The Coming of the Fourth Reich?
Much has been made of the “unholy alliance” between the imperial left and a triumphalist Islam in advancing the cause of the modern totalitarian project. The left wants to see a top-down socialist utopia supplant the international order as we know it and militant Islam is determined to impose a Shariate upon the world. Indeed, as Norwegian scholar Hege Storhaug documents in But the Greatest of These Is Freedom, there is a brisk migration “from left-wing totalitarianism to religio-political totalitarianism.” The totalitarian mind is identical with itself, so to speak, differing only in the accidental content of its doctrines.
No less important, however, than this deep symbiosis between superficially implausible collaborators is the potent tutorial relationship that has been established between the patricians of the left and the emancipated youth of the contemporary West. Such an alliance, conducted under the aegis of the so-called “liberal” academy, is equally unholy. As with the German universities of the 1930s, modern universities throughout the “free world” have become factories of political indoctrination in which history is reinterpreted as a chronicle of infamy and the young are conscripted into the army of those who promise the advent of a golden millennium.
Palpably, the democratic West is becoming less democratic by the day. The rewriting of history linked with the virulent assault against the palladium of traditional liberalism — now better known as conservatism — has captivated the sensibility of the West and a resurgent authoritarianism once again marches into the future. The venerable impulse to restructure the world along the lines of a theoretical blueprint for universal salvation may periodically sink into abeyance, but it always re-emerges in one form or another, whether theocratic or secular. Today the movement has assumed massive proportions, uniting disparate cultures once thought to be immiscible and, as we have noted, even resolving the immemorial conflict between the generations.
The cultural stereotype of youth rebelling against the progenitor generation no longer holds, at least not in the West. Instead, what we are observing is the tightening bond between the clichéd antagonists of old. The generation of the Sixties, controlling the levers of power, has embarked on an intensive recruiting campaign among its epigones to ensure the eventual victory of what we might call the Fourth Reich, a grim collectivist world governed by the presumably enlightened benefactors of all mankind. I am not referring here to Robert Van Kampen’s biblical fantasy in his novel The Fourth Reich or to Jim Marr’s thesis of the rise of Nazi-oriented secret societies and corporations in his similarly titled book, a belief that in my estimation smacks rather more of conspiracism than of fact. I have in mind the undoubted rapprochement between two separate temporal cohorts in the pursuit of a grand political design, with the modern university as the crucible in which the fusion occurs.
This latter development, the melding of the generations into a bichronic demographic, is the key to the program adopted by the utopian left in taking command of the institutions of learning. Ideas concocted in the insulated laboratories of the ivory tower and powered by an amorphous longing for a “we are the world” paradise predicated on the dissolution of the rigors of educated thought have become the reigning ideology of the era. Roger Scruton in Modern Culture reminds us of the two disreputable options that tempt the meretricious prof: “pretend to the students that pop culture is the same [as high culture], and join them in their blithe distractions; or show the students how to deconstruct their heritage, and reassure them that it is a burden that they have done well to discard.”
A new Jacksonianism has prevailed. The staunch defender of the democratic West Henry Jackson, whom Daniel Patrick Moynihan, citing a Judaic tradition, called one of the 36 just men who sustain human existence, has given way to the self-indulgent and characterless Michael Jackson, who co-wrote the lyrics to “We Are the World.” And it is a world whose central and defining ideals, properly speaking, must be placed in inverted commas: “equality,” “peace,” “democracy,” “freedom,” “individualism,” “tolerance” now connote the opposite of their original intent. The perversion of language plainly goes hand in hand with the distortion of the historical record and the projection of an oracular depravity upon the political future.
These we-are-the-worlders are to be found everywhere among us, especially among the young enamored of revolutionary “heroes,” self-proclaimed “martyrs,” “epic” but largely fictive personalities, “valiant” jihadists, all professing to be fighting for liberty and justice and representing an infallible enticement to the inchoate sensibilities of those who rush to join what they conceive as the “great struggle” for the redemption of humanity.
Yet it is not a “great struggle.” It is a great debauch relying on the standard tropes of intellectual evasion — the natural goodness of man corrupted by institutional constructs, the colonial aggression of a guilty West, and the Jewish manipulation of world finance and thirst for world domination. (Case in point: The University of Toronto, where the scandalous Israel Apartheid Week originated, has just renewed the contract of a professor who instigated a faculty “Jew count” in support of students who protested against “old Jews because they are rich.”) So it goes. And this historical aberration may finally succeed in achieving its aims, thanks to the wholesale seduction of the rising generation, the phalanxes of the young globally inducted into the service of a ruinous ideological regime.
Clearly, there is a camelopard of factors that would explain the demonstrable decline in the ability to think critically and to stoutly resist the subversion of the mind: the misguided self-esteem movement that robs accomplishment of its meaning, the exiguous home environment, the pejorative consequences of the entitlement industry, the spread of techno-digital distractions and Netware compulsions. But the degenerate academy functioning as a propaganda mill is surely paramount. “The methods of education are extremely important,” writes Erich Fromm in Escape from Freedom, “in so far as they are mechanisms by which the individual is molded into the required shape.”
This is well understood by the current crop of sociology, political science, Middle East studies, and liberal arts professors who have applied their version of the old Jesuit maxim, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.” They are the exemplars of what Thomas Sowell in A Conflict of Visions calls the “unconstrained vision” of human nature, which urges “dramatic solutions” rather than “prudent trade-offs [for] promoting social improvement.” Many of these pedagogic Gauleiters, aware of their professional sway and committed to the destructive romance of a post-historical organon among the peoples of the world, have no compunction in forcing this “vision” upon their charges.
And they are extremely effective in realizing their objective. Youth, of course, is easily solicited and mobilized by unscrupulous elders who take advantage of the simplistic, binomial view of the world, coupled with undifferentiated energy seeking an outlet, which characterizes this volatile constituency. We were all there once, at least for a time, before some of us providentially came to our senses. But many have remained and grown grizzled in an ongoing effort to enlist the impressionable to the cause of a specious humanitarianism. And the young almost invariably fall for it. As their academic “handlers” are well aware, their minds are always open to being closed.
