Writers Block?

I think I've had writers block, maybe three or four times in the last ten years and it was all due to extreme strain over personal issues that had nothing to do with what I write about. 

I've found that if you've got it, go look at what they are saying at Alternet, Salon, Religion Dispatches, The Nation, etc. and you'll soon run into something that you can write about.  You've got to lose your fear of criticizing people you used to revere.  I'll never forget the day I realized that Katha Pollitt was frequently full of soup - as the polite people in my family say.  

The topic of how, why and what the left got wrong, my chosen theme when I began almost ten years ago, is a never ending topic.  When you go back and read what the would-be lefties we're supposed to revere said and did, it's amazing what a load of crap we were sold about them.  Go look at what the Communists of various denominations were saying, look at what the free-speech industry was saying and still says.  The topic of pseudo-liberalism, pseudo-liberal libertarianism is a never ending source of inspiration.   The history of atheist, would-be leftism is like a catalog of counter-productive assertions and the basic undermining of the moral prerequisite for liberalism to be valid.   Frequently, as in the adoration of Nietzsche by such folk as Emma Goldman,  you find that that left and the farthest of the far right are singing from the same hymnal. 

Worst of all, as the topic of my post yesterday proves, the play-left has learned not a single thing in the past century of massive folly on the left.   It's always topical.  

After that there is the topic of what can be done better, which is pretty much everything.   If you're still blocked from writing about it, you should give up and shut your blog down.  You're probably emotionally unable to look the reality of would-be leftist failure straight on and to risk hurting the feelings of pseudo-lefties who are in great need of having their feelings hurt.  Maybe your problem is you're not the great big lefty you want to pretend you are.  It's hard to pretend to be what you're not.