From her previous writings, I do believe she now has an eagerness and fire to see that justice is done
Before continuing, I want to acknowledge fully anyone on this thread who thinks she is not likely to be that leopard that changes its spots. I understand that. But at the same time, if this country is to go on, we NEED people on the Left to undergo the same thought process that Naomi Wolf has apparently undergone. And when we do, we need to welcome them and give them a fresh evaluation. Naomi Wolf may be like the alcoholic who swears off, then the first time a Manhattan Cocktail party is dangled in front of her face, she reverts to form. But if we want to save this Republic, and have any future, we need to hope more and more people like her have the scales fall from their eyes, and see the incoherence and deceptions of the Left, and engage in, as she apparently has, a valid introspection.
That said, folks...this is about as close to a real apology as anyone is ever likely to get from any Leftist anywhere, so in that sense, I applaud her and accept it. I think we all should.
I doubt she is a dummy to have come this far before feeling compelled to write this. What is more likely is that she is a poster child for that dynamic of Leftists who live within that “bubble”, and they assume that any piece of information that penetrates the soapy membrane of that bubble to reach them is the truth.
We, as Conservatives, are largely different in this respect.
We are absolutely susceptible to being inside the same soapy bubble that insulates us, but there is a difference:
First, Conservatism by its nature tends to be more reality based. It just is. We are less driven by unhinged (from reality) emotion and sentimentality. It is why, you would probably have to classify most of the founders as conservatives, with a few exceptions. The believed in the inherent evil that exists in Man, and that it must be fought on an ongoing basis.
Second, Conservatives HAVE to engage in introspection. We have to, and most that I know, do to varying degrees. I say we have to because we are vilified in the media, entertainment, educational, and government spheres. We are put into a point where we, as conservatives, must examine our beliefs, because so many societal forces out there tell us that not only we are wrong, but we are evil.
Conservatives have more solid foundational principles that we build our ideological house on top of. Often we don’t have to go back and re-examine our principles on many of those things, because we have already thought them through. Principles such as valuing the individual over the collective. Opposition to wholesale and unlimited slaughter of the unborn. Adherence to the laws of a Republic. The concept that personal liberty and economic liberty are inextricably intertwined, and you cannot destroy one without destroying the other.
And so on.
It also means that we tie back any new issues to those we have thought through in the past to ensure they are as consistent as can be going forward.
That is why I view much of this coming from Naomi Wolf as significant. She is engaging in candid introspection, which is wholly a Conservative value. The Left is totally, completely, and utterly devoid of introspection. They KNOW in their hearts they are right, but their river of intellectual coherence being a mile wide and a nanometer deep (as most emotionally based people are) once you scratch the surface, their intellectual coherence is non-existent.
In summary, I welcome hearing a Leftist icon speaking the unspeakable aloud. She may have reservations. But we need to welcome people who manage to stick their heads through that soapy bubble and hear something that challenges their beliefs.
It’s indeed remarkable, the change in her chosen topics to cover.
I freely admit to being angry for those who have been harmed and/or outright destroyed by the left and her helping the left in those years she helped the left. I can only imagine how I felt (and feel) having gone from darkness into Light and truly pray for her to continue her new walk.
It will be interesting to see how far down the road she will be willing to walk to uncover more lies and to help the ones wronged.