Michael Rectenwald On What The Left Has Become

I was on the receiving end of a Twitter shit storm from hell last night, after O'Reilly tweeted my handle and interview, and after I suggested that if Milo Yiannopolous was a liberal, the same people hanging him symbolically now would be defending him zealously.

The result: Twitter Hell on earth.

I don't want to reproduce the putrid and vile character of this attack, but I will say this: Today's "Left" is rife with the most obscene, abusive, nasty, spiritually ugly and utterly unethical, hypocritical and fanatically horrible people I've ever encountered in my 58 years on earth.

When I was a left-liberal activist and founder of Citizens for Legitimate Government after the first GWB Bush "election," I routinely received hate email from right-wingers. They were routinely mean-spirited.

But now that I am a critic of the Left, nothing from the past comes close to the kind of personal invective, baseless insults, vilely degrading language and imagery that I was barraged with from these Leftists -- and all because I critiqued an IDEOLOGY and its mechanisms, and critiqued the hypocrisy of today's illiberal leftists.

The Left has utterly and completely lost its way and I no longer want anything to do with it. I include most milieus of Marxism as well, as these have resorted to the same tactics in conjunction with the others.

Good bye to all that. Good bye.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/michael.rectenwald/posts/10154171238987274

This eerily matches my perception of modern day "liberals" - a hateful group, as illiberal as anything you could imagine, displaying absolutely no desire to accept anything that strays from the orthodoxy and no restraint in the choice of means when it comes to going after perceived opposition.

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