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When you peel back the onion, the Left has always been after one thing: absolute power. It was true (and obvious) in Stalin’s time and it is true now. The best way to successfully wield absolute power is to totally subvert the individual to the State. To do that, one must tear down the attitudes, values, and traditions that the majority holds dear and replace them with a new, different set. This is a variant on the technique used in military basic training. That is part of the reason why the Left supports things like rampant immigration, Gay marriage, and radical feminism while eschewing traditional Western religions. Radical Islam fits the bill in two respects. First, like the Left, it seeks the overthrow of Judeo/Christian culture. Second, and more importantly, Islamic clerics have close to absolute power over their adherents. If the Mullahs can motivate someone to be a suicide bomber, convincing them to pay higher taxes should be a piece of cake. Many in the Left must salivate at the thought of having that much control over the individual. At some point, the Left will have to choose between radical Islam and the continued embrace of its traditional interest groups (gays, feminists, etc). I predict they will chose the former, because ultimately the Islamists will be more numerous (in 30-50 years or so).

You have provided a very astute observation, and I agree with most of what you say. Yes, the left lusts after absolute power, and to achieve that end they must destroy the foundations of the West. Multiculturalism is the hammer they wield to smash the West.

But where I disagree with you is the characterization of the West as Judeo-Christian. It is not. The West is Hellenistic-Christan. And when we forget that magnificent amalgam, we will be lost and crumble. Giving us amnesia of that amalgam is precisely the aim of the political Left.

The West is Hellenistic-Christian.

The most fundamental ideas -- such as privacy, modesty, personal space (your bathroom e.g.) -- are Judaic. They go back to the cleanliness and godliness of the temple priests, the Levites and Zadokites (Sadducees), whose ablutions and customs of cleanliness were taken up by the Essenes and transmitted by them to the proto-Christians. Greco-Roman ideas like, say, mass public latrines and baths with full nudity and sexual activity in the alcoves (exedrae) have been repudiated in our culture, and the recrudescence of "Greek" sexual mores is almost exclusively homosexual and decayed.