From Jay Nordlinger Impromptus.

I like reading this monthly (I believe) feature on National Review Online.  Here is the link  to the latest impromptus.  Nordlinger, like me, was a leftie in his younger days.  I quote:

And I am reminded of one of the reasons I fled the Left, many years ago: Personally, they were so mean — so nasty, so indecent. So full of mockery, ridicule, and scorn. I had to ask, “If the Left is the party of love and compassion, how come so many of them are such a**holes?”

I switched to the right because they made an intellectual and humane case for their creed.  The fact that they are assholes never really dawned on me till I admitted my switch.