For Those Who Think There Is No Need for an Alternative Left

I have been fielding a lot of criticism lately from the Alt Right crowd who say either that I am a conservative, that the Alt Left is really conservatism, or that there is no need for an Alt Left, as it can be subsumed into some sort of insane “left wing of the Alternative Right.” Actually I was called that for a while. I like the sound of it, but rationally it does not make sense as a label. I am also being told that there is no Alternative Left other than a few scattered immature people. Well, maybe that is so, as this is a new movement. However, I feel that many folks are Alt Left in their hearts and basic philosophies but they simply have not been exposed to the movement yet. I do not know. There are an awful lot of us who consider ourselves Leftists and liberals at heart who are bailing on the Cultural Left. We have been hanging around the Alt Right by default, but mostly it out and out repulses us. It often makes us want to vomit.

Mostly because we are not on the Right!

There is an ideological component. No matter how much they try to deny it, you cannot get around the fact that conservatism is a basic way of looking at life and the world. It is a deeply felt philosophy that cuts right to the heart of one’s soul. I have had a number of commenters pushing the basic philosophy of conservatism at me, and that made me realize that I am not a conservative at all in any way, shape or form. I disagree with conservatism at its very essence, at its core, at is essential character. If conservatism repulses me, I must be a man of the Left because I hate the Center. A centrist is someone who thinks the Republicans are too conservatives and the Democrats are too liberal! Forget it!

I am indeed a man of the Left, however, we are looking at an Old Left going back to WW2-early 1960’s, which also lines up with the liberal-Left politics of many working class Whites during this era. We can go back even further to the Old Left of the 1910’s-1930’s. I am quite at home with these people.

I am not a conservative and I will never be one as long as I live!