Why doesn’t the left care about the Iranian protesters who were slaughtered by the mullahs?
One would think they would care – after all, it’s a oligarchic theocracy slaughtering people who want freedom. But no. It’s as though it never even happened:
The Left justifies its obsession with Gaza by citing casualty numbers provided by Hamas — a designated terrorist organization — while ignoring the verified slaughter in Iran. This reflects a deliberate epistemology of ignorance. When a terrorist regime like Hamas reports numbers, the Left treats them as gospel to fuel anti-Israel sentiment. When the Islamic Republic slaughters its citizens, the Left does not put the blame on the Iranian regime. Instead, it claims that there is a Western context behind the regime’s crimes — that is, that the crimes are a direct cause of “US imperialism.”
It’s not true that the Left doesn’t have guiding principles. One of the most influential is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” America and Israel are the enemy; therefore Hamas and the current Iranian regime are the friends because they share the same enemies. Iran calls the US “The Great Satan” and Israel “The Little Satan.” There really couldn’t be more of a mind-meld between the Left and the Iranian leaders than that. Everything else is secondary or lower.
The left pretends to be for “the people” – but it’s the case only if the people are on the same side of an issue as the left. If the people choose wrongly, screw the people. One example of this is the left’s constant attempts to take down the duly-elected Trump, whether through assassination or impeachment or lies. The people of Israel can be raped and murdered or even blown to bits by a nuclear weapon, and according to the left they had it coming and will have had it coming.
And so the left is able to ignore the brutal Iranian regime’s killing of its own protesters. The left is aware that, were the protesters to win their battle, the Iranian people would almost certainly be grateful to none other than the oppressor Trump and The Great Satan the US, not to mention The Little Satan Israel.
Can’t have that.
When the 1979 revolution occurred in Iran, the left in that country was very much for it. But that was mainly because the Iranian left believed they were just using the mullahs and that the clerics would take a back seat to the left in running the country. The Iraniaqn left was sadly mistaken, and thousands of them were summarily slaughtered by the mullahs whose ruthlessness they had much underestimated. But as far as I know, that disabused the Iranian leftists – the ones who remained – of their affection for the mullahs. The American left seems to have held onto that affection, and at this point the American left has taken control of the Democratic Party.
The left doesn’t care.
Except for the left, and it is a fickle caring.
A strong argument in favor of declaring those actively working for the left to be in insurrection and rebellion.
Minn. State Representative Walter Hudson (arguably Thomas Sowell’s successor) lays out in clear, unambiguous terms, the moral implications of “The Most Disturbing Part of the Trump Assassination Attempt Nobody’s Discussing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WK72njR1Zo&t=1s
This clip makes crystal clear what once was vs now.
https://x.com/AlecLace/status/2048961135882252796
@ GB: “… crystal clear what once was vs now.”
When you stop and really think about that contrast, it is a real gut punch.
We would think that with such a drastic difference in outlook over that time span, that today’s views and development would have been obvious and rejected from the get-go. But instead they seem to have crept into our world on cats feet until the cat turned into a tiger.
But as the media was being compromised, and since most of us most of the time were busy with our regular work and social lives, we did not notice until we retired or had access to observers and reporters like Neo. We just believed the indoctrinated viewpoints as valid.
Neo, thanks for the 10 minute edit grace period. Seeing your next post, I must have been reading your mind. 🙂
I wonder how many of the ‘left’ in America are actual honest to goodness (not!) leftist who understand the nature of the worlds they would, and have, created – if they had the power – and how many are just ‘go along to get along – this is the bien pensant way to think types.
All the dem voters I know – lots – are the latter.
They are the very definition of Useful Idiots.
The good news, I suppose, is that the useful idiots could turn on a dime and become supporters of conservatism if that became the ‘right’ way to think.
Sorry for the pun, couldn’t help it.
A couple of interesting columns this Sunday morning related to all this.
On the Democrats and their useful idiots:
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/05/03/its-hard-to-care-about-democrats-at-all-anymore-n2675423
And on Iran and its will to survive and wait out the US. I agree with t he article’s premise that we are still far from breaking the will of whoever is in charge in Iran. I’m becoming less convinced economic strangulation is the way to go. These people only understand death.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/have_we_broken_iran_s_will_yet.html
No enemy of the US can ever be said to have done anything wrong.