The Only Way To Defeat The Left

NewsReal Blog ^ | September 3, 2009 | David Horowitz

[HorowitzianConservative]

I’ve been following the Newsreal debate between Phyllis Chesler and Jamie Glazov on the one hand and Naomi Wolf, who thinks America, the most “liberated” country on the face of the earth by any — any— progressive standard (treatment of minorities, of women, of the poor, freedom of the individual), is a prot0-fascist state and needs a revolution, while the Islamo-fascist enemy, the greatest oppressor of women and minorities ever, needs a wrist slap. Wolf’s moral blindness is just a one minor instance of the general moral vacuity of progressives which for a hundred years has put them on the side of the totalitarian enemies of freedom and inspired their assault against the West.

This led Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs and former chief of Israel’s Defense Forces, to describe the left as a “virus.” Actually, as Aaron Shuster pointed out in an email which I am about to cite, one could also say the left is in the grips of a virus — a virus that attacks its brain cells and makes it incapable of ingesting real world facts and consequently of arriving at reasonable judgments.

Radical feminism is one form of the virus. It is an ideology grown out of Marxism whose enemy is the freedom of the individual from collective control, and the freedom of society from the totalitarian state. That is why radical feminists are incapable of seeing the anti-feminist monster in Islam: because Islam is now the center of the revolt against the feminists’ real enemy, which is us.

[HorowitzianConservative]

Horowitz weighs in on the Chesler-Wolf brouhaha. Must-read.

[y6162]

Naomi should experience real oppression.

I volunteer.

[classified]

If Naomi Wolf and her radical friends had their way, America would be disarmed and radical Islam would be triumphant and women would be back in the Middle Ages, and the rest of us along with them.

That says it all!

[ROTB]

Actually, it’s like the AIDS Virus:

It prevents an organism from properly eliminating that which is destroying it, though PC thinking, affirmative action, taxes, government programs, etc...

[Anima Mundi]

This is so true:

“A vital part of leftist thinking is the assumption that to be on the left is the only sensible/decent/principled position to hold and therefore cannot ever be wrong; and that is because to differ from the left is to be of ‘the right’, and the right is irredeemably evil. (The idea that to be opposed to the left is not necessarily to be on ‘the right’ or indeed to take any position other than to oppose ideology and its brutal effects is something that the left simply cannot get its head round). And so the true nightmare is that if ‘the right’ turns out to be actually right on anything and the left to be wrong, by accepting this fact the left-winger will by his own definition turn into an evil right-winger. His entire moral and political identity will crumble and he will grow horns and a tail. So to prevent any possibility of this catastrophe occurring, the opponent has to be eliminated.”

[JohnQ1]

“...attack their moral self image...,” but of course, play by civilized rules. All fascists, most muslims, and individually Barack Hussein Obama, share one rule: “If you can win, you should... by any means at your disposal.” I wonder if Mr Horowitz has ever been hit from behind? Naomi makes some sense.

[MrEdd]

The Only Way To Defeat The Left

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