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'''O'Sullivan’s First Law''' describes the drift of many [[politician]]s, leaders, and organizations. It was first coined by John O'Sullivan in 1989.
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'''O'Sullivan’s First Law''' describes the leftward drift of many [[politician]]s, leaders, and organizations. First coined by John O'Sullivan in 1989, it states: "All organizations that are not actually [[right-wing]] will over time become [[left-wing]]."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030707094659/https://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-jos062603.asp  O’Sullivan’s First Law], [[National Review]]</ref>
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It states that "All organizations that are not actually [[right-wing]] will over time become [[left-wing]]."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030707094659/https://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-jos062603.asp  O’Sullivan’s First Law], [[National Review]]</ref>
 
  
 
==Examples==
 
==Examples==

Revision as of 23:32, May 16, 2019

O'Sullivan’s First Law describes the leftward drift of many politicians, leaders, and organizations. First coined by John O'Sullivan in 1989, it states: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."[1]

Examples

  • The Drudge Report's leftward shift.[2] To some extent, also to that of Fox News[3] and the National Review.[4]
  • Compromising Christian colleges, including Wheaton College, that first compromised on Biblical inerrancy and evolution, then increasingly on other issues (such as abortion,[5] homosexuality, feminism, and Islam). Azusa Pacific University also has drifted far from its Christian roots.[6]
  • The many token conservatives who originally held conservative positions but shifted sharply to the Left
  • Republican politicians frequently cave on political issues and accept the left-wing's positions, whether it be on climate change,[7] ObamaCare, immigration, or some other issue. When Alabama enacted a ban on most types of abortion, many establishment Republican politicians claimed it "went too far" despite it still allowing abortion in several cases.[8]
  • European establishment conservatives, who eventually shifted sharply to the Left, supporting Europhile, pro-mass migration, and anti-Christian policies
  • The Conservative Political Action Conference's leftward drift, marginalizing social conservatives and pro-gun activists, among other conservatives, while caving to the homosexual agenda
  • Pat Robertson's shift to the Left on several issues, including abortion, gun control, climate change, and his support for liberal Republican Rudy Giuliani in 2008
  • The Boy Scouts of America's shift to the left on social issues such as homosexuality and gender. Other Christian organizations have experienced a similar shift.[9]
  • The media, big business, and the military establishment once were generally conservative though liberal thinking now predominates them
  • Positions that once lay in the mainstream of society only a few years previously are being increasingly labeled as "far-right" or "ultra-right."[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ O’Sullivan’s First Law, National Review
  2. ↑ Duke, Selwyn (January 17, 2018). “Whatfinger News”: What the Drudge Report Was Meant to Be. The New American. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Nolte, John (November 19, 2018). Did Fox News Cost the GOP Orange County? Breitbart News. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Byas, Steve (January 18, 2019). National Review Continues to be a Trojan Horse Inside the Gates of Conservatism. The New American. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ Bomberger, Ryan (December 6, 2018). I went to Wheaton to talk abortion. The student gov’t flipped out. LifeSiteNews. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ Newman, Alex (December 12, 2018). Even Christian Colleges Falling to Anti-Christian Extremism. The New American. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ Duke, Selwyn (March 6, 2019). Empowering Socialism: Some Republicans Caving on Climate Change. The New American. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
  8. ↑ Multiple references:
  9. ↑ Multiple references:
  10. ↑ Williams, Thomas D. (June 24, 2018). Williams: For the Establishment, Anything Not Them Is ‘Far Right’. Breitbart News. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ Duke, Selwyn (December 10, 2018). Another Supposed “Far Right” Party Rises in Europe. The New American. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
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