The Well-Meaning Ethnocentrism of the Left

Don't ask me why, but I regularly receive email petitions from change.org, the left-wing activist organization which is listed in the dictionary as an antonym to the word "thoughtful".  Monitoring the organization's communiques, I believe, will give me advanced notice when liberal overreach means it's time to start running for the hills again.  But enough fun; I agree strongly with the vast majority of change.org's positions: immigrant rights, gay rights, the rights of animals, sustainable farming practices, environmental protection, ending the drug war, reducing America's prison population, etc. it's their methodology which I find repulsive: "activism". 

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