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Robin of Berkeley:

... So the Left detests us because, to them, we're the spoil sports. We're the mean parents who break up the party and make all the children go to bed. We lecture them to mind their manners, respect their elders, and "Who do you think you are to talk to me that way?"
We expose their hair brained plots to change the world for what they really are -- castles made of sand that will vanish with the first strong wind.
We unveil everything they're hiding from, all the cold, cruel facts of life that render them helpless: that in the grand scheme of things, human beings are quite small; that none of us can or should play God; and that there are consequences for cruel or evil behavior.
And perhaps most of all, we trigger in their memory banks those excruciatingly vulnerable moments when the bubble burst, the truth broke through, and they were forced to look reality squarely in the face....

Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley

Nailed It!

This ping list is not author-specific for articles I'd like to share. Some for the perfect moral clarity, some for provocative thoughts; or simply interesting articles I'd hate to miss myself. (I don't have to agree with the author all 100% to feel the need to share an article.)

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Robin of Berkeley is one of those “treasures” - like a “Sowell” ... Thanks for listing her other articles - always a great read.

“their hair brained plots”

Please, people, editing.

their hare-brained plots