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The sociopolitical vanguards of the left seem to harbor a serious envy-crush thing for the islamist willingness and capacity to remorselessly smash opposition...But it never seems to dawn on them that the admiration is never genuinely mutual beyond mere utility as leverage.

At the root it appears that the latest nomenclatura really believes that they (the anointed) will ultimately prevail against the islamists after their domestic political enemies have been defeated and the last truly independent thinkers are harried into the servitude of dependence. Utopia...Hurrah!

Which begs the question; what is it in the core pathos of the collectivist left constituent that causes them to reflexively support movements whose first act upon seizing power has [historically] been to promptly line its ideological foot-soldiers against various sundry walls at the first opportunity?

I can't even begin to imagine the all-encompassing animus that that level of cognitive dissonance must engender, but what I can see bubbling up through the widening cracks in what had been the thin veneer of their composure is just horrible and stunning to behold.

I mean is the self-delusion of the asses a manifestation of spiritual poverty or the mere rot of boredom that compels the combustible collective them to spray gasoline on everything while watching the world burn in the firestorms of hope and change for hope and changes sake?
...Or is it some other non-specific nihilistic flaw that causes them to periodically drag everything that works into the ash-heap of their latest great idea?

I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
-- Thomas Jefferson

It never goes away. They just change the slogans and the flags.

@Monkeyfan: I think the answer to your last two questions is "yes". I've stopped trying to figure out why leftists have such a huge man-crush on Islamism, I just accept that they do, like the sun rising in the east every morning. That they will be the first ones killed by their erstwhile extremist Muslim allies probably never enters their crocodilian brains. This, despite there being a perfectly serviceable historical precedent in what happened to the leftist reformers who helped Khomeini seize power from the Shah in Iran. As soon as the beards had taken over the security agencies, the leftists began to get hauled off to the gallows and firing squad. But the leftists also manage to ignore what happened during 70+ years of communism, so I guess it isn't surprising that they'd ignore Islamism's true nature as well.