Pharaoh Hussein is not a lamed-vovnik, he’s a vov-vov-vov-nik…
What is this Fourth Reich stuff? Nazism is difficult to categorize, and whether you decide it was 49% Rightist and 51% Leftist, or vice versa, it is no example of anything going on today. WW II was in essence a war between National Socialism and International Socialism. International Socialism is pure Leftism. It’s goal is the destruction of natural society. Every Leftist (usually a social misfit, biologically or psychologically) aims to destroy natural human society. Leftism can be likened to religious heresies and millenarian movements, but true Leftism began with the Enlightenment and the Enlightenment’s offspring — the French revolution. The twin pillars of Leftism are atheism and the rejection of Human Nature. The denial of any innate Human Nature leads Leftists to imagine that they can remodel human beings in any way they wish by manipulating his environment — man is born a ‘blank slate’. To accomplish this change, they must first destroy all excisting society: religion, mythology, political arrangements, economies, art, education. In this effort, they have a toolbox from which they can pull environmentalism, socialism, animal rights, feminism, atheism, abortion, Libertarianism, anarchism, etc. All different tools with which to attack their society’s foundations. The prototypical Leftists are the Jews, who are outsiders in every society except Israel’s. Rightism basically is the opposition to Leftism. Rightists want to maintain traditional, natural, human societies. Generally, Rightists simply oppose Leftist programs. Nazis were not Leftists, because they wished to support and strengthen German society. They were like Leftists in wishing to impose a different society than actually existed. It was their fantasy of a past German culture. They don’t really fit either paradigm. If you want to contrast pure Left and Right, take the Khmer Rouge or Mao’s China versus Franco’s Spain or Mussolini’s Italy. America was founded by men who thought in terms of the Enlightenment but operated in a natural society. This worked because their thoughts were limited to the Constitution, which only applied to the Federal govt. The States had the effective power. So Jefferson lauded freedom of speech, but in a society that naturally outlawed slander, libel, and blasphemy (against Christianity). Sodomy was a common-law crime, as was fornication, adultery, and even criminal conversation. As long as American society remained a natural human one, it all worked well. As the Constitution and the Federal government began to supercede States and local governments, the Enlightenment delusions contained in its provisions became tools to undermine the natural society, and it remains so today.
“Jacobite” is about as vicious in his hatred of reason and the United States and it’s founding principles as anything I’ve ever heard from the Left. He would do well as an Inquisitor. Or a member of the S.S. I’m not sure I can think of a villain in Atlas Shrugged who is evil enough to compare to him.
I stopped reading at, ” Every Leftist (usually a social misfit, biologically or …”.
If you don’t like our America,leave it, the quicker the better !!
That was some of the most turgid nonsense I have ever read. Bravo, Jacobite, you have mastered the Soviet style of speaking endlessly, yet saying nothing whatsoever…
“Nazis were not Leftists, because they wished to support and strengthen German society”
You fundamentally misunderstand who the Nazis were.
If you think the left has much of anything in common with the islamists, you really don’t understand either of them well. I thought this site is supposed to be a place for intelligent conservative blogging… This wingnut pseudo intellectual crap belongs on left wing nutbag sites, not here.
The left holds close to its collective bosom a belief in cultural equivalence (except conservative and Christian cultures). It uses political correctness on campus to stifle dissent from its orthodoxy. Islam – with its imperialism and totalitarian and brutal sharia law – which is the scourge of the earth, is nonetheless accepted by the academic left without scrutiny. Those who want to scrutinize Islam are dismissed as Islamophobic and engaging in hate speech. The left, like Islam, is a mob and your comment is a joke.
One of the basic principles of the modern left is that any “revolutionary movement”, even one that is supposedly explicitly “rightist”, can be co-opted to achieve the left’s objectives; this is the essence of Lenin’s doctrine of the “useful idiot”. The left in general views Islamism as a useful source of cannon fodder with which to destabilize non-”progressive” regimes. The strain of anti-Semitism which runs through the modern left, born of their infatuation with the Palestinians as an “underdog” cause, is a notable point of contact.
There is also a substantial portion of the left, born of Sixties influences ranging from Hermann Hesse to Carlos Castaneda to the Beatles’ romance with the Maharishi, who have an illogical infatuation with philosophies they regard as “Eastern” and “mystical”- part of their rejection of the “cold, unfeeling” values of the West. They are pro-Islamist because they are simply too intellectually lazy to distinguish between radical Islamism and other “Eastern” beliefs, such as Hinduism or Buddhism.
A third element, largely found in the environmentalist left, sees Islamism as an “antidote” to the modern, technological civilization they seek to destroy. They note that Islam is a backward, superstitious culture mired in the 8th Century AD with approval; their only complaint with Islam is that it isn’t completely Paleolithic.
What all of these elements have in common is an unshakeable faith that after the Islamic Triumph, the Islamists will abruptly realize that they are too stupid to run the Brave New World, but will be smart enough to recognize the innate superiority of the “enlightened” leftists, and will accordingly fall on their knees and beg- beg!- those “enlightened ones” to run the world. With the Islamists as their adoring acolytes.
Never mind that Islamist doctrine holds that when a traitor betrays his city to you, after you take control you behead him first, before he has a chance to betray you in turn. Those who are familiar with Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” might want to consider Grima Wormtongue’s or Saruman’s probable lifespans after a Mordor victory, if Sauron had been Islamic.
The left does have what amounts to an infatuation with Islamism. One based mainly upon arrogance, self-delusion, and a lack of contact with reality.
In short, based on the fundamental doctrines of leftism itself.
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eon
Read the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. The left in America has the same pact with Islam; it’s just not publically formalized.
I know the big words may have confused you and, on the surface, it would appear an unlikely alliance, when you see them marching arm in arm to the same destination in their Che t-shirts and keffiyehs, as unlikely as it would seem, the simplest explanation is always the best. Fellow travellers.
The left has been slowly killing the west with pin-prick injuries for over 100 years. The west is now dying of a thousand paper cuts. Only someone who is blind can’t see that islam and the left have joined forces to deliver the final death blow to the west.
Did you intend,your post as example of the style current in university tutorials and Student Union to so admirably make Dr. Solway’s point?
Only one thing in common, but it is a killer; Both want you dead,
along with the rest of the nonbelievers in their insane worldview.
The joke is on anyone who can’t see that the Left’s raison d’etre is self-loathing, and their long-term aim is intellectual and existential nihilism, which end the government-run universities and defense of Islam serves oh-so-well.
Solway’s piece, however, echoes that of Leonard Peikoff’s “The Ominous Parallels”, which raised the spector of a Fourth Reich 3 decades ago, and which, like Atlas Shrugged, has proven far too prescient in anticipating the decline and course of America.
