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I was pleasantly surprised to read that the derangement on the left following the Trump victory is even getting to be a bit much for some life-long liberals. That restores my faith in humanity to a certain extent.
"When the left gets extreme enough, even some life-long liberals get put off from their intolerant behavior... there seems to be hope for them yet.
In the wake of Trump’s election, I am experiencing ‘tribe fatigue.’ I’m not tired of The Other, Detestable Tribe. I’m tired of my own.
So I was raised a secular liberal. My college professors were secular liberals. During my journalism phase, my newspaper colleagues were secular liberals. My law school professors and peers were – in the vast majority – secular liberals. Almost everyone at my corporate law firm was a secular liberal. My California neighbors and friends are secular liberals, as are my colleagues. My mother, siblings, and their spouses are all secular liberals.
By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, ‘liking’ their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them."
"When the left gets extreme enough, even some life-long liberals get put off from their intolerant behavior... there seems to be hope for them yet.
In the wake of Trump’s election, I am experiencing ‘tribe fatigue.’ I’m not tired of The Other, Detestable Tribe. I’m tired of my own.
So I was raised a secular liberal. My college professors were secular liberals. During my journalism phase, my newspaper colleagues were secular liberals. My law school professors and peers were – in the vast majority – secular liberals. Almost everyone at my corporate law firm was a secular liberal. My California neighbors and friends are secular liberals, as are my colleagues. My mother, siblings, and their spouses are all secular liberals.
By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, ‘liking’ their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them."
‘My Fellow Liberals, I’m Tired Of You’
Posted from theamericanconservative.com
Political Correctness
Election 2016
Tolerance
Posted 8 y ago
Responses: 6
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I just wish that Leftists stop calling themselves"liberal". There's nothing liberal about them and they give real Liberals a bad name
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Capt Seid Waddell
CPT Jack Durish, they were called "progressives" back in the Wilson administration, and they were thoroughly disgraced by the results of their policies. As is their habit, they "fixed" their reputation by switching the name of their movement to "Liberal".
Now that their policies have sullied the "Liberal" reputation, they are switching back to "Progressive" again, since those that knew about their previous reputation have all died out.
Their disastrous policies remain the only constant with this movement.
Now that their policies have sullied the "Liberal" reputation, they are switching back to "Progressive" again, since those that knew about their previous reputation have all died out.
Their disastrous policies remain the only constant with this movement.
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Pleasantly surprised, but guardedly sceptical. One of millions doesn't offer much hope. Here's to hoping she's not the only one, and that I'm just a washed up old cynic.
"I am tired of their undisguised contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their response to the election with humility or empathy.
I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and condescension.
I am tired of their name-calling and virtue-signaling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.
I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and then acting like anyone not on board is an idiot/hater.
I am tired of their shallowness"
"I am tired of their undisguised contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their response to the election with humility or empathy.
I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and condescension.
I am tired of their name-calling and virtue-signaling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.
I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and then acting like anyone not on board is an idiot/hater.
I am tired of their shallowness"
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Capt Seid Waddell
SN Greg Wright, she is not alone. I have friends that were life-long Democrats that switched during the Clinton administration when his character became clear - along with the Democrat Party's uncritical defense of his indefensible behavior.
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I find letters like these to not bear much weight. It's less an argument than an unattributable feel good piece. I think a much better conversion story is Collier & Horowitz's "Destructive Generation"
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