Leaving The Left Moments In The News That Made Me Ashamed To Be A Liberal First Edition Keith Thompson by Keith Thompson 9781595230263, 1595230262 instant download after payment.

And so, beginning with his 2005 San Francisco Chronicle essay also titled "Leaving the Left," Keith Thompson has defected, terminating a relationship forged as the nation's youngest McGovern delegate in 1972, and later as a staffer for the liberal Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio.

A baby-boomer father, outdoorsman, and northern California writer, Thompson spent decades considering himself a "liberal" and opposing "conservatives." . . . Until he had to confess that the racism, sexism, and oppression he deplored had taken root in the modern-day left.

In this remarkably frank memoir, Thompson admits to the many occasions before the liberation of Iraq when he-and probably many other people like him-felt ashamed of the left . . . but stood silently by rather than criticize it. For example, when:
*Professor Ward Churchill labeled the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns" and novelist Norman Mailer likened their deaths to "traffic accidents"
*Senator Ted Kennedy claimed Abu Ghraib had simply "reopened under new management" when American troops took over from Saddam.
*Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was "lynched" on television by white liberals who despised a black conservative, while feminists rushed to defend the flimsy sexual harassment allegations of Anita Hill.
*Bill Clinton robbed children all over the world of their innocence with his tawdry Monica Lewinsky escapades and taught them how to perjure themselves under oath . . . while Hillary Clinton tacitly endorsed the whole sordid affair.
*Terry Schiavo starved to death because liberal judges refused to acknowledge her basic right to life
Thompson writes that "the single most important thing a genuinely liberal person can do now is walk away from the house that the left has built." The good news is that more and more people are doing just that.