A Leftist Converts

Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist

Key quote:

" I felt that I was confronting the signature essence of my social life among leftists. We rushed to cast everyone in one of three roles: victim, victimizer, or champion of the oppressed. We lived our lives in a constant state of outraged indignation. "

Yes, the standard three-class system, designed with the Left as the presumptive moral messiahs, even though their "morality" is vile, and previously known as evil.

These days it's unusual for a Lefty to convert; they have too many successes under their belts in terms of destruction of the things they hate. They're on a roll, like an avalanche tearing through an alpine village.

She counts down to number one:

"1) Hate.

If hate were the only reason, I’d stop being a leftist for this reason alone.

Almost twenty years ago, when I could not conceive of ever being anything but a leftist, I joined a left-wing online discussion forum.

Before that I’d had twenty years of face-to-face participation in leftist politics: marching, organizing, socializing.

In this online forum, suddenly my only contact with others was the words those others typed onto a screen. That limited and focused means of contact revealed something.

If you took all the words typed into the forum every day and arranged them according to what part of speech they were, you’d quickly notice that nouns expressing the emotions of anger, aggression, and disgust, and verbs speaking of destruction, punishing, and wreaking vengeance, outnumbered any other class of words.

One topic thread 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 forumpublicly 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.

I experienced powerful cognitive dissonance when I recognized the hate. The rightest of my right-wing acquaintances — I had no right-wing friends — expressed nothing like this. My right-wing acquaintances talked about loving: God, their family, their community. I’m not saying that the right-wingers I knew were better people; I don’t know that they were. I’m speaking here, merely, about language."

The Left engages in constant hate and eliminationist rhetoric, all the while condemning the Other for its intolerance of their hate. The prefabricated three-class system is lubricated with hate and intolerance, under the banner of love and tolerance. They are liars of the worst kind - they believe their own lies.

But there are so many of them now that 40% of the nation thinks that Obama is swell.