Top Ten Reasons I Am No Longer A Leftist

[endicom]

The Patriot Institute
Publius
Mar. 1, 2017

Dr. Danusha V. Goska was a life-long leftist and recently wrote that she has abandoned that philosophy. Here, she gives her top ten reasons. It’s long, but I highly recommend it.

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.

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This is from 2014 but so what? She well describes the left.

[Oceander]

Very good essay.  Well worth the read, and as important today as it was in 2014.  I wonder what the author is doing now.

[EC]

Her blog is here: http://bieganski-the-blog.blogspot.co.uk/

The bits I've skimmed are intriguing.

[endicom]

Very good essay.  Well worth the read, and as important today as it was in 2014.

I agree.

I wonder what the author is doing now.

Seems to be a lecturer at William Paterson University. In...Women's Studies. Unless that's some other Dr. Danusha  Goska.

[endicom]

Her blog is here: http://bieganski-the-blog.blogspot.co.uk/

The bits I've skimmed are intriguing.

From one of the posts:

"The Jewish Telegraph Agency published an article focusing on the history of the "five million" number, rather than on the actual suffering and victimization of, and crimes against, millions of human beings.

The article's focus on a relatively marginal point -- the history of the five million number -- is inappropriate. It looks like an attempt to distract the reader from actual human suffering, and to trivialize that suffering by casting doubt on the number of victims. If part of the story is made up, maybe the entire story is made up."

Casting doubt on the number of victims is an old tactic of Holocaust deniers. It is indeed done to lead you into believing the entire Holocaust story was made up.

[EC]

I've been reading through her posts - she's sharp and lays her case well.

Don't always agree with her (don't always agree with myself, either) but she's an elegant thinker.

[XenaLee]

She points out something that had never occurred to me about leftists being misogynists even while accusing others of it (typical leftist projection and hypocrisy).  She's right.  For them to use those terms against the right, they must feel that way about gays and about women for it to be considered, by them, to be a vulgar insult.

Given that the left prides itself on being the liberator of women, homosexuals, and on being “sex positive,” one of the weirder and most obvious aspects of left-wing hate is how often, and how virulently, it is expressed in terms that are misogynist, homophobic, and in the distinctive anti-sex voice of a sexually frustrated high-school misfit. Haters are aware enough of how uncool it would be to use a slur like “fag,” so they sprinkle their discourse with terms indicating anal rape like “butt hurt.” Leftists taunt right-wingers as “tea baggers.” The implication is that the target of their slur is either a woman or a gay man being orally penetrated by a man, and is, therefore, inferior, and despicable.

[Hondo69]

I've been reading through her posts - she's sharp and lays her case well.

Don't always agree with her (don't always agree with myself, either) but she's an elegant thinker.

 

I had to chuckle with your note (don't always agree with myself, either).  Right there with you.

When I change my mind on a subject I normally realize that I've made a change - but not always.  And if I don't even realize I've shifted positions do I still think, "I was right all along"?  Well, there's no way to tell, which makes me chuckle at the juxtaposition of parallel beliefs.  How could I have been right all along if I changed my mind at some point?

And if that guy in the mirror tends to overthink things then someone needs to slap him upside the head and snap him back to reality.  So I've come to terms with the idea that it is not only OK to change your mind, but it is also most likely a very healthy indicator that I'm not part of a cult.  Which makes me chuckle for some unknown reason.

[Gefn]

I had to chuckle with your note (don't always agree with myself, either).  Right there with you.

When I change my mind on a subject I normally realize that I've made a change - but not always.  And if I don't even realize I've shifted positions do I still think, "I was right all along"?  Well, there's no way to tell, which makes me chuckle at the juxtaposition of parallel beliefs.  How could I have been right all along if I changed my mind at some point?

And if that guy in the mirror tends to overthink things then someone needs to slap him upside the head and snap him back to reality.  So I've come to terms with the idea that it is not only OK to change your mind, but it is also most likely a very healthy indicator that I'm not part of a cult.  Which makes me chuckle for some unknown reason.

Very nice point Sir.

Challenging your point of view is also part of the process of growing up. That's one of the reasons I loved college.

[Hondo69]

Very nice point Sir.

Challenging your point of view is also part of the process of growing up. That's one of the reasons I loved college.

If a young man is not a Liberal, he has no heart.  If an old man is not a conservative, he has no brain. – Winston Churchill