Great post, thank you. Hopefully more leftists will read things like this and think about what “leftwing” really stands for. As a former leftist I can attest that a lot of brainwshing is involved in subscribing to that belief system.
David Horowitz was a hard-core leftist until after the fall of Vietnam and then Cambodia.
The left had shrilly demanded for years that America abandon South Vietnam and allow “the heroic People’s Republic” to take over.
And when America finally caved in to the pressure of the left (both Republicans AND Democrats) and pulled out, that same “heroic People’s Republican along with Pol Pot in Cambodia moved in and wiped out millions of people.
David Horowitz was “converted” to conservatism when he saw his fellow leftists just shrug their shoulders and walk away from all the human carnage and misery their agenda had caused.
In other words, Horowitz still had the moral capability to consider the consequences of his views and realize how wrong he’d been.
Most liberals seem to lack such a compass.
I’m glad you were like David Horowitz.
Your “brainwashing” statement reminds me of something hilarious:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/michelle-obama-named-maxi_n_203448.html
Michelle Obama has been named to “Maxim’s 100 hottest women in the world” list.
Michelle Obama is a vast distance away from being a truly beautiful woman. About the only way she would be “hot” is if someone set her on fire. Yet the left is compelled to view her as such, in “Emperor’s new clothes” fashion.
It’s like liberalism is a disease that rots the very visual cortex, such as one is only allowed to see the “party line.”