The Left is always looking for a new cudgel to wield against its enemies. They are attracted to the Islamists because they see in their violence a powerful weapon to be used on the West. It’s the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” theory at work. The irony that Islamism is inimical to much of the Western “liberal” agenda doesn’t change what’s happening. Lenin was shrewd and cynical enough to recognize that his pawns in the West were nothing more than “useful idiots.”
The money being poured into universities by oil rich Islamic countries is what brings the two seemingly opposite world views hand in hand.
“If you think the left has much of anything in common with the islamists, you really don’t understand either of them well.”
Think of it in terms of Nazis and Soviet Communists. Their leftist ideologies were very similar but they varied in their methods and their ends.
If you recall, they started out with a pact – to the drooling of the American left back then. Once Hitler gained enough power, he turned on them.
It’s no different with the whole of the agitators on American left and Islamists. They’re both hard left ideologies; they differ only in their methods and their ends. And that AGAIN, will be decided in the end by whoever gains the most power first.
Then go to bed tonight and think about the muslim world on fire right now and then about how the President and that entire crew are unwilling to even call it Radical Islam, must less acknowledge that they are a threat to us.
Ya gotta ask yourself, whose side are you on?
yea, just ignore all those leftwing organizations that preach “Solidarity” with Palestinian and other Islamic terrorist groups that oppose US foreign policy. Ignore too the Arabist propaganda lines that use all the tropes of leftist orthodoxy to justify their terrorism and war crimes, which were, not coincidentally, created by the old USSRs KGB.
It appears that what a joke has departed. Expect a lot more of these grenades from the Obama campaign. What the left will seemingly never understand is that, after totalitarians get through using them to gain power, they will be the first to be enslaved.
Brilliant! That “what a joke” cannot — or will not — understand, is symptom, not criticism.
The thing that the left and islam have in common is that they use each other to advance their own sick ideologies. It is difficult to tell which one is more dangerous. Perhaps the most dangerous are those educated recently who think they are intellectuals, for example:
“I thought this site is supposed to be a place for intelligent conservative blogging… This wingnut pseudo intellectual crap belongs on left wing nutbag sites, not here.” what a joke
I give up more and more hope every day. A recent cocktail party where guests looked upon my husband as we defended our belief in some basic moral absolutes, while the “liberals” spouted every puppet like leftist talking points.
For example: the North American Indian nations were harmonious peace loving people living in nature until the evil white man came along and taught them how to be violent. Scalping was introduced by white Europeans. America is the most evil nation ever to exist. Drugs should be legalized. If Muslims marry young girls it should be looked upon as normal since for centuries cultures married young women. Needless to say I continued to take deep breaths, and the party turned sour.
William Gairdner another great Canadian writer and thinker has spoken about the disconnect he continually comes across in social settings.
Yesterday I went to my local Chapter’s looking for Mamet’s new book. What was I expecting, they don’t carry it. But the shelves in the Poly Sci section displayed titles dealing with Rush Limbaugh The Most Dangerous Man in America, The Lies of Sarah Palin, Audacity of Hope, and every Anti American title you can think of. The Enviro section obviously anti oil, the world is getting smaller, the coming enviro apocalypse type of garbage. Oh and plenty of Understanding Islam type titles.
So I walked out so disheartened and thought back to the last party. Is it any wonder most people believe so much that just isn’t so. (I did find Demonic and Liberty and Tyranny and Primetime Propaganda and America Alone. I re-arranged the shelves before leaving)
Solway, Sowell, Hanson, Gairdner,Steyn, Horowitz, PJmers are my beacons of light. I cleanse my palette by re-reading a Solway piece or just watching Sowell interviews over and over again.
Some William Gairdner palette cleansing found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JvtLLCOdqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFY05JFLuU&feature=related
It’s not all bad news. Leftists and Muslims have one other thing in common – incompetence. As a History major and a Gulf War Vet, I’ve seen both in action (or what they think action is).
College students in my day would roll their eyes and try not to snicker at lefty professors. Regurgitate their nonsense and pass the course was the objective – but never take seriously a man or woman who has never worked a day in his life.
Muslims, particularly the Arab type, are pathetically incompetent. They don’t do maintenance and they don’t do training. If Allah wills it, their trucks will run and their bullets will hit the target. Who are they to argue with Allah’s will by working hard?
The Lefties and Muslims deserve each other – just two different shades of FAIL.
Indeed having recently read Hirsi Ali’s Nomand, she speaks of the grandmother who looks at the puddles in the apartment and remarks that it’s not necessary to deal with them, Allah will take care of the puddles if he wills it!!
Right about Arabs (incompetent), but dead wrong about the Persians (great chess players). The West will fall at the deft blows of the Iranian Mullahs – unless, of course, the Mullahs in Tehran cannibalize themselves first.
Can I also point out that Mr Solway’s writing is so seductive. Words I have never heard spoken, crafted together like a long poem. I couldn’t help but let my mind wander to illicit thoughts of David whispering in my ear. I guess we culture and philosophy geeks find it sexy.
David if you were my prof, I would get to class early and make certain I got the front row.
Wouldn’t it be great if one day sites like these could have downloadable readings of articles by the author. To hear the article read by David would be very satisfying. I would pay for that.
Come to think of it, PJM should interview all it’s contributors and have a running series. Again us hungry types would up our membership fee for such a privilege.
I have to use the online Merriam-Webster at least a dozen times to get through one of Solway’s articles. I look on the exercise as a great vocabulary builder.
From the article in the 3rd paragraph: “… The rewriting of history linked with the virulent assault against the palladium of traditional liberalism”
I have looked up the word “palladium” and only find the usual definition of its being a chemical element in the metal family. Clearly not the intended meaning as used above. I enjoy Mr. Solway’s articles, but sometimes, his meaning is too arcane.
However, I now know the definition of “camelopard”.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palladium “capitalized : a statue of Pallas whose preservation was believed to ensure the safety of Troy”
Thanks!European students of the past have been filled with racial,social,religious prejudices of their societies and their science(remember Jewish and Aryan science).Wars and revolutions,de-nazification, swept off everything in their brains and the new prejudices fill it.Today`s leftist academics will be forced to remain western people by the logic of the future conflicts with the Muslim societies,though the future Rosenbergs and Filbis will act accordingly,I`m sure.
