Feeling my Leftish-ness ( DeGroot article )

After reading Gerard J. DeGroot's  article " Feeling My American-ness "

    in the Christian Science Monitor, I 'm feeling : "I'm a liberal and the

    British left is perking me up ".

                But he is right about a number of things - like this dulled

    sense of EVIL on the left. They  no longer have the long view of history,

    mindlessly scorn Western Civilization and foolishly idealize the oppressed.

              I wish George Orwell were alive to comment on the present world

    crisis.  Unlike many of my comrades on the left , Orwell had  the gift of

    instantly recognizing HUMBUG . Also too many leftists have become  rather

    pretentious  and humorless in not recognizing the Absurd, the  utter

    indifference of the Universe to the human heart.

                   Let's try to make this a better world - or at least a less

    horrible one. But let us not pretend like old fashioned Marxists that the

    cosmos is on our side.

                  And thank God for left-wing Jews. They are the salt of the

    earth.