The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.
I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.
Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.