The European revolutions were never finished, Ben. They did not leave a vacuum that is now filled by a left-Islamic alliance. I wrote a blog for the fourth of July (two years ago) reviewing the unfinished quality of all the European revolutions here: http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/. I also question the notion that the Third Reich was a phenomenon of the Left, as opposed to being a racial state designed to eliminate “the Jewish problem” (that is, another way of putting the mind to sleep). Here is the link to my essay on Hitler’s fear of a jewified modernity: http://clarespark.com/2011/06/19/index-to-links-on-hitler-and-the-big-lie/.
The Left and Islam both seek world dominion, though neither knows enough to rule mankind well, and are both thereby insane. The difference is that Islam was created to be this way, in jealous mimicry of, and at war with, older, powerful religions, but the Left has degenerated into it, by being at war with the Right (which has also degenerated in that war), and by not taking any ancient tradition seriously, and so not sifting the ancient traditions for the true thread of human progress, nor being alert for the rise of modern dogmas that rival ancient ones for their deceptive and divisive character, and no doubt are, in fact, but ancient ones resurrected in new guise, unrecognized for what they really are. As I have said before, “Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.” The Left is Aristotelian, by way of Darwinian, and believes first and foremost in rhetoric, as opposed to rigorous proof. Rhetoric is just another word for empty rationalization, and that is the root of all evil in human interaction. And empty rationalization is a trademark of Islamic culture — indeed, of all tribal cultures that have outlived their usefulness in the wider world.
The left and Islamism are ideologically identical, in that both are utopian, universalist, totalitarian and anti-reason, anti-individual, anti-objective facticity. Both live within the realm of words and rhetoric.
In this sense, they are decidedly NOT Aristotelian, who was adamantly insistent on objective empirical evidence and individual reasoning and against the sophistry of words.
For committed liberals, not much has changed since Kant wrote his 1784 essay Answer to the Question, “What is Enlightening?” (Google Free Book)
Kant’s dictum of thinking for one’s self is unalterably opposed to the rigidity of the ideological left, the ideological right, and the religiously dogmatic … which is why the far-right, the far-left, and the ultra-orthodox have for many centuries deeply distrusted freethinking mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers.
Efforts to teach students to think for themselves have for centuries met with indifferent success: “The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous” (Carlisle).
All too often, students respond to the dictum “Think for yourself” by asking “But what is it that we should think about?” Or worse: “Will we be asked to think for ourselves on the test?” A slow and sustained cultivation of the habit of independent thought is required.
Answer to the Question, “What is Enlightening?”
URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=eZYn5EYifGoC&pg=PA3
It must be that the left is mostly ideological because the left routinely responds by demonizing the right and libertarians instead of by debating their ideas.
bichronic – no dictionary results.
I enjoy being forced to look up words because it just makes me better, but really I think this was written just to hear yourself pontificate.
The left and radical Islam do indeed have one major thing in common: They hate the disruptive, revolutionary power of the market as exemplified by the United States. People invent things and work hard and get rich in America without the permission of the “progressives”; they hate that. The left will never forgive the U.S. for humbling the Soviet Union; the jihadis won’t forgive it for extending western values — particularly the equality of women — to deeply traditional, uncle-centric Muslim societies.
If “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is the operative principle, as it often is, then the lefties and jihadis have reason to join forces. The fact that they will ultimately turn on each other if victorious, like the SS vs. the SA, doesn’t matter now.
Despite his grandiloquence, which he would be well advised to drop, Solway makes many excellent points here. But although he cites the fact that Jew-hatred is becoming emblematic of the academic left as well as radical Islam, he fails to mention a salient fact: The left is almost everywhere led by secular Jews whose new religion, now that they’ve dispensed with God, is that collection of pathologies exemplified by Obama. Jews are also to be found in the front lines of the forces of what Solway calls traditional liberalism (i.e., conservatism), but the vast preponderance is on the left. Many Jews even seem to love their leftism more than their fellow Jews in Israel and are prepared to prove it by voting for Obama next year.
After having watched a show on the history ch, I became curious. So I did some minor research and have in fact concluded, that the remaining undeground leadership of the Third Reich have been active since the conclusion of WW2.
Specifically I point out Francois Genoud. We know he was the Nazis Swiss banker. We know he was active in dealings with Nazis throughout his life. I do not know what the link between him and George Soros is, or if in fact that there is. But, that they are likeminded is evident.
No man acts alone. What we do not know is the extent of the infrastructure Genoud built. To dismiss that there has been and is no organizational activity to promote the Fourth Reich is folly. If I am correct, there are deep and dire ramifications to my ascertations.
Also overlooked is the change made by sleight of hand via Exec Order to the toxic Office of You Know What. Here are Eboo Patel’s creepy views:
http://wwwtwosetsofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-would-eboo-say-hard-left.html
Eon–
You are right on target with your analysis of the leftist-Islamist alliance. The leftists see that the Islamic juggernaught is unstoppable cancer in the midst of a Western democracy that can be subverted from within. The violent Islamists are the foot soldiers in the war against the US, and will help to collapse our civilization, after which the enlightened progressives will rule the new utopia.
I see this attitude as a variation on the Charles Manson Helter-Skelter murders. Manson was trying to ignite a race war in the US, and, in his twisted mind, the Tate-LaBianca murders would be the precipitating event. He believed that in the coming race war, blacks would win, but could not rule. The Manson family would then take over to rule in the aftermath of the violence. Think of the PC MC progressives as the modern day equivalents of the Manson family, and we are about to experience a nation-wide Helter-Skelter of Islamist violence that will be indulged by leftist elites who will hobble any effective response.
Thank you. We think alike.
I often refer to this phenomenon as the “Manson Syndrome”- the belief that a group is powerful enough to destroy that which the “elite’” wish destroyed, but is also somehow (a) not smart enough to run things afterward, but simultaneously (b) just “wise” enough to recognize the “elite’s” self-perceived “fitness to rule”.
I long ago noted that one of the hallmarks of “progressive” thinking is the ability to hold two or even more diametrically-opposed, mutually-exclusive beliefs at the same time, while insisting that they are both (or all) valid, and denying that they are contradictory. Mr. Spock would, of course, consider this illogical, bordering on ludicrous.
Speaking of the good Commander, another of my tools for understanding the left is one I call the Nomad Syndrome;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29
Like Nomad, the left operates on the principle of “that which is imperfect must be destroyed”.
Their version is, “We demand that you obey us, so that we may make you perfect. Since you refuse to become perfect, as we command, we will destroy you, so that we may make the world new.”
The flaw in both the left’s, and Nomad’s, reasoning, is of course that reality can never be “made perfect”. But unlike Nomad, the left can never be compelled to face the reality of their own errors.
