Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Leaving the Left

Wow! Full props to Belmont Club for this one.

Read it. I wish there was a way to communicate these ideas to my monster-in-law, but if the Boston Globe doesn't say it, it's all right wing propoganda. So, when the GeekWife & I disagree with the Holy of Holies, the Globe, we're just demonstrating how we've turned into right-wing, radical, Christian conservatives (who still believe in freedom of choice, gay rights, most social programs, and ARE NOT Christian, hmmm....). Go read it.

1 comment:

geekwife said...

Great read. I don't know why, but I really enjoy it when other people put words to the shift we've made to the right. Or more accurately, the feeling that we've only shifted our weight onto the right leg, and the lefties have lurched leftward out from under us. I guess it just affirms to me that I haven't, in fact, lost my principles but have instead have kept them in the face of a philosphy that demands I give up rational thought.

Two bits in the article that I particularly enjoyed:

"With no socialism to provide international solidarity, good motives of tolerance and respect for other cultures have had the unintended consequence of leading a large part of post-modern liberal opinion into the position of 19th-century imperialists. It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs. So it may be, but believe that and the upshot is that democracy, feminism and human rights become good for whites but not for browns and brown-skinned people who contradict you are the tools of the neo-conservatives."

And

"It's like a religion: the contradictions are obvious to outsiders but don't disturb the faithful. You believe when you're in its warm embrace."

So true, as my mom demonstrates for us regulary. And again, reinforces my thinking that the left has a serious problem with confronting reality.

Thanks for sharing.