Why Lefties and Islamists Believe the Way They Do.

The source of all problems is the real Termptation: to reduce life to a single faith and diminish humans into obedient followers of a Great Leader.

Christopher Chantrill | September 1, 2026

What is communism? asks Krzysztof Szczawinski on X. No, it’s not the “bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union.” No, it’s not “a discredited economic theory”.

[Instead, it’s] a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper -- a civilizational war against truth itself[.]

[Instead, it’s] a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper -- a civilizational war against truth itself[.]

Then he goes on to give us two words that the Poles invented to describe life under communism:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] -- a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood[.]

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] -- a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood[.]

Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] -- a deep, performative hypocrisy[.]

Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] -- a deep, performative hypocrisy[.]

I’m sure he’s right. Only I believe that all politics amounts to a Big Lie, and utterly irradiated with hypocrisy.

But wait. Here is Hussein Aboubakr Mansour telling us “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis” or “How the myth of crisis........

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