Paglia is a writer like John Derbyshire and Christopher Hitchens, who I will read even when I don't completely agree with them. Many Left wingers hate her. Look at the comments made about her article and a few question why she is allowed to write. How dare she say anything good about the Republicans and Sarah Palin.
It is to these sort of Democrats and Leftists that Paglia directs this paragraph:
The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances.
The Democrats are intolerant like that NDPer I meet so many years ago who forever made me a Conservative. And the Leftists to this day keep up this intolerance, and in fact are becoming shriller and shriller.She sounds so sensible at times that it is hard to believe she will vote for Obama. Her reasoning: We need a new generation of leadership with fresh ideas and an expansive, cosmopolitan vision, is weak. As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, Obama's ideas are recycled from the 1960s. Obama's support is coming from the people she criticized in the above paragraph.
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