There was a time when the left had respectability. Some of the figures, like John F. Kennedy, expressed a vision of hope, of unity, and of a shared national purpose. The left represented the working class.

For instance, the Welsh miners illustrated qualities of stamina, diligence, and involvement in community. It was a community that believed in causes greater than themselves and fought for genuine interventions that had concrete impacts on the lives of everyday people. The old left finally felt a grounded responsibility toward those people they professed to represent. It was determined not to avoid hard conversations but ready to be convinced. Change could only come about through discourse; the dissenting voice had to be heard and taken note of.

This is exactly how the present-day left unrecognizably transgresses what the old left stood for: real discourse and concrete progress has been replaced with something so empty and matrix moralistic as to be brittle and self-defeating.

The Death Cult: Christianity Without Christ

Most of today’s left, however, has morphed into something far more sinister—a sort of death cult. It’s like Christianity without Christ, focused solely on the body (the corpus) but devoid of the spirit. Because without the Resurrection, without transcendence, Christianity becomes simply about death. The core of the faith—Christ’s victory over death—is the heart, where meaning and, with it, renewal and hope lie. If there is no resurrection, it all devolves into empty ritual around suffering and decay.

God is Dead