Leaving The Left

Reposted as history. Originally posted in May of 2005.

Keith Thompson - Sunday, May 22, 2005 - San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com)

I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity

Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. 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.

Like Christopher Hitchens, Keith Thompson is a "classical liberal". It is interesting to see more and more "classical liberals" come to the reality that today's Left (socialist-progressive) has abandoned the ideal of classical liberalism and is solely committed to political power and the destruction of free enterprise (i.e. America as it's leading proponent) no matter who they have to align with to do it. This article explains why so many libertarians and "classical liberals" are coming over to the Republican Party. They are the neo-conservatives you hear so much about.