Woman’s “Top 10 Reasons I Am No Longer A Leftist” Goes Viral

The Federalist Papers

Dr. Danusha V. Goska was a lifelong liberal who “could not conceive of ever being anything but a leftist.”Her fantastic column, “Top Ten Reasons I Am No Longer  a Leftist,” details how and why her philosophies changed.

. . . "How far left was I? So far left my beloved uncle was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party in a Communist country. When I returned to his Slovak village to buy him a mass card, the priest refused to sell me one. So far left that a self-identified terrorist proposed marriage to me. So far left I was a two-time Peace Corps volunteer and I have a degree from UC Berkeley. So far left that my Teamster mother used to tell anyone who would listen that she voted for Gus Hall, Communist Party chairman, for president. I wore a button saying “Eat the Rich.” To me it wasn’t a metaphor.

"I voted Republican in the last presidential election.

"Below are the top ten reasons I am no longer a leftist. This is not a rigorous comparison of theories. This list is idiosyncratic, impressionistic, and intuitive. It’s an accounting of the milestones on my herky-jerky journey." . . .

Happy Birthday, America

Independence Forever: Why America Celebrates the Fourth of July  . . . "As a practical matter, the Declaration of Independence publicly announced to the world the unanimous decision of the American colonies to declare themselves free and independent states, absolved from any allegiance to Great Britain. But its greater meaning-then as well as now-is as a statement of the conditions of legitimate political authority and the proper ends of government, and its proclamation of a new ground of political rule in the sovereignty of the people. "If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence," wrote the great historian Samuel Eliot Morrison, "it would have been worthwhile.' " . . .  
And, sadly:

One charge that Jefferson had included, but Congress removed, was that the king had "waged cruel war against human nature" by introducing slavery and allowing the slave trade into the American colonies. A few delegates were unwilling to acknowledge that slavery violated the "most sacred rights of life and liberty," and the passage was dropped for the sake of unanimity. Thus was foreshadowed the central debate of the American Civil War, which Abraham Lincoln saw as a test to determine whether a nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal" could long endure. . .

 Lincoln's vital understanding of July 4th  "British prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously once said, "Europe was created by history.  America was created by philosophy."  Nearly all European nations trace their beginning to a common ethnic kinship or a cultural characteristic, but America was created by exiles united in voluntary assent to shared political beliefs.  That's why British writer G.K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time and remarked that America was "a nation with the soul of a church" – not because of its religiosity, but because of a common creed enshrined in "sacred texts" of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution." . . .

Obama warns Americans about too much patriotism — on July 4th weekend!  Sorry. I must have got carried away. TD

Obama’s Socialist Housing Projects Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Out of his movement came the Furthering Fair Housing Act. HUD mapped every neighborhood in the country. At the same time, he administration established massive databases of Americans by race, class, and income. The goal of all this is to force people to live according to the government ideal of what a neighborhood should look like.

S. Noble  "If the left has their way, Socialist, crime-ridden housing projects will end up in every neighborhood in the nation.

"The social engineers are pushing for low-income housing in rich and middle class neighborhoods. The movement begun by Barack Obama continues to gain steam on the left. The NY Times had a hit piece out this week. According to them, anyone who doesn’t think it’s a good idea is a racist.

"Former Missouri state Representative Don Calloway went on Monday with Tucker Carlson to argue for redistribution of public housing in America.

. . . "The leftist Democratic Party today is no longer liberal. These people want to tell you what to eat, to drink, to smoke, to wear, what to watch on the news, and they want to tell you where to live.

"It’s a nationalization of the housing sector with housing projects known for crime put into every neighborhood where people move to get away from exactly that." . . .