Probably because, unlike a computer, even Captain Kirk could never compel our “enlightened progressives” to actually think.
cheers
eon
And people wonder why I homeschool my kids. You want kids immune to the leftist idiocy at universities? Homeschool them with a conservative Christian curriculum. Show them how logic and common sense easily unroof and expose leftist/atheist idiocies. Make sure they understand that they’re not the accidental byproducts of a cosmic burp some umpty-billion years ago.
But if you turn them over to gov’t schools 6 hrs a day 5 days a week, don’t be surprised at what you get. Even if they’re in church 3 days a week, VBS and youth camp every year, whatever, they’ll be easy pickings for the college profs. Atheist/environmentalist/’progressive’/'diversity’ mantras are pushed and pushed hard in the gov’t schools, even if an individual teacher may not intend to do so.
It may well turn out that in the future, education may be taught on-line. The University of Arizona has offered this for years.
Yes, we have some of ours in private (Christian) school and also homeschool. I wish I had had the nerve to homeschool all along, frankly. We were in public school in an excellent district that we had paid dearly to live in. After two years we had seen enough and got out.
In the years since our departure, I have become very anti-public education. It creates an entitlement mentality, even in my very wealthy neighbors, and they are blind to it. And the curriculum…even a dear friend of mine, a public-school history teacher, agrees with me that ANY child would be better off outside of the influence of the curriculum and test requirements in the public schools. (He is looking for a private school job.)
This wanders off topic from the original essay…
The left and Islamism are ideologicaly similar to each other, as well as to other collectivist ideologies: socialism, communism, fascism. That’s because, as noted, they all share the same axioms:
They are collectivist considering that everyone should behave the same; thus, they reject individualism. This means that they reject dissent; they reject reason (which is always individual); they reject critical analysis.
They are utopian; they consider that perfection of our finite nature is possible – a violation of basic physics – but requires rigid enforcement of common behavior.
Thus, utopianism is also totalitarian.
They are anti-individual because their utopia requires universalism. As such, they reject reason, science, empirical evidence (which is always carried out by the individual) and objective truth.
And, since they reject objective reality, then, they all exist within ‘virtual reality’ – or, the imaginary world of words and rhetoric. They are alienated from factual evidence required for their ideas – we see this in Obama, who redefines reality by using a different word. So, the Libyan war is ‘not a war’ because he has redefined war to mean ‘hostile troops on the ground’ and considers that bombs dropping to that ground are not an ‘act of war’ (tell that to England during the German bombing blitz).
As for their success – the desire for utopia is, I suggest, a basic emotional component of human psychology. So, humans will always be striving to find it. However, since it is a virtual realm, a rhetorical realm, it will be emotionally mesmerizing – as we have seen with Obama mania – but, functionally, such ideologies cannot operate in the real world.
There is not a single collectivist ideology that has been able to make this giant leap from the realm of words to the realm of reality. They’ve managed to take over the country…but..they cannot last; they cannot economically materially support the population. So, they collapse. We are seeing that in the Middle East as the tribal collectivists collapse; we are seeing it in Europe as the socialist economies collapse.
That’s why these ideologies thrive in the isolated, protected islands of the universities – funded not by their own work but by the state taxpayers, unaccountable for their rhetoric, protected and cocooned. But in the real world – they cannot function.
So, although our human psyche wants utopian perfection, our material reality knows that such worlds must remain fictional…and the fight between the two will continue.
ETAB, I admire your refusal to succomb to a dark view of human nature. From my perspective, calling these people utopians and collectivists is akin to calling Hitler creative and organized.
As I’ve said many times, there may be a leftist librarian here or there who actually believes the fantasies hissed out by the salivating left, but 99% of the reptilian psychopaths are more like Nero with better creases in their pants and slicker press agents.
> They are utopian; they consider that perfection of our finite nature is possible
It is one of the delicious ironies of history that when you start with the assumption “man is basically good” you end up with a totalitarian attempt at utopia but when you start with “man is basically broken” you can end up with such freedom as we have here.
If you believe that sin is universal then nobody can be trusted, so you create a nation where “law is king” and no person is trusted with very much power.
If people are only bad because they are poor and/or are not educated well enough, then the “enlightened” have a RESPONSIBILITY to take power and fix the world. “Don’t worry, you unenlightened slobs. We’ll fix everything – and we’ll make sure to educate you in the truth you need and give you some money so you will worship us for the gods we are.” (Of course, we’ll get the money from those other people who don’t need it).
You are a wonderful writer and, more importantly, a great thinker. I enjoy your articles. I am not a dope. I have two master’s degrees and have worked 30 years as a teacher and 10 years as a professional editor of technical manuals for a large computer company. When I was an editor, we editors were told that the main objective of our work (in addition to accuracy) was to make the manuals reader-friendly so that they were readily understood. The purpose of writing is communication–to convey information. If a writer obfuscates the message by using words that regular–even highly educated–people do not understand, then there is no communication and, therefore, no purpose in the writing.
Please dumb down your writing enough so that we can read your articles in a single flow instead of staccato style, having to stop to look up words and then start again, which disrupts the thread of thought. In other words, please make them reader-friendly. Thank you.
Foreign language lessons sometimes include a vocabulary list at the beginning. This highlights the new words to be learned. Maybe someone could be kind enough to do the same for Solway’s articles.
Look at how our bright kids are being funneled into International Baccalaureate programs, a program devised to indoctrinate the children of United Nations diplomats http://truthaboutib.com/images/revised_IB_PYP_MYP_Brochure.pdf.
Do you want your child to grow up to think like a UN diplomat? Hell No!
Left/libtards and jihadists: Both like tyranny and hate America.
Mr. Solway, as usual, makes his topic appear very complex, which in my mind, obscures the truth that he means to illustrate.
The truth is that we are in the midst of the greatest con in human history.
There have really only been three stages of human political activity. The first was the loose, egalitarian, non-beaurocratic, non-hierarchical social structures practiced by hunter gatherer cultures the earliest days of humanity until cities began to form when agriculture was invented as the last ice age receded. That loose, egalitarian structure is the natural condition of mankind and is almost certainly genetically supported since it existed for hundreds of thousands of years.
The second stage is the all-powerful, centrally controlled beaurocratic state, which arose in tandem with the growth of cities, i.e., “civilization”. Try to find a state in history that was not tyranical and that lasted for more than a few years. You may persuade yourself that there are a few, but the truth is that genuinely common people have never been allowed to participate in their own governance until the United States were formed.
