Ynet has a great article on the differences between modern leftism and the views of the left less then a hundred years ago, and how the right has taken up the call to help the oppressed of the world despite traditional Conservative views of non-entanglement. Read the whole thing but if you’re pressed for time here’s the gist of it:

“The reversal of world views on which the battles of the last century revolved has been abandoned in every global arena. For example, the traditional Left denied the importance of nations and states and hoped for a world void of barriers, yet it is currently opposing globalization and seeking to strengthen the power of these states, and in the spirit of multicultural concepts it recognizes their most important values.

Enslavement of women in Afghanistan within the framework of an oppressive regime – of the worst type in history – did not prompt the Leftist movements in the West to take a single step towards protesting in the squares. The Leftist movements are not even shocked by the genocide in Darfur and are not calling on their governments to penalize the Khartoum government.

In the mythology of the global Left, the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939 was considered a shining example of assisting the oppressed. The good were on its side, it was written about the volunteers of the International Brigade. Had such a war erupted in our times, the global Left would have demonstrated in favor of the fascists. “

Food for thought, no? h/t E.U. Referendum