I Left the Left
The Current Anti-War Rhetoric on Iran Echoes the Sludge of America’s 1930s Nazi Movement
I am a refugee from the Democrat Party, having walked away on November 6, 2024. Now, you can spare me “your tired, your poor, and your huddled masses” act. And a pox on those who sneak into America illegally and get spoon-fed, protection, and cash from corrupt Democrats.
My parents endured major hardships to get here legally.
Goose. Gander. Period.
Every election since turning eighteen, I’ve voted for the damn Dems down the ballot like a good soldier. Historically, Jews and Blacks have been loyal comrades—true blue Democrats—until now. Many of us in the #WalkAway movement have seen through the flowery rhetoric—blowing bubbles up our minority butts and bragging about how well they represent “We the People.”
The level of betrayal I felt from the Dems after the recent tragic POTUS loss—especially by the weak turnout by the women using Gaza as an excuse. This made one thing abundantly clear: the 2017 Women’s March movement is D.O.A., particularly when you consider how women are treated under Islamist regimes. And how quickly they forgot protesting and shaving their heads in solidarity with the women of Iran for the senseless murder of Mahsa Amini. Wait, does that sign say, “Free Iran?” Shame on you.
Lest we forget the tragic “Queers for Palestine,” who unwittingly champion a cause and the people who would gladly throw them off a roof.
The extent of hypocritical ignorance is impossible to ignore. Talk about D.O.A.
Y’all have “left” me no choice but to say, “Toodles, girls.”
The left—theoretically—stood for civil rights, protecting minorities, and defending democratic values—the moral imperative that shaped my politics for most of my life—until now.
Today, the new Socialist Democrat leftists are no better than the Tea Baggers of the aughts.
Before the United States entered World War II, many Americans argued that the country should stay out of foreign conflicts. There was a dark antisemitic groundswell bubbling up trying to serve the authoritarian regimes abroad.
Fascism in America was already festering by the 1920s, the same decade Mein Kampf emerged from Nazi Germany. Hitler and his legal theorists even looked to America’s eugenics movement and Jim Crow laws when crafting their own racial policies. In the United States, the ideology often wrapped itself in patriotic language and calls to stay out of foreign wars.
MS NOW bloviator, Rachel Maddow explored this history in her podcast series Ultra, documenting how fascist sympathizers and pro-Nazi movements operated inside the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s. The German American Bund openly promoted authoritarian ideology while cloaking itself in patriotic rhetoric.
This Nazi phenomenon wasn’t limited to the United States and Germany. In England during the 1930s, the Blackshirts—led by Oswald Mosley—marched under the banner of the British Union of Fascists.
They warned against foreign entanglements.
They framed democratic allies as the villains.
And they insisted confronting authoritarian regimes abroad was not their country’s responsibility.
Look and sound familiar? Turn on CNN. Read The New York Times. Scroll through social media. Echoes of those same arguments can be heard today, as senseless debates online are only infuriating the stupids.
The left openly chanting “Death to America,” excusing antisemitism, and treating democratic allies as enemies while giving moral cover to authoritarian regimes must be stopped dead in their tracks. This isn’t peace activism—it’s asking for trouble.
Meanwhile, the far-right is spewing nonsense, questioning Christian Zionists’ loyalties on their well-funded social platforms, which enables lost youth—aka losers—to feel embraced and heard.
All this moral confusion is born of propaganda at best—and something far darker at worst. Frankly, I’m leaning toward far worse, and I’ll be damned if I won’t act up, fight back, kick ass.
So now do you see why I left the left?
[SIDEBAR] By the way, I’m loving my new chosen family: the fabulous, politically homeless silent majority. We’re the coolest, most underrepresented independent-minded people you’ll ever meet who still have working brains.
If you haven’t read or listened to my book, please do.
Not impressed by a person who wants to watch America burn. The issue in America is top to bottom not left to right. Find a political group that supports that we see the right doesn’t and as a bottom of the left we need help, may as well see if the dems can fix it. At least we know they have every time in the past. Good riddance to quitters like you. Don’t send me ads for crap books. I’ve learned my history well you have it very twisted.
Something darker is what I see, too. The politically homeless group is where I find myself, too.
Democrats will not fix a thing, despite what the other commenters claim. I’ve waited two and a half years for them to correct the record on the various libels circulating on the left -nothing. Two and a half years for them to condemn antizionism as the eliminationist hate movement it is - nothing.
Republicans aren’t my answer either, but they’re a safer bet at the moment.
I am hoping for something to come along to organize the politically homeless and offer us sane candidates who know Jews aren’t white settler-colonists, who don’t advocate for the destruction of existing democratic states, who tell the truth - you know, a real revolution.