Now we are in the third stage of human politics; the one that has improved human lifestyles by orders of magnitude more in 235 years than occured in the previous million years, the one based on individual freedoms and free markets.
But there is a glitch, you see. The glitch is that power-mad self-styled elites liked it better the other way; the way where they owned everything and had absolute power over the lives of the other 99.9% of humanity. Con men have always existed. For centuries they controlled humanity. They want to again.
So they were undermining freedom almost before it began. A big part of it is the academic con that Mr. Solway eloquently describes. But that is not even the greater part. The greater part is the manipulation of human greed and envy to persuade the ignorant to support the con artists’ scheme to re-establish world domination. This is the ultimate con. “you have nothing to fear by taking this sweet candy from me dear girl”.
So we stand on the precipice, wealthier than kings a few generations back, priviledged with freedom no serf could have imagined in 1750, on the crest of a life-style explosion that has literally transformed humanity…but with a group of sly and arrogant overseers who have persuaded about 50% of their future serfs to sell the greatest heritage in human history for a hall of mirrors.
I agree; Mr. Solway’s ‘dances-with-words’ tends to obscure relatively simple points.
I think the key axioms are that, as human populations increased over the centuries and settled in permanent villages – as control over food production increased – political organization moved from the internal consensus of migratory hunter-gatherer bands into the requirement for long term stable structures. These are the tribal political structures.
They are two-class, made up of hereditary Rulers..and the mass who are the Ruled. Then as populations further increased, in particular in the richest biome on this planet, Europe, the need emerged for new technologies to increase food production. This requirement for innovation set up a new need: the need for human inventions, human observation of the objective world, a reliance on human work rather than ‘leave it to god’. And so, the idea of CHANGE and progress and innovation developed.
First, in Europe..and we saw this spread to the political system (Magna Carta) and then, the USA was founded, the first nation in the world, on these principles of the power of the individual to reason, critically analyze, and innovate.
But the emotional (not rational) desire for utopianism remains with us, the feeling that Some Higher Power can ‘fix things’ for us. I think this is a basic human need – and the danger is when humans attempt to set up worldly systems to fulfill this need.
These systems are religion, developed by man, and used to suggest that IF we follow this system, THEN, our needs will all be met. [I would say that only Christianity insists on human work and self-reliance.]
And the collectivist ideologies of socialism, communism, fascism, which insert Big Government as the ultimate provider of all needs.
It’s a power play, because both Islamism, as the religion that seeks to control, and the collectivist social ideologies, can only exist when they control, in the totalitarian sense, all the population.
The problem then becomes – with such totalitarian control, all dissent and debate stops. Consider, for example, how Obama rejects debate and dissent and instead, whines that Congress ought to pass His bills as a rubber-stamp.
And without dissent and debate – progress stops. No more innovation.
Essentially, a society that cannot support dissent and creativity will implode from within; a society that sets up a utopian future and a Big Government to attain that future – will implode from within.
“And without dissent and debate – progress stops. No more innovation.
Essentially, a society that cannot support dissent and creativity will implode from within; a society that sets up a utopian future and a Big Government to attain that future – will implode from within.”
Exactly. And we have seen this happen already, in the former USSR. It’s hard to fathom why Obama and his cronies so completely ignore the lessons of history.
Why do you assume they ignore the lessons of history?
The lesson they take is that the commissars had total power and would have retained it for centuries but for the United States.
If the United States is destroyed, as they plan, there will be nothing between them and complete power for a very very long time.
because it’s what they want
Why do you assume they ignore the lessons of history?
The lesson they take is that the commissars had total power and would have retained it for centuries but for the United States.
If the United States can be destroyed, as they plan, there will be nothing between them and complete power for a very very long time.
Ew. Ew. EWWWWWWW.
I am a closet conservative in the academy. I will lose my job if I “come out.” However, I’m being very subversive in the classroom by providing true academic freedom and insisting my students think for themselves. They don’t know whether I agree with their points or not because it’s my job to evaluate the quality, not the politics, of their thinking. The feedback I get is sadly humorous: “You mean we can write about ANYTHING? Even if you don’t like the topic? Even if you don’t agree with our opinion?”
It’s hard to know how many like me there are. My guess is the numbers are growing, hopefully enough to disrupt the ideological takeover described here.
We never knew professors’ political leanings back in the olden daze, although I’m pretty sure about one or two teaching assistants who attacked me for something I said.
It was an unspoken rule of the academy, however, that professors keep their opinions out of the mix of their teaching.
It was good, it was freedom. You could think about the ideas, all the ideas, without encumbrances or pressure.
A few years ago, I heard a professor say it was his job to inculcate his own enlightened views into the captive audience.
Get ‘em young, get ‘em unformed, the agenda of every totalitarian impulse.
If I had to sit in a college classroom today, I would probably wind up throwing things.
I live in the DC area and I heard a “journalist” in a restaurant say the same thing.
Well, I’m a retired professor – and a conservative. I used to tell my students – at the start of every term: “I’m not interested in your opinions; opinions belong in the coffee shop. In this class, you will provide your conclusions and your conclusions will be based on factual evidence and logical analysis of those facts. Period.”
And then, I always went over some basic critical thinking skills. Essays were ‘bloodied’ with red ink statements: ‘Prove it; Prove it”. The students soon learned that every conclusion had to be accountable, had to be justified and that evidence and logic were the only values that counted.
Apparently, in their other classes, which the students told me were ‘very different’ – all that was required were their Opinions. Of course, if opinions are the basis for the mark – then, the student has no choice but to echo the teacher’s opinions.
But I don’t think that ‘lessons of history’ are remembered. And the people who live within the cocoon of the leftist ideology think that, possibly, quite possibly, THEIR Utopia will ‘make it’ – even though all the others failed.
As I recall, it used to be fashionable in the American academy to support Israel. Now the exact opposite is true.
This President is hanging his hat for 4 more years of fundamental transformation on pandering to illegals and cozying up to Islam, in today’s news looking for closer alliances with Egypt’s rising Muslim Brotherhood.
Yet another example of the Left’s correspondences with Islamists.
I am reading
This analysis of why and how the Brotherhood and its clones like Hamas can never allow that Israel should continue to exist
It is beyond mind-boggling that we have a President and a state department still pushing for so called peace negotiations between Israel and her permanently dedicated and sworn enemies.
Hopelessly stupid or intentionally subversive ?
intentionally subversive.
