Moving to the Right

Robert Lindsay ask why leftists so often move to the right, but rightists so seldom move left HERE.  He concludes that it has to do with ideological commitment, but what about the ideological commitment of leftists?  My theory is different.  I say that the older you get, and the more experience you have with the real world, the harder it is to believe leftist ideology, because it gets both facts and logic wrong.  Now, there are cases where people have left conservatism and moved left, like Ed Schultz and Ariana Huffington, but in most such cases, we're talking about professional pundits who see such a switch as a money-making career move, not an actual ideological conversion on the personal level.

Real conservatism insists that you look at reality all the time. That's why neocons can't be considered actual conservatives.  They're mostly just an excrescence of the left, designed to confuse the people, and they've done a fine job of it so far. They're currently trying to co-opt the Tea Party movement, but that's a subject for another post.

There are plenty of stories out there about people who accepted the leftist memes of the MAG (media, academia, government) until they were shocked out of them by contact with reality. One of the most pervasive such memes is the weird self-contradictory notion that all people are basically equal (not just equal in moral worth, as in Christianity, or in rights, as in the US Constitution, but somehow intrinsically equal in potential), and, even worse, that all cultures are equal.  My experience is that almost everybody falls for the first these days, but there's at least some dissent on the latter.

Well, both are dead wrong and you have to abandon both facts and logic to support them.  Jim Goad describes his journey out of the stupidity of leftism HERE