Maggie's Farm

An Observation on Thompson's Piece

Keith Thompson's piece, Leaving the Left: a Free Liberal's Manifesto, which we posted last week, seems to have rapidly made the rounds of blogs world-wide. I guess it resonates. Most of us are ex-liberals who finally realized the truth about the Left.

Read these two sentences - (it's my bold print):

I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I’m separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.

Is he describing ordinary political views, or a false religion? It's honest of him to put it this way, and I think very revealing of whence the ferocity and desperation of the left derives. If political views make up the core of your identity and "sense of the cosmos," you are both lost and dangerous. (Real politicians know it's a game they play to make a living and an outrageously good pension.) Thompson, a fine writer, got found.

He also edited an interesting-looking book - To Be a Man: In Search of the Deep Masculine. Deep Masculine - that has a good sound.