I'm leaving the left

[dorbie 0]

Not me, this guy;

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/22/INGUNCQHKJ1.DTL

He makes some good points.

[lawrocket 3]

Try reading "Radical Son" by David Horowitz.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Frenchy68 0]

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Not me, this guy;

You scared me! Good lefties are hard to find nowadays...

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[diverborg 0]

Haha, Frenchy made a funny.

[JohnRich 4]

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He makes some good points.

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Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.

I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

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(Bolding is mine)

[storm1977 0]

An excellent article that shares my view points exactly... I too was a liberal at one point, and 5 years ago, that changed...

I would never be able to write anything as detailed and literate like this guy did to explain how I felt and when my views have shifted.

A very good article, thanks for posting it!!!

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Sometimes it is more important to protect LIFE than Liberty

[bodypilot90 0]

Sure rings true.......If JFK was alive I believe he would disown his brother.

[storm1977 0]

JFKs famous... "Ask not what your country can do for you" quote is the exact opposite of what the liberal adgenda is these days....

The liberal adgenda is now completely about what the Government should do for its people.
The mainstream left has now drifted so far left that it thinks that "moderate Dems" are exactly that. The truth is, the moderates are what we would have called Liberal 20 yrs ago...

They are now looking for a cause, when there really isn't one. It made sense in the 60's and 70's, but what is their goal now???

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Sometimes it is more important to protect LIFE than Liberty

[TheAnvil 0]

I have a confession: I used to be a Democrat.

Not kidding. Thank God I came to my senses.

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!