Posted on 07/27/2017 7:20:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Dr. Danusha V. Goska was a lifelong liberal who “could not conceive of ever being anything but a leftist.”
Her fantastic column, “Top Ten Reasons I Am No Longer a Leftist,” details how and why her philosophies changed.
How far left was I? So far left my beloved uncle was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party in a Communist country. When I returned to his Slovak village to buy him a mass card, the priest refused to sell me one. So far left that a self-identified terrorist proposed marriage to me. So far left I was a two-time Peace Corps volunteer and I have a degree from UC Berkeley. So far left that my Teamster mother used to tell anyone who would listen that she voted for Gus Hall, Communist Party chairman, for president. I wore a button saying “Eat the Rich.” To me it wasn’t a metaphor.
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.
10) Huffiness.
In the late 1990s I was reading Anatomy of the Spirit, a then recent bestseller by Caroline Myss.
Myss described having lunch with a woman named Mary. A man approached Mary and asked her if she were free to do a favor for him on June 8th. No, Mary replied, I absolutely cannot do anything on June 8th because June 8th is my incest survivors’ meeting and we never let each other down! They have suffered so much already! I would never betray incest survivors!
Myss was flabbergasted. Mary could have simply said “Yes” or “No.”
(Excerpt) Read more at truthuncensored.net ...
Excellent
Yes. It was very long and having her declare her leftist history was boring. But it was worth it in the long run. Thanks for posting the article. It was a very rare viewpoint.
And of course the people who need to read it, won't....
Therein lies the rub.
One of the many reasons I still drink with the living dead ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsObv4b-qYg&list=PLvovKlomeYHlel3kcxBePfkSoXpjmZ_WU&index=13
I read this the other day.
Great read.
Its clear to me that the entire reason for her conversion was that some seed of faith from her Polish heritage lay dormant within her - until one day it sprung to life, seeking Christ.
after that, the scales dropped from her eyes and her mind was renewed.
Read it, compelling.
A post that left me in awe and taught me how to understand the insanity of the left. Thanks for the gift from a beautiful, brilliant, sensitive woman, the author.
An excerpt from deep in the piece:
“One topic thread [on a leftist forum] was entitled “What do you view as disgusting about modern America?” The thread was begun in 2002. Almost eight thousand posts later, the thread was still going strong in June, 2014.
Those posting messages in this left-wing forum publicly announced that they did what they did every day, from voting to attending a rally to planning a life, because they wanted to destroy something, and because they hated someone, rather than because they wanted to build something, or because they loved someone. You went to an anti-war rally because you hated Bush, not because you loved peace. Thus, when Obama bombed, you didn’t hold any anti-war rally, because you didn’t hate Obama.”
This is a long read, but it moves quickly and is very well written. Thanks for posting.
Bkmrk.
Yes, that excerpt was very interesting, and true. It reminds me today of the MSM blackout of the Wasserman-Schultz IT scandal.
Bookmark for distribution.
““I always protest with a smile.”
And she will have that very same smile when she puts a bullet in the back of someone’s head.
L
L8r
Great read and I want to share this with a lot of people ;)
Outstanding read, and thanks for posting. Yes to all of those, especially the curious matter of permanent and all-pervasive hatred. It seems so necessary to them.
Yes, that excerpt hit me in the gut as well.
I also like the part when she discovers the YouTube video of Milton Friedman destroying Phil Donahue’s castigation of greed and says, “Oh my God, he’s right.”
Excellent article covering the range of leftist outrages....
Excellent article. I, too, have noticed that pure hatred is what drives the Left.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.