Posted on 12/09/2009 9:45:25 PM PST by Brugmansian
FP: Andrew Klavan, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
I’d like to talk to you today about your journey into and out of the Left.
How did you at first become a member of the political faith? Tell us about the beginnings of your intellectual journey.
Klavan: Well, I was always a dissatisfied liberal. I just never knew there was anything else to be. I was born Jewish to a mother who worshipped FDR and a father who thought that any Republican victory prefigured the return of Adolf Hitler. That’s not an exaggeration: he thought Republicans were all just Hitler in disguise . . .
FP: So how did your second thoughts begin? Tell us about your journey out of the Left.
Klavan: It was an experience that very much mirrored the pattern of the famous paradigm shift described in Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Anomalies started to occur, things that didn’t fit into what I thought of as a “liberal” world view. The Bakke case, in which the Supreme Court supported affirmative action – that was a big one: I thought it was a clear sign that the left – my side – had signed on to racism. Feminism, political correctness, the disaster of welfare, the appeasement of the Soviet Union – I kept saying, “Well, that’s no good,” but I thought they were anomalies. I still didn’t realize there was an alternative philosophy that described the world more accurately. Then the Berlin Wall fell down – everything Reagan predicted – stupid Reagan, cowboy Reagan, dumb old movie actor Reagan – every single thing he said would happen, happened. And it finally began to dawn on me, “Oh, I get it: it’s not this and this and this that’s wrong. It’s ALL wrong.” And I started the long, difficult process of changing my mind . . .
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I hope that Rush didn't actually say that. Liberalism isn't going to "die out" as long as liberals continue to infect any unsuspecting person within reach of their dogma and propaganda.
No, liberalism has to be killed in the marketplace of ideas and results.
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