In the wake of last week’s Israeli elections, Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish) provides an insightful glimpse into the warped worldview of that country’s class of elite leftists with his essay: Israel’s Leftist Losers.
 
While right-thinking people of goodwill were celebrating the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, lefties everywhere were united in their disappointment ~
 

Netanyahu’s victory hit hardest in Tel Aviv where, as Haaretz, the paper of the left, reports, “Leftist, secular Tel Aviv went to sleep last night cautiously optimistic only to wake up this morning in a state of utter and absolute devastation” […]
 

Now the leftist elite (in Israel) is once again forced to come to terms with the tragedy that much of the country doesn’t want to hand over land to terrorists, live on a communal farm or turn over the country to Marc Rich’s lawyer and his American backers who make Slim-Fast and KIND bars […]
 
The left doesn’t want a country. It wants a Berkeley food co-op. It wants a city with some ugly modernist architecture. It wants a campus with courses on media studies and gender in geography. It wants an arcade where unwashed lefties can tunelessly strum John Lennon songs on their vintage guitars. It wants cafes with Russian Futurist prints on the walls. It wants to be excited about political change. Its only use for Israel was as a utopian theme park.
 
Its allegiance was not to Jewish history or democracy, but to its crackpot leftist fantasies. Now its fantasies are dead and it wants to kill Israel.

 
Note the amazing similarities to our domestic variety of progressives. Because many lefties have the luxury of not having to deal with the annoying realities of working for a living (think Hollywood and our elite ruling class) they’re free to save the world; White #BlackLivesMatter Boston Protesters Found Living with Parents in Luxury Mansions.
 
We also see them employing that trademark progressive strategy of maliciously-manufactured divisiveness ~

The left hasn’t managed to conquer Israel, but it has succeeded in dividing it. Every new group of immigrants has been indoctrinated, not with allegiance to the left (that was a lost cause early on) but with resentment of each other. The Russian Jews are told that they live badly because of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews. The Middle Eastern Jews are told that they live badly because of the Russian Jews. The Ultra-Orthodox are told that they live badly because of the Settlers. There’s plenty of overlap between these groups, but the tactic still works well enough for the left to stay in the game.
 
 
The left has no leadership. It has nothing to offer. It has no reason to exist except malice and spite […]

I’m always fascinated by what makes these people tick. Perhaps those of us on the right will never fully understand the Left, but it’s clear that their skewed view of reality is shared by progressives the world over.

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Related:

Ben Shapiro answers that perennial question – “Why do Jews vote Leftist?”
Israel’s Second Declaration of Independence