I’ll never forget where I was during the events of 9/11. It was chaotic and confusing that morning as I heard rumors of a plane hitting a building in New York while sitting in my high school classroom in New Jersey. Soon after the rumors were going around, it was confirmed as the teacher rolled out the television and we watched as the buildings were burning, not knowing why it happened or who did it.
It’s highly amusing that Trump was the most anti war of the recent presidents. But TDS is a hell of a condition: it apparently causes blindness. Seriously even worse than trump derangement was the unwarranted worship of saint Obama. All those white liberals so terribly proud to have a black man in the White House were terrified to find fault with any of his policies.
Because each party has to build an electoral coalition, both the antiwar and prowar elements of left-liberal spectrum politics are included in the coalition. so there is always dissonance. That is also true of the right: Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, etc share a party with warmongers, too. You saw this dissonance reflected in the presidency of Donald Trump. There were people on the right who objected to his missile attacks on Syria, for example.
Thanks for your article, sir! Seems the "anti-war left" has moved. There does exist an anti-war right, if even a modest portion of the conservatives. Similarly, being anti-establishment was once firmly in the left's arena, but this has solidly changed sides, with the "liberal" left calling for censorship, bending the knee to medical mandates and lockdowns, and embracing the banking industry (carbon marketing).
My perspective is as one who for 45 straight [voting age] years, up until spring of 2020, voted solidly progressive blue. But no longer for me, now that a curtain has been pulled aside that kept me from seeing just how illiberal and committed to authoritarianism my former politics were at their heart.
What Happened to the Anti-War Left?
It’s highly amusing that Trump was the most anti war of the recent presidents. But TDS is a hell of a condition: it apparently causes blindness. Seriously even worse than trump derangement was the unwarranted worship of saint Obama. All those white liberals so terribly proud to have a black man in the White House were terrified to find fault with any of his policies.
Because each party has to build an electoral coalition, both the antiwar and prowar elements of left-liberal spectrum politics are included in the coalition. so there is always dissonance. That is also true of the right: Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul, etc share a party with warmongers, too. You saw this dissonance reflected in the presidency of Donald Trump. There were people on the right who objected to his missile attacks on Syria, for example.
Well said, as a Peacemaker my whole life I have been shocked to see the left shout for war. Mahalo.🌺
Thanks for your article, sir! Seems the "anti-war left" has moved. There does exist an anti-war right, if even a modest portion of the conservatives. Similarly, being anti-establishment was once firmly in the left's arena, but this has solidly changed sides, with the "liberal" left calling for censorship, bending the knee to medical mandates and lockdowns, and embracing the banking industry (carbon marketing).
My perspective is as one who for 45 straight [voting age] years, up until spring of 2020, voted solidly progressive blue. But no longer for me, now that a curtain has been pulled aside that kept me from seeing just how illiberal and committed to authoritarianism my former politics were at their heart.