Robohobo,

Yes, I know what a Red Diaper Baby is. There were a LOT of them among the Older Cohort of Baby Boomers. I left the Left in 1987 and sort of gravitated in a moderate zone, in between the liberal Left and the conservative Right during the nineties. After 9/11 I was so horrified by the blatant alliance that the Left was forging with Islam that I moved Right of center. In fact, I learned that this alliance of convenience between the socialists and the Muslims had been in the works for quite a long time. So, I burned my bridges and I can see absolutely no way of going back to the Left ever again.

Before I left the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) I had been training to be an academic theologian/philosopher. My project was to explore the ways we could get around the valid objections, based on human nature, from the criticisms of socialism from people like Michael Novak. Eventually, I discovered that socialist societies do not produce more moral human beings. Quite the opposite, actually. Plus, in terms of growing an economy and providing opportunity, socialism fails everywhere, always has failed, and ever shall fail.

It is the disturbing lack of an intellectual search, a lack of study of the ideas themselves, and a paucity of historical knowledge that marks today’s Leftists. Earlier generations of them were generally more solid in their academic grasp of ideas and history. The newer generations of socialists are idiots, pure and simple. I hate to be that blunt, but it’s true. When I read the stuff over at the Left wing blogs these days I am stunned by the lack of erudition and knowledge.