[fporretto]

In Roger Kimball's excellent Tenured Radicals, he makes explicit note of the syndrome he calls "Left Eclecticism" -- the tendency for leftists to adopt any and every anti-American, anti-individualism, anti-capitalism position making the rounds and wrap them all up in one huge package deal. Thomas Sowell's The Vision Of The Anointed provides a brilliant analysis of the psychological reasons for this reflexive adoption of seemingly unrelated causes and mascots, stemming from the Left's need to see itself as morally superior to the rest of the world.

One way or another, it means that to adopt even one Left-aproved position will result in having to keep company with a huge number of unsavory types whose agendas bear no relation to one's own. That goes a long way toward explaining why the Left is almost entirely composed of the vulgar, the unwashed, and the generally unacceptable. They can bear one another; others are more particular.

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[F16Fighter]

"The tendency for leftists [is] to adopt any and every anti-American, anti-individualism, anti-capitalism position making the rounds and wrap them all up in one huge package deal.

To further add insult to injury the Left then demands its fecal "package" be wrapped up in an American Flag.

[palmer]

having to keep company with a huge number of unsavory types whose agendas bear no relation to one's own

Back when I protested against the bombing of Serbia I would get asked if I was going to the next protest (e.g. a Free Mumia protest). I kept wondering then how the increased numbers of protestors weighed against the dilution of the anti-war message. It depends on the situation, in that case it made some sense to have a left-right coalition against the center-left warmongering president.