Explaining the Left, Part VI: Do Leftists Believe What They Say?
"Truth is not
a left-wing value.
I first
discovered this as a graduate student studying the Soviet Union and left-wing
ideologies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University School of
International Affairs. Everything I have learned since has confirmed this view.
Individuals
on both the left and right lie. Individuals on both the left and right tell the
truth. And liberalism, unlike leftism, does value truth. But the further left
one goes, the more one enters the world of the lie."