American Thinker: Top Ten Reasons I Am No Longer A Leftist

American Thinker ^ | July 20, 2014 | Robert Gehl re: Dr. Danusha V. Goska

[Baynative]

I voted Republican in the last presidential election.

Below are the top ten reasons I am no longer a leftist. This is not a rigorous comparison of theories. This list is idiosyncratic, impressionistic, and intuitive. It’s an accounting of the milestones on my herky-jerky journey.~~snip~~

The left’s selective outrage convinced me that much canonical, left-wing feminism is not so much support for women, as it is a protest against Western, heterosexual men. It’s an “I hate” phenomenon, rather than an “I love” phenomenon. ~~snip~~

Smearing us is not enough. Liberal policies sabotage us. Affirmative action benefits recipients by color, not by income. Even this limited focus fails. In his 2004 Yale University Press study, Thomas Sowell insists that affirmative action helps only wealthier African Americans. Poor blacks do not benefit. In 2009, Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford demonstrated that poor, white Christians are underrepresented on elite college campuses. Leftists add insult to injury. A blue-collar white kid, who feels lost and friendless on the alien terrain of a university campus, a campus he has to leave immediately after class so he can get to his fulltime job at MacDonald’s, must accept that he is a recipient of “white privilege” – if he wants to get good grades in mandatory classes on racism.

[Baynative]

This is a fairly long, but interesting and illuminating read.

I am posting it because it rings true to me due to my own very similar awakening.

[laplata]

Thanks for posting. It’s very good and too bad lefties and many conservatives can’t read it.

I’d bet she is familiar with David Horowitz who was raised by Commie parents.

[GnuThere]

Hmm, that’s quite a journey!

[Sans-Culotte]

Good article bump.

[Gene Eric]

>> It’s an “I hate” phenomenon, rather than an “I love” phenomenon. ~~snip~~

  LOVE TRUMPS HATE  

A protest that warms my heart...

[lizma2]

Hillary Rodham had followed Bill Clinton to Arkansas, she helped create the state’s first rape crisis hotline. First I heard about this. Good Lord.

Just when you think the Clinton's can't be more vile.

After watching the Clarence Thomas hearings and all the rats and media outrage only to see crickets over The Bent Ones escapades, made me realize we were being used.

Good read

[exnavy]

I cannot comprehend the mindset of the left. The propaganda the news media spews is arrogantly offensive.

I was born conservative. Never have i encouraged or voted for a communist member of the democrat party, nor will i ever.

[TXBlair]

Bookmarking. Thanks for posting.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for posting this. Truth still overcomes.

[PGalt]

GRRRRRRRREAT post, Baynative. Thanks. HOORAY author. Welcome aboard!

(”It’s an “I hate” phenomenon, rather than an “I love” phenomenon.”)

[DeweyCA]

10. Huffiness (victim, victimizer, defender of victims)
9. Selective Outrage (not consistent)
8. It’s the thought that counts (ignore results)
7. Leftists hate my people (disdain working-class whites)
6. I believe in God
4 & 5. Straw men and “In order to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.”
2 & 3. It doesn’t work. Other approaches work better. (cities run by Libs for decades fail, while capitalism works)
1. Hate (instead of love & doing good)

[cardinal4]

She actually writes that listening to Horowitz began her enlightenment..

[Mark was here]

She is familiar with Horowitz, she said she went to go heckle him, and wound up liking what he had to say.

[yldstrk]

great post

[pacobell]

What a great read. It verifies everything I am going through right now with some of my pseudo-kumbaya associates.

[backwoods-engineer]

I read it all. Fascinating. I think her belief in God and contact with charitable Christians is what opened her eyes to the sickening sewer that is atheist Leftism.

[backwoods-engineer]

Yes, she credits Horowitz.

[Maverick68]

Great read.

[Baynative]

As I said, it is very similar to what I went through in my conversion that took several years after being indoctrinated in college.

I learned that like a reformed smoker or alcoholic I was the worst enemy of the liberal friends I still had because I saw through all of their hypocrisy and they would get viciously angry with me for what they saw as betrayal.

I think it was Mark Twain that said, "It is easier to fool a person than to convince them they have been fooled".

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Went to Catholic School, joined the Marines at the age of 17, still employed at the age of 64, work as a Mechanical Engineer, NEVER was Liberal...heh heh Congrats on your Conversion