Facing the Beast: A 2023 Book by Naomi Wolf
I recently read a 2023 book that was superbly inspiring: Facing the Beast, by Naomi Wolf.
Like me, she was formerly on the far political Left. Unlike me, she was an internationally famous, best-selling author. Her journey is similar to mine – and hopefully a journey many others on the “classical” Left have been on in recent years due to the zombie-like, cult-like insanity that has gripped the political Left over the past decade or so.
Like me, she has been blasted, disparaged, and ostracized by many of her former leftwing “friends” who turned out to be closet authoritarian. Sheep who were in the past only paying lip service to free speech, liberty, and justice for all. In many of the early chapters, she chronicles the totalitarian madness of the COVID restrictions and expresses shock regarding the close-mindedness of many who claimed to be open-minded, freedom-loving, and science-minded in the past.
Funny how quickly the political Left can descend into witch-hunting, mind-virus mob behavior.
‘Before’ the Left is the term Wolf uses to describe the previous classical political Left, when the subculture that used to stand for “human rights, freedom of speech, real science, critical thinking, and skepticism about Big Government and Big Corporations, let alone about their merger, and that used to fight against discrimination and inequality.” Today, as Wolf points out, the ‘After’ the Left has fallen into “a trance in which that same group became champions of censorship, and of a two-tiered society in which some people, as the pigs declared in Animal Farm, are ‘more equal’ than others; and fell prey to magical thinking and cultlike behavior.” Facing the Beast, pg. 1
Her former “friends” and the media outlets that published her work in the past are now engaged in a 24/7 campaign to smear what they now consider to be a cult member who has now escaped the cult. They are calling Wolf a “Trumper” and a “crackpot conspiracy theorist” and an “anti-vaxxer.”
Wolf, very recently a hero of the Left, is now shunned and never invited to any of the social gatherings she formerly was celebrated for attending. A chilling story, as it tracks what we’ve read about “dissidents” in the Soviet Union and China.
Ironically, given her (and my) former views, she is now finding a lot of fellowship and friendship and civility in her new friendships with Republicans.
A list of celebrities, athletes, and elected officials who have left the Democratic Party and today’s political Left:
1. Naomi Wolf
2. Dave Rubin
3. Michael Schellenberger
4. Tulsi Gabbard
5. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
6. Isaiah Washington
7. Charleston Heston
8. Frank Sinatra
9. Rob Schneider
10. Amber Rose
11. James Woods
12. Chuck Norris
13. Kanye West
14. Dennis Miller
15. Jack Brewer
16. Billy Ray Cyrus
17. Chelsea Handler
18. Alan Dershowitz
19. Brandon Straka
20. Kyrsten Sinema
21. Jeff Van Drew
Ben Carson
Larry Elder
Wendell Wilkie
John Roosevelt
John Tower
Henry Hyde
Claude Kirk
Ronald Reagan
Strom Thurmond
Jesse Helms
Trent Lott
John Connally
Michele Bachmann
Mike Pence
Condoleezza Rice
Donald Trump
Phil Gramm
Bob Martinez
Jeane Kirkpatrick
William Bennett
Buddy Roemer
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ivanka Trump
Rick Perry
Michael Bloomberg
Jimmy Dore
Maye Musk
Joe Rogan
The following essays are a sampling of my recent thoughts on the November 2024 Presidential elections
Silent No More: Leaving the Woke Cult
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Trump’s Virtues and Accomplishments
[Click here for my essay]
Joe Biden is the Worst President in US History
[Click here for my essay]
Why I Am Proudly Voting Trump/Vance in November 2024
[Click here for my essay]
The State of Politics in the US Today
[Click here for my essay]
Why I Left the Democratic Party and the Political Left
[Click here for my essay]
American Institutions Have Now Become an Authoritarian Left-Wing Monoculture
[Click here for my essay]
Responding to a Facebook Friend Who Claimed I Sounded Mentally Unwell
[Click here for my essay]
Which Party is the Biggest Threat to Democracy, Freedom, and Rights?
[Click here for my essay]
Puppet Politics
[Click here for my essay]
Democrats Are Anti-Woman and Anti-Black
[Click here for my essay]
The Toxic, Mindless Brew
[Click here for my essay]
Bidengate
[Click here for my essay]
Freedom of Speech in the Twenty-First Century
[Click here for my essay]
The New Pravda is Today’s American Media
[Click here for my essay]
The Shameless Double Standards of the Democratic Party Hypocrites
[Click here for my essay]
The Democratic Party Assault on Democracy, Quality of Life, Civic Rights, and Economic Health
[Click here for my essay]
The Party Line Game of the Democratic Party
[Click here for my essay]
The Insanity and Divisiveness of the Democratic Party
[Click here for my essay]
What Are the Leading Obstacles for Advancement by Black America?
[Click here for my essay]
Republicans Get It Right in Many Ways
[Click here for my essay]
Republicans Better Than Democrats on a Long List of Issues
[Click here for my essay]
Why I Left the Democratic Party
[Click here for my essay]
Evolution of My Political Views
[Click here for my essay]
Walking Away from the Democratic Party
[Click here for my essay]
The Democratic Party Is Far More Divisive Than the Republican Party
[Click here for my essay]
Why I Walked Away From the Democratic Party
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Insane Democrats
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Examples of Democrats Being Anti-Science
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The Inversion of the Democratic Party
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Profoundly Influential Books Dom Nozzi Has Read
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