We are going to need a lot more awakening to change the course of our country, but each story I read like this warms my heart to know that critical thinking is not completely dead. Below is an excerpt from Tablet Magazine about someone deeply entrenched and educated into the leftist groupthink, who has awakened and offers support to others going through a similar ‘turn’.
When “the left” becomes the party of wealthy elites and state security agencies who preach racial division, state censorship, contempt for ordinary citizens and for the U.S. Constitution, and telling people what to do and think at every turn, then that’s the side you are on, if you are “on the left”—those are the policies and beliefs you stand for and have to defend. It doesn’t matter what good people “on the left” believed and did 60 or 70 years ago. Those people are dead now, mostly. They don’t define “the left” anymore than Abraham Lincoln defines the modern-day Republican Party or Jimi Hendrix defines Nickelback. —————Liel Leibovitz
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-turn-liel-leibovitz