The Black Republican

There really is not much I can add to what Keith Thomson says in his piece titled;

Leaving the left
I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity

But I can provide a few quotes to tease out the reader's interest.

"I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode. "

and

"Like many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left's mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror."

That sounds familiar, right Cobra?

"When I casually offered that the surviving relatives of the more than 20 million people murdered on orders of Joseph Stalin might not find "evil'" too strong a word, the room took on a collective bemused smile of the sort you might expect if someone had casually mentioned taking up child molestation for sport.

My progressive companions had a point. It was rude to bring a word like "gulag" to the dinner table."

Hey man, some heavy sarcasm in that last line. And this was written before Dhick Dhurbin compared Gitmo to the Soviet gulags, thereby slandering our country. Oops, I said gulag, hope you weren't eating.

Wait, it gets better. When actor Bill Cosby called on black parents to explain to their kids why they are not likely to get into medical school speaking English like "Why you ain't" and "Where you is," Jesse Jackson countered that the time was not yet right to "level the playing field." Why not? Because "drunk people can't do that ... illiterate people can't do that."

Nuff said dog.

I'll admit my politics have shifted in recent years, as have America's political landscape and cultural horizon. Who would have guessed that the U.S. senator with today's best voting record on human rights would be not Ted Kennedy or Barbara Boxer but Kansas Republican Sam Brownback?

Imagine that.

Read it all, there is so much I left out.

Tammy Bruce

Josh Davenport for reminding me to add Mr. Thompson's Web Page link. He also has a blog, Sane Nation.