Of course you are right about the responsibility of ll - but there is a distinction to be made between those in power who create the condition that is ripe for appeasement and the rest who feel powerless and confused about how to react
Agree and there is a responsibility of those who put, or allowed, those people into power to hold them accountable, or not afford them the power to begin with. People who vote these incompetent, coward, corrupt politicians into power share a great deal of the responsibility for their actions.
Moral cowardice and fear surely play a large part in this insidious phenomenon, but it is not isolated to just the so called elites or “leaders” of modern societies. Most everyone shares in this blame, either overtly or by staying silent. Human nature, for at least part of society. Seems best to not antagonize those prepared to kill you for the truth and go after those who would encourage you for the truth.
Maybe Enoch Powell was smarter than left wing interpretations allowed. Being cautious about immigration is not anti-foreigner per se, but it always amazes me how western countries allow in so many whose worldview is diametrically opposed to everything that facilitated their wonderful country in the first place. Oh, and especially if many of said immigrants actually think it’s ok to kill you (only on religious grounds of course). Cowards indeed.
An excellent piece: how can one fight a thing if you can't (or refuse to) name it? My sense is that the Left have started to reap what they have sown; the Left have intentionally or otherwise acted as Trojan horse to Islamism, and as a force they seem to have been swallowed by this. For many on the Left they saw so many superficial similarities with Muslim communities- domestically and internationally - that allowed them to pose as allies to an 'oppressed' group that seemed to challenge the existing order.
That many in the Muslim community suffer the effects different outcomes is taken as evidence of discrimination, the Left attributed this to structural inequality, and from this the Left discovered a new raison d'etre. This process is repeated internationally with the perverse outcome that the Left embraced (or excused) a reactionary, militaristic expansionist ideology in the name of anti-Imperialism.
The tragedy of all this is that the reverse is true. In abandoning it's historic belief in Universalism and Liberation of the individual the Left has embraced the very opposite of what it used to stand for. The biggest barrier we have is that we need to convince the constituency that the Left spoke to that they are conniving at the destruction of everything they said they believed in, and which many still do hold as fundamental, insights that they, and we have benefitted from. The problem now is that we are seeing this process at it’s conclusion and the ‘Left’ now exists in name only with a social base and values far removed from its origin.
Unfortunately the Left is not the Left anymore. It suffers from amnesia and does not remember what it once stood for.
Of course you are right about the responsibility of ll - but there is a distinction to be made between those in power who create the condition that is ripe for appeasement and the rest who feel powerless and confused about how to react
Agree and there is a responsibility of those who put, or allowed, those people into power to hold them accountable, or not afford them the power to begin with. People who vote these incompetent, coward, corrupt politicians into power share a great deal of the responsibility for their actions.
Moral cowardice and fear surely play a large part in this insidious phenomenon, but it is not isolated to just the so called elites or “leaders” of modern societies. Most everyone shares in this blame, either overtly or by staying silent. Human nature, for at least part of society. Seems best to not antagonize those prepared to kill you for the truth and go after those who would encourage you for the truth.
Good article thank you.
Maybe Enoch Powell was smarter than left wing interpretations allowed. Being cautious about immigration is not anti-foreigner per se, but it always amazes me how western countries allow in so many whose worldview is diametrically opposed to everything that facilitated their wonderful country in the first place. Oh, and especially if many of said immigrants actually think it’s ok to kill you (only on religious grounds of course). Cowards indeed.
Indeed
Good question answer - 'not for long'. We need to get our act together.
An excellent piece: how can one fight a thing if you can't (or refuse to) name it? My sense is that the Left have started to reap what they have sown; the Left have intentionally or otherwise acted as Trojan horse to Islamism, and as a force they seem to have been swallowed by this. For many on the Left they saw so many superficial similarities with Muslim communities- domestically and internationally - that allowed them to pose as allies to an 'oppressed' group that seemed to challenge the existing order.
That many in the Muslim community suffer the effects different outcomes is taken as evidence of discrimination, the Left attributed this to structural inequality, and from this the Left discovered a new raison d'etre. This process is repeated internationally with the perverse outcome that the Left embraced (or excused) a reactionary, militaristic expansionist ideology in the name of anti-Imperialism.
The tragedy of all this is that the reverse is true. In abandoning it's historic belief in Universalism and Liberation of the individual the Left has embraced the very opposite of what it used to stand for. The biggest barrier we have is that we need to convince the constituency that the Left spoke to that they are conniving at the destruction of everything they said they believed in, and which many still do hold as fundamental, insights that they, and we have benefitted from. The problem now is that we are seeing this process at it’s conclusion and the ‘Left’ now exists in name only with a social base and values far removed from its origin.