Obama Amnesty Provides Further Insight Into Leftist Dementia

Vox has a good post today explaining the logical consequences of Obama's refusal to enforce the law regarding immigration, such as how a future president could just as easily refuse to prosecute tax dodgers. Granted, I have a great deal of sympathy for tax dodgers, but the point is that Obama abhors them and, when asked point blank in an interview, could not grasp that he had laid a foundation to help them.

This prompted me to make a comment about the nature of leftism that I thought was worth sharing here:

True. Leftists and other barbarians often commit the fallacy of ceteris paribus, or assuming that everything else will remain equal after they've "fixed" whatever they're obsessing over at the moment.

They want to invite foreigners into this country, but never consider that too many will transform the country rather than the foreigners. They want to re-distribute wealth to those in need, but never consider that this will discourage wealth creation and encourage more poverty. They want federal courts to nullify state and local laws they dislike, but never consider that this empowers federal courts to do a host of other things they hate.

The essence of leftism is juvenilism and magical thinking. What's worse, leftists rarely learn from failure but rather cry out that they need even more power to fix everything. 

Think about this in any number of other contexts, and you know it's true. Leftists lack the maturity to grasp reality and conform their actions to it, so they demand that reality change -- usually through brute force, but just as often through the corruption of language (e.g., "racism," "misogyny," "marriage," "family," "equality," ad nauseam).