Remember, don’t calculate your juvenile poultry before the process of incubation has been fully materialized, and also, never forget that a superfluity of culinary executives tends to render unpalatable the liquid nutriment, okay?
Once again, I love the essay, David.
Not sure why people come into the comments to say that the “style” is not to their liking and they don’t want to read it. Is there a man with a gun siting next to their scroll button? Rather odd to take the time to comment on how one does not like to read someone’s style…every time they read that style. But, to each his own, I suppose.
Anyway, several wonderful points here to discuss, back on substantive topic.
The making of bedfellows between the Marxist cult and the radical Islam cult would seem to be off the table on the early chalk. Extremist feminism taken to the bizarre fringe marrying up with extremist, honor killing, automobile driving banning, ….the dichotomy of the devaluation vs. the overvaluation of the Y chromosome.
And homosexuality, alternative lifestyle and the bedroom as a mosh pit juxtaposed against the death to deviants approach would seem hard to reconcile.
It’s as if the nanny was attracted to the biker, because of his over the top “danger” quotient. They have become so unenamored with their castrati males, the nanny can at once continue to emasculate the little boys at home while playing footsie with the suicide bombers. Well, they each like to have something to strap on, anyway.
Certainly though, there is something more than a passing fancy that binds the groups. The shared hatred of free market democracy being at the top of the list.
But recruitment into insanity is an art form unique to cults. The Marxists have learned this lesson well. They start early on kids, which was the Ayers manifesto, the Midwest Academy and Woods Foundation plots. Combining L. Ron Hubbard with Old Mother Hubbard is a nasty, but effective ploy.
Peer pressuring the weakest of the herd, the young, impressionable, the outcast, the lonely and the deranged through pop culture, academia, and through propagandized “news” cements the separation from the rational adult minds that could help the emotionally feeble to fight off the indoctrination.
Demonizing those very same adult,sane, rational voices….makes the undoing of brainwashing all the harder.
What makes the leftists’ cult patently insane is this very bedfellowing with 7th Century barbarism. They thrive on the hatred of America and Israel, the Western notion of free market democracy to the extreme extent that they would embrace the most vile enemy of their enemy and not bat an eye.
To suggest that “liberals” are engaged in this is to weaken the words behind the cult. Liberals don’t exist any longer. Leftists ate them whole.
And, in an article that I wrote for PJM, I outlined just the beginning of the Inversion Narrative, where everything about leftism is precisely the opposite of how it is portrayed, it’s core is the polar opposite of its shell.
Both radical Islam and today’s leftism are insane cult paradigms. The coupling of them is not merely the 4th Reich. It is the Cascadia fault line between us and our future existence. It is not a matter of “if” there will occur a mega-thrust, tectonic plate shifting, it is a matter of when.
Failure to prepare and organize now, is something we do at our peril.
Seven. Six. Two.
“bedroom as a mosh pit” a great one, CFB!
Thanks again for pithily making so much so clear.
“And homosexuality, alternative lifestyle and the bedroom as a mosh pit juxtaposed against the death to deviants approach would seem hard to reconcile.”
Nah. Those are their own “OK” deviants.
Both the Left and Islam have the same goal- submission. And religious freedom is their common enemy.
Great point. Except Islam probably views the Left as its enemy too.
When applied to what is becoming more but still insufficiently obvious on the world stage this is one dire prediction for the future that may actually come to pass.
Mr. Solway’s assertion that “They will become professors, government bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers, judges, public officials, civil servants, community organizers. They will be animated by the dream of unreason and infatuated by the siren of collective salvation,” describes what is already well underway and the danger implied is already palpable. He neglected to add the very influential media and entertainment industry to this cabal of “freedom fighters.”
Even more ominous is the inability of our elected officials, government security organizations and the military to do anything about it or even recognize it as a threat. An enemy cannot be defeated until it is identified, widely recognized, accepted as such and an effective counter strategy is developed and implemented. How is this possible when voluminous, incriminating, relevant, supporting evidence is immediately suppressed or intentionally misinterpreted and scrubbed of potentially incriminating facts, for general public consumption?
While there are numerous individuals and organizations actively working to “spread the word” to begin this process, the product of these pedagogic institutions of indoctrination in collusion with and support of, fundamental Islamist individuals, organizations and nations, and a complicit, Liberal media, have already established and continue to shore up their bulwarks which are formidable. These will be difficult to dismantle and eradicate, as they must be, if Western civilization, as we know it, is to survive.
We definitely have a new dichotomy establishing itself as rulers-to-be based on two philosophies of totalitarianism.
First is Mussolini’s Corporate Fascism. This has been on the rise since shortly after the turn of the last century. It is one of the primary pillars of the miraculous conversion of the American Industrial base to first support a war footing and then the equally astonishing return to a peacetime base. It is the source of Eisenhower’s admonition to be aware of and cautious regarding the “Military Industrial Complex”. We are currently seeing the expansion by absorption of the US and European economies into a “Global Fascism” to be a world based totalitarianism based on international adherence to concepts such as Affirmative Action, uniform medical care, and loss of individual national sovereignty. Add to this things such as energy rationing and forced population controls and a pattern begins to emerge. How China and India will play in this “Brave New World” is only now beginnig to become visable.
Second is the relatively new version of urban communism extolled by Alinsky. This brand of Communism fits well into the urban ghetto environment and is the tool of Community Organizers such as Barrack Obama.
In the long run totalitarian Islam will lose appeal in the West. Its only purpose today in the west is to aid in the establishment of totalitarian communism/fascism.
Establihing a Fourth Riech is a reasonable Name for what is occuring.
The schemers behind the coming of the Fourth Reich are well entrenched and spreading for the moment, but aren’t dug in solid yet, that’s why it’s accurate to call it a “coming.” It hasn’t arrived yet. But it could, and all too soon too.
There’s a pretty strong, vocal, intelligent and spirited mass of stalwart Americans who do see it coming, and who want to beat it back, and this current election campaign is the main battleground for now, and that is only fitting.
The so-called “independents” are basically agnostic. They don’t know what’s up. If they did, they’d pretty nearly all be agin’ it. They are concerned over less potent issues though, and many have swung against Obama already.
The main problem are the useful idiots. They come in all stripes, and all too many of ‘em are our personal friends.
From the time Obama appeared on the national stage and folks other than the LSM looked into his background, there has been much use of “Marxist” and “Socialist” to describe him. “Muslim” has also been used a lot, given his attendance at madrassa while in Indonesia. All these words apply, based on his behavior since taking office. Much digital ink has been poured out in trying to understand his actions – is he really a true believer in collectivist ideology and thinks what is he doing will make the US a better place or is he doing things maliciously? “Narcissist” is also bandied about a lot, and for good reason.
