One reason I left the Left was my growing awareness that most of our motivational myths were exaggerations, if not outright lies:
“Roe” of Roe v. Wade hadn’t been raped after all; no one died at Three Mile Island; “progressive” Cuba was a racist, homophobic hell hole; the Kennedys were assassinated by leftists, not “right wingers”; Alger Hiss was guilty, and so were the Rosenbergs and Sacco & Vanzetti…
If our cause is so righteous, I mused, why do we have to invent martyrs and fudge our facts? I never got more than a smirk for an answer.
I guess the truth is: as long as a complicit mainstream media refuses to expose these fake “hate crimes” for what they really are, the tactic of lying continues to “work” for the Left.
In other words, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it — or better yet: break it yourself…
(Keep reading my latest post at David Horowitz’s NewsReal blog…)
