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How Modern Activism Ignores History
American Thinker ^ | 23 Oct, 2026 | John Stephen Frey

Posted on 10/23/2026 6:46:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Bound by shared opposition to Western institutions, Judeo-Christian values, and constitutional conservatism, leftists and Islamists have formed a tactical bloc, even as their underlying worldviews remain fundamentally incompatible.

This journey of life is a complicated path filled with choices and unexpected variables that often confront us without warning. Our formative years are spent in structured learning environments tailored to meet community expectations or, at the very least, geared toward imparting foundational skills. Boundaries are generally established because even the most extreme elements of our culture recognize that total anarchy is unsustainable. However, as cultural norms have shifted dramatically over the past few decades, introducing moral standards, especially those denoting religious conformance into the minds of our youth, is increasingly framed as regressive or malevolent. Hypocrisy runs rampant in this discourse: those most opposed to instilling traditional moral or spiritual guidance turn around with unmasked exuberance to exert their own form of unbridled inculcation.

This dynamic represents a crisis of identity perpetrated upon society’s most vulnerable class: our youth. A controlled propaganda apparatus purports to protect young people from a perceived bureaucracy of religious and conservative ideals, while carrying out the exact form of narrative mind-control it claims to oppose. While most citizens went about their daily lives, raising families and building careers, a left-wing intelligentsia executed a wide-reaching cultural strategy, embedding its worldview through state-provided education and academic institutions.

The results are now on full display in the widespread tolerance for radical ideologies, often presented beneath a thin veil of social progressivism. Yet a new dimension has emerged alongside these traditional political dynamics: an unexpected convergence among groups seeking to disrupt existing civilizational structures. In a striking geopolitical irony, an alliance has formed between radical left-wing elements and fundamentalist Islamist movements.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism; politics

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1 posted on 10/23/2026 6:46:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The two most murderous ideologies in human history are now allies in the never ending battle between evil and good.


2 posted on 10/23/2026 6:47:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
We stay inactive and inert at our own peril.

It should be another Tea Party moment; another NO ERA moment.


3 posted on 10/23/2026 6:49:43 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Progressivism was America's first Postliberal ideology. Ask me for details.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

* STOP ERA


4 posted on 10/23/2026 6:50:15 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Progressivism was America's first Postliberal ideology. Ask me for details.)
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To: MtnClimber

Oh c’mon. Far more simple than this. It’s all for the vote that leftists will sell out to anyone anywhere to get. And that’s where the real history is.

wy69


5 posted on 10/23/2026 9:27:30 AM PDT by whitney69 (uipment )
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