I think all these “ism’s” apply to Dear Leader. At his heart, however, he is a Vandal. Except for the scale and damage done, not a lot different than a 12 year old sent into an antique shop with a baseball bat and told to do as much damage as possible before the police arrive. He is full of rage and with great glee swings the bat and enjoys the results. He is the Terminator – he will not stop, he cannot be reasoned with and he will not quit until Sarah Conner arrives on the scene.
Soros wants a world government and that can’t happen until the United States is destroyed. Obama is doing exactly what he is hired to do, and doing it well.
Fairbanks is exactly right. Obama is doing what he was put into the job to do — destroy the United States. He is a communist, and by definition part of an active conspiracy to implement the “anti-thesis” of Hegel, the tearing down that must take place before the “synthesis” of forming a totalitarian collectivist state. What’s needed is the names of not merely his fellow travelers (anyone who shares his objectives merely by their own hatred of the United States, and they are legion within the Left), but his handlers — those who are consciously and by malice aforethought directing the effort.
Education is all about the state controlling the child (they know better than parents, ya’ know…) and a progressive-liberal agenda to basically create “the masses” that blindly follow the government…a utopian world in a sense, because if everyone does what the government tells them to do or creates them to do, there would be no crime or anything of that sort. A managed population is “good”. I wholeheartedly disagree, as would our Founding Fathers and most Americans, if they knew what was occurring. The problem is, intentionally so, that social engineering via social control has been institutionalized over generations so that it is not apparent and thus harder to break. I discuss the educational side of this in my blog http://3rseduc.blogspot.com
There is no shortage of half-baked over-the-top nonsense here, mainly because there is no sense of balance. Most of you, beginning with Mr Solway take you germ of criticism of the parts of our culture you don’t like and feed it in your fevered petri dishes until you have created Frankenstein. Let me get this straight, Obama, the leftist-Muslim led a military which has killed Bin Laden and kills Al Quaida regularly with drones. Never mind, he’s probably just faking it until he can get Islamists to take over the country.
We are the richest, most powerful, most materialistic nation in the world with the greatest freedom. We have elected Republican Presidents about as many times as Democratic Presidents and each time, the other side will tell us that the sky is falling because we have done so.
It is certainly true that we are in a position where we fear losing our ability to have the next generation live better than we did, but with all the supposedly blind, useless, goofy leftists running around, they should be easy pickings for the clear-thinking, hard working, ambitious, entrepreneurial types….wherever they are. They all have to eat, wear clothing, be entertained, have housing and healthcare, etc., but this whole middle ground where life goes on, more or less as usual is nowhere to be found amidst the fevered musings here. The fact that becomes more apparent to me all the time is that most of the people here sound as if they can only marginally function in modern society, and there is a lot of bitterness, thereat. Everywhere I drive I see massive houses, endless signs of material wealth, which SOMEONE appears to have. I am guessing that most of those hard-working or lucky folks are not spending time on the internet casting Jeremiads towards leftist Islam, or whatever, but are busting there butts making sure that they are wealthier than the rest of us. What the hell are they thinking?
We are currently in the hands of the wreckers. They have been prepared and positioned over a period of at least half a century, although their ancestors have always been hiding in plain sight among us.
Part of their mission, assigned by men and regimes now long dead, is to convince us that what we have done, what we believe, and our love of liberty are all illusions. For them to succeed, the tyranny of the majority must prevail in all things American, and to accomplish that, they will continue to say “freedom” while leading their new serfs to liscense.
The single greatest barrier to complete victory for the moles, the copperheads, the fellow travellers, the useful fools, and the righteous fascists that have labored so long to destroy us from within, is the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms. So long as Americans are armed, and can protect their inalienable rights from the despot who wants to rule us, we retain the ability to speak, to assemble, and even to violently rebel against illegitimate authority.
If even the Syrians, unarmed and without the physical means to resist the power of their despotic ruler, rise up against their oppressors, what do you think would happen when 60 million armed American Patriots rise? There will he hell to pay and, like the loyalists to the British crown in the 1780s, the wreckers who survive that hell will emmigrate like the rats who leave sinking ships. What nation on the face of this earth would take them in?
Can you eat your guns? I have plenty of guns, but I’m not exactly sure who I am supposed to be shooting. The guys who plow my roads in the winter, collect my trash year-round, or those who come to put out fires? But if you have your guns and they make you feel good, then they must be well worth the money.
Will they get your children or grandchildren jobs?
Leftists have awoken to the reality that Islam better expresses their desires than Communism.
Leftists believe in authoritarian rule; they despise freedom and liberty. Islam means submission to authority. In theory that authority is God, in practice the submission to the the caliph (in Leftist terms, general secretary) or sheik.
Leftists believe themselves citizens of the world where no one will be “discriminated” against by their country of origin. This is a another word for the Umma, the unity of all Moslems, for Mohammed wrote “do not say that you are from a place.”
Then there is the sexual reason. Like Bill Clinton (who called Iran a progressive democracy, emphasis on the progressive), Islam defines sex as reproductive sex. Other bodily pleasures of the penis, not taken for the purposes of reproduction are not sexual and may be indulged in freely: ‘boys for pleasure, women for children’ commonly describes Islamic sexual practices. The application of this to the lowering of the age of consent, polyamory, and homosexual and pedophile “marriage” needs no further explication.
Thus it is that Islam offers the authority of God to all that the Leftist desires: tyrannical rule; the extinction of the Capitalist Jew; the annihilation of human distinctions along with that most distinct tribe, the Jew; and unlimited homosexual sex with any male regardless of age.
Jacobite and Solway (the author) have much in common. As for the article, it’s alarmist bullsh*t.
It only seems ironic that liberalism and Islam are allies against the West. It really isn’t ironic at all. Liberalism has a deep and abiding hatred of Western civilization, and of Christianity (a transplant into Western Civ from the Near East) in particular. Ditto, Islam.
In Solway’s New World Order it would be a crime to criticize Israel, and Gentiles would be the permanent slaves of the Jews. He’s always hopped up and on the verge of hysteria. Maybe it’s because he’s nearly 80 and has been leeching off government grants since his early 20′s. He’s never had a job, or been in the real world to any degree. On top of that, he’s a real woman-hater. Wonder why?