Up from Liberalism

City Journal ^ | Janet Daley

[Born Conservative]

Bump for later reading.

[Savage Beast]

"I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity."

Most do.

"Well...it was a mixture of conscientiousness and perversity"

For most it's a mixture of stupidity and perversity.

But, then, that does describe the Left and the Democrat Party--fools and scoundrels.

[Rummyfan]

Bump for later.

[TheBigB]

BTTT. Good article.

[Fledermaus]

So what made this writer a total bore?

[gaspar]

What made this woman a total bore? The Free Speech Movement and a University of California education.

[sageb1]

Somebody gets it. Socialism destroys human spirit.

[popdonnelly]

The self-defeating sense of solidarity that she describes has a parallel among some blacks, who consider it disloyal to the group for someone to try to improve themselves.

[blackie]

Good stuff ~ bump!

[Drango]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350141/posts

For another good read, check out this SF Chron article written by a FReeper.

[frankiep]

bump

[Rummyfan]

Being plunged into darkness several times a week gave you plenty of time to think. What kind of idyll was it that was supposed to emerge from this ugly, vindictive battle? Was left-wing politics anything more than a gloss for envious vengeance on the one hand, and—on the other—a sinister desire to control the lives of others? And, in the end, wasn’t it the achievements and the nobility of individuals, not collectives, that gave the human condition its point? The answers to those questions came to me in the darkness of that very cold British winter of 1979. Once heard, they could not be forgotten.

Good read, thanks for the post! What was it Churchill (Winston, not Ward!) said about socialism: it seeks to make everyone equally miserable?

[NorCalRepub]

actually the UC system is recognized as the best public university education in the US with Cal the #1 public university, it was the free speech movement and the drugged out hippy type pinko fags that were sleeping in the streets and spacing out on mind altering drugs that created her lack of wisdom and boredom.........LOL>....

[mondonico]

BTTT!

[mbennett203]

"Was left-wing politics anything more than a gloss for envious vengeance on the one hand, and—on the other—a sinister desire to control the lives of others?"

For some it's just naive youthful optimism. But I do get this sense from others. Like Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, and gun-banners in general.

OT, but the further left someone gets the funnier I find it if they advocate gun control.

"How in the hell do you plan to bring about a revolution involving the overthrow of the government, removal (murder) of the "upper classes" (varying definitions), and making sure no one's being "insincere" (read: not properly following the dogma) without guns, comrade? With gentle persuasion?"

[Cogadh na Sith]

For your attention. One of the best articles ever....

[mbennett203]

"The self-defeating sense of solidarity that she describes has a parallel among some blacks, who consider it disloyal to the group for someone to try to improve themselves."

The most frequently encountered term I think is "That guy/girl is acting white," or in some cases "is white". Apparently, hard work and personal responsibility are white-only values. [/sarcasm]

[truth_seeker]

Whilst in Britain, the author picked up one British trait:

Verbosity. That is irrespective, of the outcome.

I witnessed the same era, same transitions. And could tell it in one quarter the wordcount.

[George Smiley]

This article pointedly reminds me of Orwell's The Road To Wigan Pier