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THE ISSUE IS NOT THE ISSUE
Powerline ^ | 30 Oct 2023 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 10/31/2023 7:29:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Ever since David Horowitz broke from the radical left back in the 1980s, he has been trying to warn conservatives that they don’t really understand the core principle of the left, and the depths of the left’s power-mad depravity. Conservatives too often think that the Israel-Palestine conflict, or civil rights, crime, income inequality, transgender ideology, climate change, etc, etc., are discrete issues to be argued against the left with reason and facts. To which Horowitz replies: The issue is not the issue—the issue is revolution! (And a key corollary is: the more violent, the better. Hence the approval and celebration of Hamas on October 7.)

The aftermath of October 7 ought to have revealed this truth more vividly than any event of the last 50 years. October 7 provided the spark for massive pro-Hamas demonstrations throughout the world and especially on college campuses. It is legitimized and brought out of the shadows the anti-Semitism long latent on the left, just waiting for a catalyst to organize spontaneously to vent their rage and hate. But it represents more than this.

Two items: first, here’s Judith Butler, the Berkeley feminist who is one of the originators of trans-gender ideology and the dense jargon that accompanies “intersectionality,” describing in 2006 how Hamas and Hezbollah are part of the “progressive global left”....


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 202310; 20231007; antisemitism; berkeley; domesticenemies; donatefreerepublic; feminist; hamas; hezbollah; insurrection; judithbutler; leftwingnuts; lgbtqrstuvwxyz; palestinians; progressiveleft; progressives; revolution; transgenderism; violence
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1 posted on 10/31/2023 7:29:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Taxman

ping


2 posted on 10/31/2023 7:34:23 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!))
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To: Rummyfan
There is a solution. But no one says it aloud. Yet.

Every day the crazed Left outs themselves. With the expectation their Marxism will survive.

3 posted on 10/31/2023 7:40:38 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Rummyfan
There is a solution. But no one says it aloud. Yet.

Every day the crazed Left outs themselves. With the expectation their Marxism will survive.

4 posted on 10/31/2023 7:41:22 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

“ There is a solution. But no one says it aloud. Yet.”

Apparently you don’t either.


5 posted on 10/31/2023 7:51:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rummyfan

Dakota Meyers once said of the Taliban and other terrorists.... “How do you negotiate with people who wake up every day trying to think of ways they can kill us....these people hate us just because they hate us”...”These people are evil”.

If Israel doesn’t do it and with our help who’s going to eradicate them?


6 posted on 10/31/2023 7:51:59 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Rummyfan

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7 posted on 10/31/2023 7:57:58 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Rummyfan

I always CRINGE when people here call Leftists dumb. If they were dumb, they’d be in the mountains waging a gorilla war against the US, and getting their asses kicked.

They’re not dumb, they knew they needed to TAKE OVER the institutions from the inside, and they have been INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL at that.

That’s not being “dumb”, that is being INGENIOUS and they’ve totally OUTSMARTED our side, which continues to say stupid things to them like “the grid cannot handle Electric Cars”, “kids need to learn sounds (phonics) to be able to read”...as if Leftist leaders don’t already know that! Idiots, absolute IDIOTS on our side.


8 posted on 10/31/2023 8:03:43 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Rummyfan

Listen to Horowitz. Like Orwell, he “saw the elephant” before he started writing about it.


9 posted on 10/31/2023 8:07:29 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

And the Left hates him for giving away WHO they are.

We should listen to him— he knows how to defeat them.


10 posted on 10/31/2023 8:19:37 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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To: Rummyfan

I just said this on another thread but it might fit this one even better.

The insanity the left is promulgating is a calculated strategy not a hypocrisy.
The aim is to create as much chaos as possible in order to break society.

Cloward and Piven.


11 posted on 10/31/2023 8:53:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Rummyfan
here’s Judith Butler, the Berkeley feminist

Mossad should grab her, dress her in an IDF uniform, and dump her off in northern Gaza with a cellphone.

The Hamanimals would shortly be streaming as she got the Shani Louk treatment...

12 posted on 10/31/2023 9:06:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Rummyfan

“The issue is not the issue—the issue is revolution! “

The issue is power.


13 posted on 10/31/2023 9:17:11 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BobL

“I always CRINGE when people here call Leftists dumb. If they were dumb, they’d be in the mountains waging a gorilla war against the US, and getting their asses kicked.”

Absolutely agree. Not only are we the dumb ones, we are the lazy ones.

They have armies of activists. We have battalions of couch potatoes.

They have wiped the floor with us in this culture war, and have no intention of stopping.


14 posted on 10/31/2023 9:23:13 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: jonascord

Here it is: KTF and KTA.


15 posted on 10/31/2023 9:26:47 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: aquila48

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

Above is a thread (from 2008) with the entire 1938 booklet called “The Revolution Was” regarding FDR and the New Deal. Obama took some of the stuff FDR said and did word for word. And Obama and his ilk are still in control.

Excerpt:

“Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another....The effect was to keep people excited about one thing at a time, and divided, while steadily through all the uproar of outrage and confusion a certain end, held constantly in view, was pursued by main intention.

The end held constantly in view was power.”


16 posted on 10/31/2023 9:31:26 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

Orwell...

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. “


17 posted on 10/31/2023 9:45:09 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

That booklet from 1938 (a long but interesting read) goes through the main points of the New Deal. I swear, some of it was like reading what Obama did to the country.


18 posted on 10/31/2023 10:00:04 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: BobL

+1 000 000 !


19 posted on 10/31/2023 10:26:04 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Rummyfan

hillary is triangulating

remember that old clinton saw


20 posted on 10/31/2023 10:54:01 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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