One can't break it down better than this.
Posted on 05/22/2005 7:50:09 AM PDT by hipaatwo
I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity - Keith Thompson Sunday, May 22, 2005
Nightfall, Jan. 30. 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.
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One can't break it down better than this.
I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.
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I left some time after 9-11. I was studying Politics at University then read Machiavelli's "The Prince". It made me realise just because we are left wing idealists that our enemies will look favourably on us. They will see weakness and take advantage.
He's from San Francisco, and he's leaving his brothers behind.
I left some time after 9-11
Same here. I still haven't changed my voter registration. That's next. And I'm faxing a copy of the change to Harry Reid.
Wow. I'm saving this quote for future use.
I may have to reassess my opinion if the left continues with their idiocy.
How fortunate you were able to see this. One finds it hard to believe that given history, all cannot come to the conclusion you have.
I wonder how old Mr. Thompson is--I'm guessing he is older and, hence, can still remember a Democrat party with principles.
Well don't any of you "rebels" expect a hearty welcome from normal red-staters. We don't like persons who sprinkle their writing with too many "I's" and who write with a lisp.
America's "peace movers" aren't about America or peace. They are about socialism.
I'd like to see millions more of these "Zel Miller Wanna-Bes." I would personally read each and every opus they publish. :)
That could actually be enlarged to read "They hate George W. Bush more than they love _______________." Their hatred for Bush is their defining passion.
But to be fair, an equal hatred for Bill Clinton defined many on the Right for eight long years.
Yes, having gone to the full article, I see he is probably a man of about 50. Doesn't say much for him tho' that he chose not to face what was happening with the Dems for so long...
Happened to me, courtesy of the Gipper, or maybe a little earlier when I saw how stupid and inept Jimmah Cahtah was.
The democratic party has principles, they have always had principles, for over a century they have been the party that has advanced socialism and communism in this country.
I wonder if it hurts of if you feel all dirty after doing so?
We need more like him. A LOT more like him.
Written with the clarity and intensity of the convert. Like Horowitz, Kirkpatrick, Whittaker Chambers and many others, the converts often become the most eloquent and most militant Conservatives, because they have a grasp of the dark side that those of us who were genetically right wing can see but have never actually felt. Wish this guy well; he's going to be disowned by all his old friends.
Our Atlanta relatives told my father not to vote for Jimmah - said he was a nitwit - Dad did it anyway, last demonrat he voted for. Ford was my first presidential election vote.
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