Leaving the Left, An editiorial
Ah having taking a second job as working the graveyard shift, I have been listening to a lot of older talk radio programs in a bid to stay awake. THis article is old, but I thought it was rather an interesting read.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NGUNCQHKJ1.DTL
O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean
Re: Leaving the Left, An editiorial
Good for him, I would run from that, too.I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.
But it looks to me he is merely leaving some of his old dinner companions. Heaven knows why, the article is just more of teh old left-right acrimony.
I believe we should always measure ourselves against the best our opponents have to offer, not the worst, certainly not cast in anecdotal form.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
Re: Leaving the Left, An editiorial
What the Christ? Who does he eat with that they smile about child molestation?Originally Posted by Old dude who somehow became conservative
I think he should take a closer look at the extremists on the right before running away from the extremists on the left.
Re: Leaving the Left, An editiorial
"That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stewart Mills
But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
LORD ACTON
Re: Leaving the Left, An editiorial
Why did you quote me and then a random passage from the article?
Re: Leaving the Left, An editiorial
Maybe it all boils down to which side's outrageous extremists you find more distasteful.
The author is correct -- there are stupid, intolerant dopes on the left. There are also close-minded ideologues on the right. Shall we score points by comparing idiots?
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