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Leaving the left
Yours truly “left the left” a long time ago … just how many more out there share the views of this man, who is also leaving the left?
Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I’m separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.
I’m leaving the left — more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.
I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives — people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere — reciting all the ways Iraq’s democratic experiment might yet implode.
My estrangement hasn’t happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it’s all too obvious. Leading voices in America’s “peace” movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.
Like many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left’s mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror.
Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. Every anomaly that didn’t fit my perceptual set is suddenly back, all the more glaring for so long ignored. The insistent inner voice I learned to suppress now has my rapt attention. “Something strange — something approaching pathological — something entirely of its own making — has the left in its grip,” the voice whispers. “How did this happen?” The Iraqi election is my tipping point. The time has come to walk in a different direction — just as I did many years before.
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There’s something sad about seeing so many people feeling so abandoned by the runaway Left.
What a gem of an article!
Welcome to my world, Sister! We’ve been waiting for you! You are following in the footsteps of others who have realized, as you did, that they had been abandoned by the party that they always considered “theirs”. Others before you included many ordinary people, but also quite a few famous ones — ones like Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston in an earlier generation and Zell Miller in very recent times. Some were called “Reagan Democrats” when they left the party that had abandoned them. Others tried becoming “Independents” or “Libertarians” or various other alternatives — but they all felt abandoned by a party and an ideology that had shifted like so much wet sand to the point that it no longer matched their expectations or their needs. It’s hard to understand how a once-proud, vital, “mainstream” movement could have been hijacked by a few extreme ideologues and redirected to a place where many could no longer feel included — but that is what has happened to the left in today’s political arena. Those of us who have been further to the right for some time now welcome all refugees from the tyranny of the left and invite you to join us in leading this country in a direction where we’ll all feel a lot more comfortable as the 21st century continues to unfold. We have a very “big tent” and it’s growing larger with each election cycle. We need to stand ready to extend a welcoming hand to future enlightened souls as they come to the same realization that you have expressed in this heartfelt article. It truly is a heartwarming experience to see our family growing by leaps and bounds!
J. Rob: Thanks for the link back
Cav: True. I’m a firm believer that the Republicans need the competition the Dems provide to help keep ‘em sharp and to keep the arena of ideas going. It’s not been much of a struggle these days, unless we’re talking about judges
Skye: I agree
Did you hear him on Rush yesterday?
Rob: Thank you! But I didn’t write that piece – I linked to it
Oops! My bad (that will teach me to read more carefully — including clicking on links!), but my comments still apply! I missed Rush the last couple of days, so I didn’t get a chance to hear him talking with the author — but I did just now see the transcript on his website! ANYWAY, it’s nice to see our ranks growing!
It IS nice to see the ranks growning, isn’t it? *does the happy dance
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