RIP Mike Adams
Professor Mike Adams’ death has been ruled a suicide. No doubt many people will consider this a coverup for a homicide. I am not one of those people, and it would take some new revelation to make me cross over … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Leaving the circle: political apostasy
Dershowitz: on being ostracized because of politics
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”] This new piece by Alan Dershowitz is interesting to me for many reasons, not the least because he demonstrates his usual sense and yet continues to find it difficult to surrender his allegiance to the … Continue reading →
The sleep of reason: leftist Furies turning on their own, who don’t know what hit them
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
Matt Taibbi is alarmed at the Democrats’ trampling on liberty, but he doesn’t quite get it
Taibbi’s only halfway to getting it. But it’s the second half of the mountain, the part he hasn’t climbed yet, that’s the steepest and most difficult to traverse. Here’s Taibbi [emphasis mine]: One had to search far and wide to … Continue reading →
Bret Easton Ellis: political changer
Here’s another changer – a recent one, author Bret Easton Ellis – telling his story. I was alerted to this by a helpful reader:
Continue reading →Conversations with friends: “Trump did nothing”
Now that we’re all housebound, I find myself talking on the phone to friends more often. Sometimes they’re people I’m not often in touch with, and – since I don’t ordinarily bring up politics in conversation anyway – most of … Continue reading →
Karlyn Borysenko of New Hampshire walks away
A number of people sent me links to this article by Karlyn Borysenko entitled “After Attending a Trump Rally, I Realized Democrats Are Not Ready For 2020,” and subtitled “I’ve been a Democrat for 20 years. But this experience made … Continue reading →
Lawfare: admitting you were wrong
The Horowitz Report dealt a blow to Lawfare: …[T]he ‘Lawfare’ blog…[is] a site that’s placed itself at the center of the operation to legitimize and push Trump-Russia conspiracy theories throughout the Trump presidency. Their specialty has been to claim the … Continue reading →
What happens when you step outside the circle: “real friends”
I’ve often written about the social aspects of personal political change from left (or liberal) to right (or conservative). It often has negative repercussions socially and will cause some people to shun the changer, a little or a lot or … Continue reading →
Actor/host Mario Lopez driven to apologize for remarks that are completely reasonable…
…and that just a short while ago would have been considered completely acceptable. Not any more. In a discussion with Candace Owens on her show, here’s what actor and TV personality Lopez said: “A lot of weird trends come out … Continue reading →
On leaving the circle dance
Don’t underestimate how emotionally difficult it is. I know precisely what “Jan in MN” is talking about here: Self-image shouldn’t be underestimated as a reason to close one’s mind to facts. I remember, in my change process, how frightening it … Continue reading →
Straka sues
Brandon Straka is the founder of the #WalkAway movement. A gay man and former liberal, Straka recently left the Democratic Party and made a YouTube video about his defection and the reasons for his change of mind. The video went … Continue reading →