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"This book was necessary, we thought back in the mid-1980s, because our old comrades, instead of allowing the time of their lives to fade into the national historical newsreel, were intent on mythologizing the Sixties (and themselves) in a way that not only evaded but intentionally clouded the truth. This was more than a narcissistic desire to make the era into a left-wing version of Camelot; these mythmakers and nostalgia artists wanted to make the Movement’s “principles”—loathing for America’s power and revisionist contempt for its history—into a blueprint, an intellectual template that could be forced onto the country in the future even though their own brief moment on America’s center stage had ended in failure. We wanted to show what the era had really been all about—how those (including ourselves) who had dictated the agenda of the New Left had slid into an easy contempt for America some time during the Sixties and how this contempt had become the torch that lit their way into the future. We also wanted to show how, under the sway of a utopian fantasy of “social justice,” they (we) had laid siege to the values, institutions, styles and traditions that had made up the natural order of things in America for their parents and their parents’ parents. "

An excerpt and a lot of truth in that tidbit.

Horowitz is a straight thinker without a doubt.

Thanks for the correction on the correct spelling of the SF 9th Circus Court Land. I couldn't remember the spelling.

From Horowitz's comments, I continuously ponder the sheer numbers of these type people that are now filtered into positions of power and authority in government and corporate America.

The mind set of those discussed in the article, are probably like those picked on a lot in grade school, pacifist, and never could muster the spine to at least stand up to the real bullies even if it meant getting into trouble, getting a bloodied nose, black-eye, or worse case, getting one's butt kicked. Therefore, never having taken that step, (like myself on 3-4 occasions) will never understand why, as Americans, we are faced with a dire need to go after the cowardly bullies in the world who so badly seek to have everything the way they want it.

Having gotten the best of a bully or 2 myself, those black eyes and busted lips never really hurt all that much. Having not stood up would have been a deep cut all my life. The sad thing, it was something I never wanted, but those bullies were real and Sir Lancelot was nowhere to be found.