Power Line - Can There Be a Decent Left, Revisited
Excerpt:
"And yet, the leftist critique--most clearly, I think, from the Vietnam years forward (from the time of 'Amerika,' Viet Cong flags, and breathless trips to the North)--has been stupid, overwrought, grossly inaccurate. It is the product of what Philip Roth, in his novel I Married a Communist, aptly described as 'the combination of embitterment and not thinking.' The left has lost its bearings. Why?"
Friday, June 17, 2011
"A Liberal’s Idea of a Republican "
A Liberal’s Idea of a Republican « Commentary Magazine
"Huntsman remains a liberal’s idea of a Republican. That is why he seems like a reasonable candidate to Bai. He’s a candidate whose campaign is geared to run against his own party and specifically not against Obama, whom he refuses to attack in his speeches. That means even in New Hampshire he can only appeal to basically liberal constituencies. The idea such a person could have a serious chance of winning the nomination of an overwhelmingly conservative party is absurd."
"Huntsman remains a liberal’s idea of a Republican. That is why he seems like a reasonable candidate to Bai. He’s a candidate whose campaign is geared to run against his own party and specifically not against Obama, whom he refuses to attack in his speeches. That means even in New Hampshire he can only appeal to basically liberal constituencies. The idea such a person could have a serious chance of winning the nomination of an overwhelmingly conservative party is absurd."
Friday, June 10, 2011
This is a fit: Malignant Narcissim and "progressives"
Dr. Sanity: THE POLITICAL LEFT AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF NARCISSISM -- Part III
Noteworthy:
"You can then count on the true leftist believer to close his eyes not only to his own internal reality, but also to the external reality that proves the uselessness of his beliefs in the real world. Few on the left have ever acknowledged the nightmare of the Soviet gulag; or Lenin's purges; or China's crackdowns.
....You can then count on the true leftist believer to close his eyes not only to his own internal reality, but also to the external reality that proves the uselessness of his beliefs in the real world. Few on the left have ever acknowledged the nightmare of the Soviet gulag; or Lenin's purges; or China's crackdowns. Few have ever even accepted the incredible human cost their ideologies have taken on humanity; the death the suffering and misery, the abject poverty.
...The anger and rage (that are so much a part of malignant narcissism) that the political left has nurtured and cultivated over the years will not go away. They need it desperately to keep their fragile, rotting narcissistic and grandiose self image--even if they have to destroy this country to do so."
Noteworthy:
"You can then count on the true leftist believer to close his eyes not only to his own internal reality, but also to the external reality that proves the uselessness of his beliefs in the real world. Few on the left have ever acknowledged the nightmare of the Soviet gulag; or Lenin's purges; or China's crackdowns.
....You can then count on the true leftist believer to close his eyes not only to his own internal reality, but also to the external reality that proves the uselessness of his beliefs in the real world. Few on the left have ever acknowledged the nightmare of the Soviet gulag; or Lenin's purges; or China's crackdowns. Few have ever even accepted the incredible human cost their ideologies have taken on humanity; the death the suffering and misery, the abject poverty.
...The anger and rage (that are so much a part of malignant narcissism) that the political left has nurtured and cultivated over the years will not go away. They need it desperately to keep their fragile, rotting narcissistic and grandiose self image--even if they have to destroy this country to do so."
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