Leaving the left

SFC ^ | Sunday, May 22, 2005 | Keith Thompson

[the anti-liberal]

Leaving the left
I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity

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.

[Archon of the East]

I am certainly no expert, but post modern philosophy follows the idea that there is no absolute, truth no all encompasing principles. Words mean what the user wants them to mean. We arived here by way of modern philosophy which generally desribes a possible truth but that truth is not defined by God or a higher power but by man's ability to reason and thus defined by man. Try these links I have found very useful. Let me know what you think of them.

http://www.summit.org/resource/essay/show_essay.php?essay_id=148

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1407552/posts

[nutmeg]

"Music to my ears" ping! Rush reading this on air now...

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[nutmeg]

...I have come to believe, and gladly join with others who have discovered for themselves, that the single most important thing a genuinely liberal person can do now is walk away from the house the left has built.

Love it! Thanks so much for posting this article on FR.

[nutmeg]

Fantastic opus! Rush just read this on air...

[nutmeg]

Here's the opus Rush just read on air

[Mr.Atos]

That's my story... Fall of 1992.

[nutmeg]

Keith Thompson (author of this opus) on air with Rush now!

[ssaftler]

I read this column in yesterday's Chronicle, and I was dumbstruck that a left-wing rag like that would actually publish such a well thought out, devastating commentary tearing limb-by-limb the once great Democratic party.

Can't wait to see what the whining Letters to the Editor have to say!

[Matchett-PI]

I just posted it in my thread a minute ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408763/posts?page=50#50

[nutmeg]

Thanks!

[ariamne]

I identify completely with the writer's disgust. On September 12, 2001, the staff of the liberal non-profit at which I was then employed gathered round to talk about our "feelings" about the attack on our country and fellow citizens. I watched and listened in stunned amazement as people damned US foreign policy, Israel and George Bush.

One lone secretary peeped up that the attack should have brought us together as Americans and make us more patriotic and she was CLOBBERED by the rest of the staff. I was too stunned and confused to speak up then, but I am making up for lost time now.

Good article; it mirrored my feelings of disgust for the voices of the left exactly. The left will continue to implode on its own bile and hatred, will continue to dance a bloody victory jig on the graves of brave American soldiers and embrace terrorist to their collective bosoms.

And decent Americans, including liberals with any conscience, will turn away in disgust.

[MikeHu]

"Hypocrites" is too kind a word to call them -- and in fact, it is a label of distinction for them because they think they're fooling everyone into thinking they're benevolent. They're actually quite malicious and have no good intentions -- which is the minimum requirement to be a hypocrite. This present generation of "liberals" make no pretense -- and their constituencies demand none because they lack the ability to discriminate a difference.

Nope, these anti-social protesters just show up where their media corporals tell them to -- gesticulating monkeylike so they can be the lead on the six o'clock news.

[Peach]

I was just coming home in the car and got to hear him; he was great. I wish Rush had held him over the commercial break because I'd have liked to hear more about how his essay was received. It sounds like a lot of leftists agree with him.

[CedarDave]

Here it is... Rush reading this on air now. Music to my ears!

Thanks!

[the anti-liberal]

and got to hear him; he was great.

I missed him- can you relate what he said?

[MikeHu]

You what?

Liberty requires vigilance 24/7

[Matchett-PI]

You're welcome!

[Sam Cree]

"You what? Liberty requires vigilance 24/7

What post of mine are you replying to?

[MikeHu]

You've probably turned into one of those Pod People while you were asleep.

[Peach]

He said that some leftists in the Bay area have called him and e-mailed him to say that his essay exactly captured how they feel about the Democratic party.

He got a few e-mails and phone calls from what he calls the Psychiatric Wing of the party who didn't agree with him.

Those who did agree with him said that they still don't like Bush or some of his policies, but they can't abide anymore what's going on in the Democratic party.