Thank you, Barry Meislin for link to ‘The Turn.’ That was a great piece.
Leibovitz description of his world in his original social standing as a leftist just so captured the unthinking, unselfaware, oh so right thinking crowd. Sounds as if he is of the group that seems to say that the left left him.

Also, what a great title, great concept, The Turn. Second only to my favorite title of a conversion story, David Mamet’s ‘Why I am No Longer a Brain Dead Liberal.’

Long winded way of leading to a link to a podcast, Explore Purpose My Story Podcast, in which Richard Pollack discusses the shift in his thinking from progressive to conservative. (I’ve not listened yet, so I hope it’s a good link and a good story.)

https://mystorypodcast.podbean.com/e/015-richard-pollock-50-years-in-the-swamp/

See my post Conformity, Cruelty, and Political Activism:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/70696.html

Considering they are in public creating a scene and disruption, this is a rather imperious tactic of assumed privilege and superiority to take, relative to both the norms that govern interpersonal relations with, and the persons of, their ostensible “fellow” citizens who inhabit the same political space.

I do not think they quite appreciate the precipice upon which they are standing: though many of the sensitive conservative types would be quick to make excuses for their pride, ardor, and naivete, rather than to say to them, “So be it; and ….”

Mac:

Strictly speaking, Alinsky dedicated “Rules for Radicals” to his wife, Irene. However, immediately thereafter he quotes Rabbi Hillel, Thomas Paine, then Alinsky himself as introductory epigraphs to “Rules”.
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Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.

–Saul Alinsky
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OK. Alinsky didn’t exactly dedicate his book to Satan, but …

–Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

While hosting a social event last week in a public place, I introduced myself to a new arrival who was chatting with a female friend of mine. Just then she asked the newbie about his scarf. He said it was a keffiyeh.

I got that, and chose to ignore him. My hosting duties called, and I had others to greet.

Later, the encounter stuck with me. And I realized that in my pocket I had all I needed to call him out. (I’ll put the rest of this in past tense for ease of storytelling.)

“So you’re wearing this, why?” (Wait for answer.)

(Fish out the iPhone and call up the YouTube video showing 3-4 Hamas attackers dragging a young woman away from the Oct. 7 concert where many were murdered and kidnapped.)

“She was taken into captivity and raped for days on end.” (Let that sink in with my friend.)

“So: Whose side are you on?”

(Regardless of his answer, keep replaying the video.)