POLITICS FROM THE NECK DOWN

Some weeks ago, I observed how poor we liberals and progressives are at dealing with human irrationality. I further observed that fascists of any kind live and die by irrationality. They’ll only deal with facts convenient to their bunk lines.
I now suggest that a, perhaps the, line of separation between the democratic left and what might be called the alt-left is in their respective attitudes toward human irrationality. The alt-left is rare now, much weaker than it was when I was in college, but it does still barely exist. We of the democratic left tend to treat irrational human nature as either one’s own concern or, sometimes, as an inconvenience or weakness which needs transcending.
The alt-left seems to me to have declared war on human irrationality, without realizing that 1) in believing that they’ve declared war on human irrationality, they have actually living by it and 2) the result of such ‘wars’ on human nature from the neck down tend to be very bloody indeed and 3) there is no going ‘back to the Garden’ and attempts to do so result only in bloodshed and more bloodshed. Neither alt-side grasps that last.
If we can gauge someone’s politics by how they deal with human nature from the neck down, it is still also true that the political spectrum is a globe with a democratic Prime Meridian on one side of it with the democratic left and democratic right on either side. On the other side of the globe is the Autocracy Date Line with the alts back to back along it.
The alt-right is today’s great danger to democracy as we all know. They’re the ones who seek to grab their target followers…