Posted on 03/27/2004 5:09:18 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A few years ago, I worked for a struggling dot-com in Manhattan whose work force was almost uniformly liberal. Given my conservative orientation, I saw little sense in getting involved in workplace political discussions. My silence was interpreted as acquiescence until I could stand it no longer and fessed up. One co-worker, who had served on the committee that hired me, felt betrayed.
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I've been down this road...and he's right, you don't come over to the right feeling the least bit disillusioned.
You have far more confidence in Left intellectuals - and far less confidence in Right intellectuals - than I do. If the Left had a strong intellectual argument, Thomas Sowell and others would chew on it immediately.But in fact my analysis of leftism is that it is primarily a phenomenon of exploitation - the sincere leftists are "misinformed" and/or self-deluded by the strength of their wishes. You need only assume that the people who trouble themselves to become journalists have more desire for power and less scruple about abusing power than the general population to understand the negative, superficial, arrogant, cowardly nature of journalism.
And to understand that is to know that journalists are bullies, and naturally push people and institutions to the left. And thus to understand that only the principled and courageous withstand that pressure - and are labeled "right wing" for their trouble.
Anticonservative arguments are arrogant, cynical arguments. Nothing more.
Great read. Interesting to see how the author evolved and came to his senses.
It's funny -- For all of the ex-libs who have become conservatives, there seems to be a genuine scarcity of ex-conservatives who become libs. It appears to be a one-way street.
You become a conservative when you accept the truth for what it is, not what you want it to be.
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