June 10, 2014
And so the train thunders down the track.
Conservatives by themselves can’t put the brakes on a runaway.To accomplish this they need a coalition with elements of the left; to make common cause among intelligent liberals. But it won’t happen yet — won’t happen for a long time — despite the evidence of their senses, because they have an almost religious attachment to the Cause. The Left is a religion. It looks away from the obvious sins of its leaders the way earlier generations of churchgoers sometimes averted their gaze from the misdeeds of their own. The Left will abandon the Left around the time the Wahabis abandon Wahabism.It is so central to them that life without it would be meaningless.
Leaving the Left is like being a man without a country. It is easier to change your passport than to change your friends. As one person put, “If I had to choose between my country and my friends, I hope to have the courage to choose my friends”. The reason people on the Left can’t rebel isn’t because they cannot bring themselves to doubt Obama. It’s because they can’t bring themselves to stop going to cocktail parties.Belmont Club » A Sudden Realization
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 10, 2014 11:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.