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The Fall of My Leftist House of Mirrors
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 9 SEPTEMBER 2005 | Michael Lopez-Calderon

Posted on 09/09/2005 1:33:07 AM PDT by rdb3

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1 posted on 09/09/2005 1:33:10 AM PDT by rdb3
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2 posted on 09/09/2005 1:37:45 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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Predicting the demise of #2, and wondering if we should welcome back the prodigal son, or berate him for taking so long.
3 posted on 09/09/2005 1:43:39 AM PDT by konaice
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What?


4 posted on 09/09/2005 1:45:20 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi (Is Roberts really a conservative?)
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bttt


5 posted on 09/09/2005 1:47:13 AM PDT by CGVet58 (God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
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"A Utopian scheme will always lead to failure and that failure feeds a pernicious defeatism and cynicism that leads one to blame everything except the obvious source of the defeat."

Like a trendy fashion, blame has been quite focused..."It's Bush's fault!"

6 posted on 09/09/2005 1:52:48 AM PDT by endthematrix ("an ominous vacancy"...I mean, JOHN ROBERTS now fills this space!)
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That is so funny!!


7 posted on 09/09/2005 1:53:48 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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"The Islamist-Nazi religious fanatics attacked the greatest city on earth, one of the most important physical beacons of Enlightenment liberal democracy, second only to the U.S. Constitution. And the best the Left could offer in protest was a flatulent sound so meek that it was drowned out by a single ant’s footsteps. "

Any questions, class?

(Mr. Lopez-Calderon may not be "pulling a Whittaker Chambers," but Whittaker Chambers would be proud of him anyway.)

8 posted on 09/09/2005 2:01:06 AM PDT by leadpenny
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Thats not far of, I read a recent FrontPage article about how the radical left, including Sheehan, gets many supporters from among the David Dukes, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations and even Stormfront. They all use the same anti-Bush, anti-jew and anti-freedom rhetoric after all.


9 posted on 09/09/2005 2:04:23 AM PDT by GeronL (Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
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To: rdb3

Outstanding read. Thanks for posting it.

This guy is from my generation. At the point he turned left, I turned right. It is interesting to me that we meet again here in the waning days of a free American republic. He is one of the people who helped push us to the edge of totalitarian socialism. Maybe others like him will wake up before it is too late. Welcome back, Michael.


11 posted on 09/09/2005 3:15:24 AM PDT by NCSteve
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Good post, I am late now but it was worth it.


12 posted on 09/09/2005 3:21:03 AM PDT by mmercier (and my desire has flown like a dream)
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This is a very startling article, wonderful to read, and thank you for posting it, rdb3.

The author and I share similar ages and experiences. Perhaps I was not a liberal, and because I witnessed all these same things WHILE I was living in the heartland of liberalism: The San Francisco Bay Area. This experience is what belied, to me, the teachings of the left. Those espousing the leftist agenda were very mean, self-absorbed people. As far back as the early 70s? Disagree or dare to discuss the left agenda, with a true believer? They'd come at you so fast with verbal abuse, shaming stick, and they'd tell all their friends about YOU. They showed me that civil rights and civility was not at all what they wanted.

As young as I was, this is what showed me clearly, these people were not about peace, discourse, open minds, dialogue, and the like.

I'm glad the author has seen the light -- it really is so much more liberating to be on this side of the political aisle, than the liberal side.

On this side of the aisle, you can actually stand FOR something. It's a far more honorable life, than the alternative.

13 posted on 09/09/2005 3:46:11 AM PDT by Alia
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As far back as the early 70s?

As far back as the late 50s/early 60s. Definitely in the late 60s. Probably even before that. Since it is an ideology of hate, they make no distinction and turn on each other if they cannot successfully bring down their enemy du jour.

The Shun has always been an internal tactic on the Left. Especially in the upper levels of cadre, where everyone is vying for distinctions of ideological purity.

I always found it amusing that people who made a fetish of anti-competition were rabidly competitive within their own ranks.
14 posted on 09/09/2005 4:30:57 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
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AH how nice to see the TRUTH in black and white.


15 posted on 09/09/2005 4:35:03 AM PDT by marty60
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I knew about the left before I lived among them. Living among them, I got to study them very closely.

As far back as the late 50s/early 60s. Definitely in the late 60s. Probably even before that. Since it is an ideology of hate, they make no distinction and turn on each other if they cannot successfully bring down their enemy du jour.

The Shun has always been an internal tactic on the Left. Especially in the upper levels of cadre, where everyone is vying for distinctions of ideological purity.

I always found it amusing that people who made a fetish of anti-competition were rabidly competitive within their own ranks.

Yep, lol. You know them well.

I just gotta share with you this pic, from NRO "The Buzz" in re the lefty protest in re Katrina. Have any comments? lol


16 posted on 09/09/2005 4:37:37 AM PDT by Alia
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Ah, the miseducation congregation.


17 posted on 09/09/2005 4:43:44 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Stop the looting! The IRS hates competition.)
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To: Alia
Just my first thought when I saw this on TV:

Gotta hand it to them for organization, slickness and the money to get those professionally printed signs out there to their professional protestors so quickly.

I always say that having known them intimately, I came to loathe them completely. They will abandon this tack the moment anything else even slightly less lame presents itself.
18 posted on 09/09/2005 4:46:39 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
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Truly breathless in its irony, no? Delicious in its photoframe. The photo says all anyone really needs to see about the left, and what the left obviously upholds. Shame == the root of Political Correctness.

My, my.. and for all these years, they've fought against a religious "shaming stick". lol.

It's come around.

Karma is hitting the left, and they don't even realize it. They can stare at that picture for hours on end, and still not.. see.

19 posted on 09/09/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT by Alia
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lol.

I always say that having known them intimately, I came to loathe them completely. They will abandon this tack the moment anything else even slightly less lame presents itself.

So, uh, are you suggesting that despite how well planned, well financed they are -- they were still caught running on the short-side?

Hey! I remember when Harvey Milk and Mayor Mascone were shot in SF. The leftist brigades were out in the streets of the Financial district nearly immediately with silk screened" arm bands in black.

I always wondered -- how they knew. In advance. Or are they really just that "gifted" in mass production means on the fly. For "oppressed people" who assert to be anti-capitalist, anti-corporation -- I always remember how quick the left had their armbands out on the streets so quickly. My, my.

Maybe they had "iron-on" templates (long before it was available by and for mass means). That's it! From Women with Clothes Lines, they had Women With Irons! Must be it, no?

Note of interest: Those armbands were BEFORE the days of the colored ribbons (pink, aids, etc.)

20 posted on 09/09/2005 4:56:13 AM PDT by Alia
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