You Can’t Compromise with Culture Warriors

Cut to the nut of the matter -

The “Culture War” as conducted by the left, is simply using the State to persecute and exterminate Christians.

All these other intermediate steps are just stepping stones to get there.

LOL! I’ve never had that impression of Jonah Goldberg. We’re the same age with a lot of cultural influences in common, and that doesn’t include drugs.

It’s more ... “I don’t want this to happen, and so I firmly believe it won’t, won’t, won’t!”

that totally illogical line, after his logical presentation that preceded it.

Cultural programming. You lay out evidence that leads to an obvious deduction ... but then you conclude the opposite, because the logical outcome is psychologically unacceptable.

He can look at the evidence rationally, but following where it leads is too scary. Funny, it's not too scary for me. Maybe I've been beaten up by life more than Jonah has, for all we have in common.

Ah Jonah is a moderate. Fiscally conservative, but socially moderate. I know plenty of them. They think the country will get back on track if we elect someone like Jeb Bush (not saying Jonah is for Jeb), because it can't really happen here in America. Tomorrow will be just another day, like today is, and yesterday was. They see there is a problem, but they think it can be fixed. Hope springs eternal.

I on the other hand think electing Ted Cruz, for whom I am all in, will not be able to get the country back on track. Headed in the right direction, however, he could only maintain that course for 8 years at best. The problems are too many, and expanding rapidly, for any one human savior to execute that miracle.

In addition, there are too many people in this country who actually want to fundamentally change her. They include politicians (on both sides of the aisle), press, some in the military, and native, as well as, foreign born civilians.

Since there is a growing trend of attacking our creator, I don't necessarily see God coming to our aid.

Yes, I am very pessimistic, especially after the recent Supreme Court decisions where the court rewrite laws and ignores the Constitution.

I fear the worse, and sooner rather than later.

I agree with you. I was thinking, reading Mark Steyn’s column this morning:
http://www.steynonline.com/
that there’s very little chance of “our side” competing with either militant homosexualism or militant Islam. A belief system that exists to crush all opposition will always have an advantage over one that isn’t interested in that.

Was that the Going with the Flow piece?

In it he says:

I started the day on Bill Bennett's radio show, which is always fun. Jonah Goldberg was on before me, and advanced the proposition, after the Supreme Court's almighty constitutional bender last week, that it wasn't so bad; conservatives who just pottered around in their own world and tended to their families would still be able to lead lives largely unbattered by the forces of "progress". A few minutes later, one of Bill's listeners, Claudine, came on and said that's what Germans reckoned in the 1930s: just keep your head down and the storm will pass. How'd that work out?

When Jonah hits it out of the park, he then refuses to run the bases. Mark Steyn is not only funny when hitting it out of the park, he runs the bases. Very good piece by him.

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