I agree wholeheartedly with this:
The left is becoming, more and more, a difficult place to occupy. You say you're a liberal? But you don't give to charity every month, you haven't marched in support of Tibet, you're white and you don't have Muslim friends? You've never had an abortion and you didn't protest against the occupation of Iraq? Your parents paid for your education and you took a gap year that didn't involve children in Africa? You didn't take a term out of Manchester University to learn Arabic in the West Bank? You've chosen a career that guarantees upward mobility, a good wage and hence security for you and your family, but does absolutely sod all for the rest of the world? You went on holiday to the US? But you recycle, buy organic, read The Guardian, keep informed of international news and foster deprived kids from south London? Hmm. I'm sorry, but you haven't ticked enough boxes. Over to bar right. The exclusive club liberal is not accepting any more applications for membership in the foreseeable future.
[…] As much as my views and beliefs place me on the left of the political spectrum, I have to say that I feel alienated by the left because of its disingenuous adherence to an unwritten code of hypocritical correctness, and its criteria for "entry" based on ideological puritanism.
The left whether it is British, American or French is so convinced of its own superiority and goodness that it has become lazy intellectually and ideologically because it is afraid to face its own contradictions and to at least recognized that purity and fanatical absoluteness may not be good things. It is for this reason that to be a lefty nowadays and to be content, one has to accept to stop thinking to avoid being undermined by the complexities of human nature and the absurdities of existence.
