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We are finally reaping the rewards of postmodernism. Thirty years of radical relativism propagated by my addled and destructive generation in the universities, seemingly unchallenged by parents or university regents adds up to this: People believe that there is no objective truth. Truth has become something to be invented, rather than pursued.

The problem is that concrete moral issues have been preempted by the liberal presumption of privacy, and the relentless extension of the liberal language of autonomy has removed a common moral framework from our society. Somewhere we have lost our hold on the sense that there is a moral order independent of our choices and wishes.

We can point to many suspects in history as the causes of this loss, but only their common character really matters. It is the fate of a liberal political tradition to progressively consume its own moral substance. By removing more and more of the controverted issues from the public sphere and placing them in the private realm, it conveys the inexorable sense that there is no common moral order. There are only the "values" we choose to apply to ourselves. All that matters is that we are legally right in asserting our rights claims, and the legal order is finally accepted as the only moral order.

The independent moral order has not been abolished, of course. The fact that pornographers pose as (moral) champions of the First Amendment may be the clearest evidence that we still have in our civil society some sense of morality, and within that inchoate germ of self-realization lies the best hope for a moral reawakening. The inescapability of an order of good and evil, which is not ours to command but by which we will eventually be measured, is a steady pressure on our individual consciences, and it is made manifest by the elaborateness of attempts to deny it.

Rights Without Right

... there is no objective truth. Truth has become something to be invented, rather than pursued. Reasoned argument is a tool of white males so has no value. If you feel it, only then can it be true. War feels bad, therefore in every case is bad, and any argument against it will do. Make it up. Exaggerate. Blow conspiracy theories hard. It doesn't matter.

This, in a nutshell, is the foundation for the "principles" of the Democrat party.

Even for a Cannuk, she gets it right on!

This is really the ultimate battle to be fought in the USA, is it not? Clearly it is not a matter of capability to fight and win, the issue is our willingness. The left presents a stark and sobering contrast to what we really and truly are. George Bush more dangerous than Saddam, this is what they believe!

The left will not give up, they have infiltrated our institutions, universities, government, media and churches. They have poisoned millions of people with their negative hate. How to we uproot them and discredit them? They have not lost yet, but we have won an important victory.

I copied this article and sent it to the rest of clan noumenon with this comment:

Dear Family:

Our military is doing a fantastic job over in Iraq – we have a job to do here. Our job is to hold liberals and those like them accountable for the lies they live and the hate they spread. We have to get in their faces and on their cases. And since these people won’t listen to reason; since they will never, never admit that they’re wrong; since their hatred of this country and everything that it stands for can never be swayed – the only options left for us are to either shun them or go nuclear on them.

We can shun them by refusing to speak to them. We can shun them by refusing to do business with them. We can shun them by turning our backs on them when they speak.

We can go nuclear on them by getting right in their faces with righteous anger - and tell them exactly who and what they are. We can go nuclear on them by encouraging others to stand up to them with the same righteous anger. And if they offer violence as a response, then we can and should use overwhelming force to defeat them.

As the Bradley Fighting Vehicle commander said as he was on the road to Baghdad – “God and country baby! We’re coming in. That’s why we’re doing this and we are going to WIN!”