3 Life Lessons from Political Extremists

Lesson we should all internalize.

You’ll reap what you sow

I’ve never been a strong believer in karma or cosmic justice or anything like that. But, to some extent, it works.

I have studied countless political extremists and this is always how it plays out. The negativity they put out into the world bites them in the bud. Really badly.

The best example I’ve seen is Leon Trotsky. He may have started out as a utopian socialist. But he quickly became a monster in the USSR. He led massive propaganda campaigns against innocent people and even encouraged war crimes against civilians.

He was responsible for the suffering of millions of soviet citizens. And the ultimate irony is that the government he helped to create, assassinated him in the end.

He devoted his entire adult life to spreading communism and the Soviet union, the first self declared communist state in history, ordered him to be executed. Despite traveling to Mexico, an NKVD agent was able to murder Trotsky. It was a miserable cycle of chaos. And it caught up with him in the end.

Another example is Adolf Hitler. After Germany’s disastrous loss in the first world war, he devoted the rest of his life to creating a Nazi dictatorship.