The Left is the Mr. Hyde of Western civilization, and as such probably ineradicable for as long as the civilization itself exists. As practical matter, it has to be treated as a golf handicap. There’s no use railing against it. All that anyone can do is make allowances for their inevitable input.
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I disagree here. AQ is also a creature of the decadence in the west. they are two sides of the same coin(as opposed local conflicts along the periphery of islam.) as much as the awful decadence in the west a sign of late empire so also is aq. they are in fact banking on the fact that the west will continue to increase in its decadence. so far they have not been disappointed. nor is this something that any one or two election cycles can turn around. any attack on aq has to coincide with a right turn of the culture in the west. as it is now the liberal agenda in the west has many generations of inertia behind it. and it moves forward unabated. aq can be tactically defeated but not strategically defeated– they will not be silenced until the worms turns against the steady internal decay in the west. it is toward that worm turn that we should also set our minds.

then of course it will be something else. but that’s for another generation to puzzle over.