“What a great day this is!”. (No, that’s not paraphrasing).

Now he was being a little tongue in cheek. And of course he did not mean that people being murdered was, in and of itself, a great thing. He meant the standard lefty claptrap: At long last, disgusting American imperialism is taking a hit, at long last the oppressed innocent victims of the amoral, rapacious military industrial complex had struck back. Finally, some “justice” in the world. And if innocent people died, well, that’s just collateral damage.

To be fair, I should note he pulled back a bit by the end of the day. Although I do remember both of us being interviewed by a local reporter who was getting reactions from people on the street that night: We both agreed that any military action would be completely immoral and counterproductive. Rather, this should be handled by the International Court of Justice.

The second unnerving comment came later that morning, when both towers had fallen and Bush was on t.v. A bunch of us were watching it in our department’s seminar room. One of the professors walked in, actually a fellow who was my adviser, who I respect greatly and still keep in touch with. His reaction:

“I can’t imagine this jackass will have anything constructive to say…” (Also not a paraphrase)

Now of course, I detested Bush as much as any leftist back then. But at that moment, I was more than willing to give him the benefit of any doubt. Those two reactions really struck a chord with me. They were part of many, many little ripples over the years which very slowly nudged me to the right.

There is no way in Hades that the Leftist alliance could hold itself together if it was a “bottom up organization”. So the people at the bottom, the cannon fodder like OWS, have no idea who is using them or for what. Bernadine Dohr and her ilk are what controls OWS. The Democrats like Jesse Jackson and Sharpton are the New Slavemasters of the black community in America, and the blacks have no effing clue who their real masters are. Cause if they did… they wouldn’t make very good slave cannonfodder. They wouldn’t vote 95 or 98% Democrat, when even Saddam had troubles getting 99% of the vote.

Know your enemy. For it matters, greatly.

My grandfather was a precinct captain for the original Mayor Daley, and my whole family is rabid Democrat and somewhat leftist as well. Just because someone votes Democrat doesn’t mean they actually understand what their party is all about. I voted for Jimmy Carter and went off to college where I was exposed to an incredible barrage of leftist thought and anti-Americanism from Americans. It wasn’t long before I took my first political science course and had a guest lecture from a perennnial presidential candidate, some guy named Stansfield.

It was during Stansfield’s lecture that I suddenly realized that there is an actual ideology behind the parties, even if they don’t always abide by their ideology. I looked around at what I was seeing on campus, where I wanted to go with my life, and then had the blinding flash of the perfectly obvious.

I’ve been moderately conservative and libertarian ever since, which makes for very interesting Thanksgiving dinners with the family.

Nawwwww…they are too brain dead.

That’s what it was for me, and I suppose it is true for a lot of people who frequent this site.

In looking back, I can see some stepping away from the left even when I was on the left. When I was in college I attended some SDS meetings, as I was against the Vietnam war. In some conversation on the quad, I heard an SDS honcho say that all university students should study Lenin. This was not said in the sense that one should know one’s enemy, but in the sense that one should get to know the works of a great intellect, like Plato or Dante. The SDS honcho was gushing about Lenin.

Courtesy of a Politics course in high school and also having grown up with a number of people who fled the Iron Curtain, I knew enough about Lenin and his ilk to view the SDS honcho’s statement with distaste even then. For over a decade, I still was on the left, but that encounter was a seed that grew.

The SDS honcho who gushed about Lenin did not go the Weatherman route, and has spent some years as a state legislator in a tax-and-spend and get your photo taken with as many political bigwigs as possible mode- the Zelig of state legislators. But still a “progressive.”

Assistant Village Idiot, who also left the left, has coined a good term to describe those who left the left: Post Liberal.

That said, maybe there’s a 1:10,000,000 chance that Roger L. Simon knows the guy?

I don’t know about that, but as his story is already filtering through the internet, I’ll bet that the Hollywood conservative underground is sending out feelers as we speak. Clandestine meetings in deserted alleys, passing around samizdat, that sort of thing.

If Bill Whittle hasn’t already gotten in touch with him, I’d be surprised.

I just left another comment seconding davisbr’s invitation.

If you ever wondered why Hollywood and cable tv doesn’t have anything interesting… you might want to read his post about his own travails.

http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/plight-of-a-scriptwriter/

Andrew Breitbart, stronger in death than in life? The martyr the Left always kept telling us we were the ones making?

He “came out” on Saturday night via Twitter, and his feed was linked at Ace of Spades on Sunday, where I read it. Very cool. He just finally snapped and let fly.

An eye opener on how the fashionable thought mechanism that has advanced liberalism the past 20 years is morphing into a horribly destructive movement.