Humility is better than self-loathing, but they never seem to have that. They seem to compensate for loathing themselves by loathing others more. By any sensible definition of that stupid term, Socialism is a hate crime.

One of the best arguments against the pessimism of the Left — their bizarre, inhuman – nay anti-human, notion that, left unregulated, we would fall savagely upon each other like wild beasts — used to be to ask how the English language came about. No one invented it. No one has a patent on it. Neither legislators nor lawyers were involved in crafting or improving it. No one (yet) regulates it at all (although Canadian liberals currently have plans to force the use of made-up pronouns on us to make a political point).

Despite this deplorable lack of intervention by our wise and loving state it is a highly functional piece of human technology; the richest, largest language that the world has ever known and the means by which all Anglosphere laws and regulations (and all ideas — including their own crazed and oppressive ones) are developed, expressed and opposed.

You are right. We humans are far better than the Left believes. When I was a transaction lawyer I used to tell my clients that the surprising things the other party wanted to prohibit us from doing in our contracts were a good indication of the lines upon which their own thinking ran. Sometimes it revealed a wickedness so profound that it was better to find another deal! The Left regarding humans as savage mutual predators is a similarly good predictor of how they will use the absolute state power they constantly advocate — ostensibly to protect us from ourselves.