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November 16, 2004
Whatever happened to the left?
Hindrocket asks: "Today, the liberals' response to the spread of freedom is one of sour disapproval. They attribute the liberation of 50 million to a weird "neocon" conspiracy. They call President Bush a "liar" when he speaks of his desire to help Arabs and Muslims realize their God-given right to be free.
Whatever happened to the left? When did it give up on the cause of freedom? I don't know. But the American left's abandonment of the cause of liberty is one of the saddest facts of modern history."
If I had to put a date to it it would be 1968, but that misses the point. Not all of the left ever supported freedom in the first place. A good chunk of the left does not want us to be free and never has. Many opposed tyranny, but only if it is a right wing tyranny. They were (are) cool with left wing tyranny like the Soviet Union and Cuba. Today many leftists hate America (left wing tyranny's greatest enemy) more than they love the oppressed. Had France (with Michael Moore taking point) led the liberation of Iraq and had America stayed out of it and if we had the same results in Iraq that we have today, the left would be much more cool with it.
These leftist are distinct from the FDR and JFK style liberals who genuinely opposed all forms of tyranny. But note the pre 1968 date in relation to those two names. Hindrockets original post I linked to above was in response to an Amnesty International flyer equating Republicans with Nazis. That a once respectable group like Amnesty International could put out a flyer like this shows how far the left has fallen, especially since Republicans have freed far more people from tyranny over the past 30 years than any other political group of people on the planet.
Posted by Pete at November 16, 2004 09:14 AM
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