pessimists do not. And while competing optimists may disagree, sometimes fiercely, they don’t mistake policy differences for a holy war.
Your problem is, if your solution is leftism, we will be stuck with LEFT IS FUTILE and there is no future there.
But let’s say that competition does not occur. What happens if one side unilaterally breaks out of the current negative equilibrium? I predict it will see victory – especially if the other side doubles down on pessimism and division.
Let us know the LEFT IS FUTILE! Let us avoid this leftist mob’s futility! This person writing this does not care which way is up. He is only advising this optimism tactic. The truth is, optimism and leftism is futile.
Naturally, I might be wrong. But I would offer a political version of Pascal’s wager to a politician who is of a naturally Churchillian or Reaganite disposition: Let’s say you lose an election because you were your positive and joyful self.
Pascal’s wager is: The argument that it is in one’s own best interest to behave as if God exists, since the possibility of eternal punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise.
If you are leftist it seems you are wrong and fundamentally futile. LEFT IS FUTILE!
LEFT IS FUTILE
Pascal’s wager is stupid against this idea.
Hey, at least you weren’t cheating.
So even when LEFTISM IS FUTILE, if it posed as optimistic, it would not be cheating? This is worthless. Leftism is futile no mater how it poses. To be a leftist leader is to be an animal farm pig by posing as Santa Claus. Avoiding futility is never cheating, no mater how many say it is…. It just gets harder and more (seemingly) futile to combat, in this world!
As we purge leftism from our political minds we can grow optimism. As long as we see our futile leadership of leftism on a daily bases your hopes for optimism will be as a fart noise. Because LEFT IS FUTILE.