Today, Aug. 1, The Blaze published a wonderful piece by Joseph Mackinnon on the abandonment of his formerly Leftist views by David Marcus, long affiliated with Facebook and its decidedly “woke” founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Yesterday Marcus posted on X that he has crossed the Rubicon and will be voting Republican in the upcoming presidential election. Admitting that he, along with millions of other Americans, had fallen for the Left’s duplicitous claim that it was fundamentally motivated by concern for the common man, he says he was “shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats …… cared more about government power and control.”
Among the tactics which fed his disdain for the contemporary American Left, was its attempt to silence anyone who dared question the wisdom of the Covid lockdown and, even more incriminating, its brazenly biased refusal to admit that the pandemic may in fact have been the fault of the Chinese Communists. But what really left Marcus with no choice but to admit the absolute lack of integrity of his fellow Democrats, was their suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story as the 2020 election approached, a story which very well might have led to a Trump victory.
The next U.S. president, Marcus asserted, must be unequivocally pro-America, pro-Capitalism, pro-Meritocracy, pro-Israel, pro-Free Speech, pro-Legal Immigration, etc., etc.! The implication, of course, is that the Democrats no longer are so. His evolution, I would suggest, is a perfect example of what Socrates defined as Dialectic, Man’s capacity as a Rational Being to assess the multitude of options before him in search of what seems to make the most sense. It was their belief in our ability to do so that led the Enlightenment philosophers to endorse Democracy, a political system which put its faith in the Will of the People. The Irony of contemporary “liberalism” is that it no longer shares that faith, its demonization of Populism, its seeming assumption that most Whites are Racists, most Men Misogynists, etc., etc., leading it to the belief that it has the right to submit the masses to its will, even if that sacred quest entails the perpetration of endless lies. It was his disgust with those lies that led David Marcus to conclude that the Democratic Party is no longer truly democratic. Am I suggesting there are no liars on the Right? Of course not! But the “conservative” politicians and commentators I admire deal almost exclusively in simple common sense, their faith in the species leading them to believe that it is Reason rather than cynical manipulation, that is essential to the Democratic Process.