I’m going to skip to the end with this article and its epic knock down of the far-left. It’s about a Salon written by Natasha Lennard:

Quote of the Day: Salon Slams Russell Brand and Proves Why the Far-Left Is a Joke
By Chez Pazienza * October 25,2013

Now, I’m not sure I need to point out the obvious but just in case: Lennard, and the other writers she quotes, have such a problem with cheeky comedian Russell Brand’s admission that he’s a sexual being and can be swayed by someone with good looks that they’re willing to pen lengthy, self-important screeds lamenting that fact and arguing that it costs him his ability to be taken seriously. To paraphrase the great philosopher Dean Vernon Wormer, smug, joyless, and intransigent is no way to go through life. It’s certainly not a way to impact the people who live outside of your little bubble of true believers — the people, by the way, that you need on your side to make a political movement successful.

Maybe to Lennard’s credit, she sticks to her guns and insists that the reason she refused to rally around Julian Assange and Rand Paul was precisely because she feels that while they may be right, in her view, on one or two topics she happens to believe in, they’ve still exhibited sexist behavior or have taken stands that are stridently anti-women. We wrote a lot here about how many people seemed to be willing to give that kind of thing a pass, especially when it came to Rand Paul and his ridiculous drones stand, merely because they valued one particular pet issue instead of looking at the big picture. But actually, that may prove the point even further that each of the various groups that make up the far-left seems to be unable to take anything beyond its individual grievances into consideration. Natasha Lennard won’t back Rand Paul, even though she agrees with his bullshit posturing on drones, because he’s wrong on her pet issue. Guys like David Sirota, meanwhile, will support Rand Paul despite his anti-women positions because drones are his pet issue. Chaos reigns and not a damn thing actually gets accomplished for left-wing politics because nobody can imagine compromising — and if you’re not 100% on board with each group’s political charter or conform completely to its point-of-view, you get long-winded articles written about you, attacking you from your own side, in Salon.

All of this — this is why those on the far-left fail again and again and will continue to.

This is why all they can do is rant online and in the streets; comforted, I suppose, by the knowledge that their idealism remains unsullied and uncompromised; oblivious to the fact that it’s also utterly useless.

This point should also be applied to wingnuts as applicable.