Leaving the Left

Posted May 25, 2005, 11:57 a.m.

I saw this on Sunday, and haven’t gotten around to mentioning it until today. I thought I’d let a [former?] liberal explain my feelings about the so-called ‘progressives’ that seem to have completely lost their bearings in this country. Give it a read; Keith Thompson says it better than I can (although I’m about to say it anyway).

Many say that the country is ‘moving right’—some have said the same about me as my views fall more and more in line with the ‘conservatives’—but that’s not the case at all. The Republican Party is largely run by moderates today (pro-immigration, pro-equality, and generally quite progressive as compared to their predecessors), while the Democrats ramble on about racial quotas and how spreading freedom and prosperity is somehow bad.

Leaving the left (San Francisco Chronicle).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

It will generally be expedient for a man who has served four years in congress to return home, mix with the people, and reside some time with them.

As a rule, we can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face.

But the mere fact that social order reigns to some degree does not mean that a given society has come to explicitly understand its own behavior, its own moral code.

The purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clause was not to protect the state (or the people) from religion, but to protect religion from the state. . . .

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that . . . the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to . . . excite their most violent conflicts.

We are all agreed, whether we be Americans of the first or of the seventh generation on this soil, that is not desirable to receive more immigrants than can reasonably be assured of bettering their condition by coming here.

Wheresoever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church.

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: ‘Is it true in and for itself?’

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

It is through strife, or the readiness for strife, that a nation must win greatness.

A liberal is a conservative who hasn’t been mugged yet.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

People who understand economics can more easily spot hoaxes because money drives human behavior in predictable ways.

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

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