Peasons I’m glad to be a leftwinger these days is that I don’t have to be nearly as embarrassed about the people on my side. It used to be, for example, that a lot of leftwingers were whiny complainers. There are still some, but whining is now far more prevalent on the right. Worst of all are ex-lefties like David Horowitz, who’ve kept their whining style even as they’ve reversed their political views. But there are plenty of others
The big whine is, of course, the continuous complaints about media bias. But lately there has been added a form of right-wing political correctness, in which rightwingers try to silence critics by crying religious persecution. An example I saw recently was the head of the ,
Australian Family Association, writing in the Age. He said ” Today, when moral and ethical debates are being waged, we constantly hear voices telling us that the church, or religious people, should keep their personal convictions to themselves.
The latest example is Terry Monagle’s article, The new Catholic ascendancy”,

And here’s what Monagleactually wrote about the new Catholic ascendancy
“Admirably, and unlike Catholic conservatives of a previous era, they are unafraid of debate and of staking their political careers around a set of ideas they care about. They draw connections between areas of private morality and public policy that have been ignored.”

Monagle went on to argue that the Catholic right was wrong and dangerous, but he made no suggestion they should keep quiet.