Here is a current feature from The Nation 's website this week. Its reprinting of an embarrassing 1956 article by the late WEB DuBois provides the spectacle of a great mind gone ga ga. DuBois tells us that American leaders shouldn't lecture the Soviets and the Chinese because democracy is dead in America, Americans are warmongers, Communism is benevolent and progressive etc. etc. Note that though it is the end of the millennium, The Nation 's editors don't inform their readers of this fact, or of the fact that DuBois at this time was a pathetic servant of the Soviet empire, or of the events about to unfold. This is the leftist mentality on display.
Progressives are the army of the saints.
Those who oppose them are the party of Satan. Impervious to evidence, to history, to anything in this world that would challenge its faith and makes adherents humble and repentant, the leftist faith is one long continuous assault on the foundations of what is decent and good in the modern world. My action, however, had to be limited by the candidates' attitude toward Negroes. Of my adult life, I have spent twenty-three years living and teaching in the South, where my voting choice was not asked. I was disfranchised by law or administration.