An Open Letter to Liberals

The American Thinker ^ | July 31, 2009 | Robin of Berkeley

[Scanian]

Hello, my name is Robin of Berkeley and I write for American Thinker. I was left but last year turned right, and, if you'd like to know more, you can read Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Robin (But Were Afraid to Ask) by clicking on my byline.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter which I've been meaning to pen for a while. I just had a provocative conversation with my editor extraordinaire at AT which has prompted this piece.

He informed me that I'm getting more attention from liberals, though not the venerating kind. Luckily, he spares me the real ugly missives (the main reason, by the way, that I don't post my email address; opening e mails that read, "Hi, I'm looking forward to your tribe being exterminated," would not make my day. I can barely stand the ones that say, "Hello, my name is Niger, and you have just inherited big money from Ethiopia.")

But in this strange new world, more hate mail is a compliment. It means I'm generating more readership; therefore my Homeland Security risk level has gone up from green to orange. I'm no longer just an aging, working stiff in Berkeley, but I'm considered a planetary threat on the level of carbon dioxide.

Most of the nastygrams are in the form of trolls. The concept of "trolling" is news to me, as is everything these days. I have to admit that the idea of people cyberspying and then posting insults is a bit creepy.

But more than this: growing up I loved trolls. Adored them

[Impy]

“, if you’d like to know more, you can read Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Robin (But Were Afraid to Ask) by clicking on my byline.”

All that does is show her article archive.

[BullDog108]

She was on Michael Savage the other day. Great gal!!!

[Gargantua]

Wow. I finally find a person still living who thinks as deeply (and writes nearly as well) as I do...

Just kidding. She does scratch the surface, though, and that is worthy of note. Will the wonders never cease; another successful escapee from America's blighted, government-ruin public schooling system.

While she apparently has had the questionable advantage of temporary occupancy in (college) the halls of advanced academia, we'll not hold that against her. She's on the road to recovery (in Bekeley, no less), and that's what counts.

;-/

[BullDog108]

From the conversation with Michael Savage the other day, it sounded like she was a therapist, not a student at Cal. Her description her family and the Viet Nam war date her as a little old for a student...

[Gargantua]

Indeed. To be a therapist (I think she used the term 'psychoanalyst" or some such), one must receive an education beyond public school grades 1-12, hence my comment on her higher learning.

Deductive ratiocination at its finest. :-)

;-/

[BullDog108]

Ooooops. I misread your first comment to say that she was a current student.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a Cal Alumnis. Hope you don't hold that against me ... ;^)

[bigjoesaddle]

Read her article “Desperately Seeking (Conservative) People “, it tells her story. Very interesting lady.

[bigjoesaddle]

This is one neat lady! Read “How to Deprogram a Liberal in One Year Or Less”, it’s all about her own de-programing. I too was Liberal until age 27, (42 now). My nephew went to Berkley, what a mess he is.

Let’s invite her to be a FReeper! Looks like she does not include her email (she explains why in this article). Lets write American Thinker to forward to her invitations to become one of us.

[JimRed]

Bump

[Scanian]

Sounds like a winner...she has definitely learned how to use her gray matter.

[bigjoesaddle]

read everything of hers on AT. great!

[Billthedrill]

I don't think Robin has realized the depth to which her erstwhile compatriots regard politics as class warfare in a literal sense. If conditions under which they can kill without consequences happen to materialize, they will, and they will kill apostates first. That isn't a prediction, it's a description of history - the first bullets in the Soviet Union were always reserved for "counter-revolutionaries," a word whose definition was conveniently plastic for the shooters, not so conveniently for their targets.

The leftward drift of American liberalism has so internalized the concept of revolutionary violence that its mainstream proponents scarcely recognize their political opponents as human beings anymore. Once enough blame has been manufactured, enough hatred directed toward the demonization of those opponents the step from that to fully sanctioned, even celebrated, violence, is a small one. Even now the persistent accusation of violence on the part of the right serves to camouflage the clear intention of the left to employ it - shall we count the number of times Timothy McVeigh has been invoked over the last six months while the notorious Black Panther poll intimidation has been given formal absolution by the administration that benefited from it?

Robin had better watch herself, and I'm not joking. That cheery business of meeting on common ground that she quoted flies in the face of history. You don't leave the left without consequence, and if she doesn't believe that she probably ought to have a word or two with another Bay Area veteran of the left named David Horowitz.