By mrfahrenheit211 on Skatehive
As humans we have the ability to look at situations and change our minds about them. If for example we have been promoting Cause ‘A’ but new evidence emerges that undermines Cause ‘A’ then it’s right to back away from Cause ‘A’, apologise for being wrong, move on and try to put right the problems that support for Cause ‘A’ had caused. I’ve done this and walked that path myself. I used to be on the Left but gradually moved to the Centre Right after seeing the damage done to my own working class communities by Leftist politics. My departure from the Left was in stages, first I rejected the ‘revolutionary Left’ on the grounds that revolutions are sometimes the worst ways of bringing about change and can often create more problems than they solve. Then, over time, I rejected many other aspects of Leftism as the problems that Leftism created or exacerbated became more apparent to me. I’ve done and said some silly things when I was on the political Left, some of which I cringe at but others