1. It is a ‘war’. Not a physical one – although that remains a possibility – but a conflict in which each side sees the victory of the other as an ‘existential threat’. When Richard Nixon ran against John F. Kennedy, this was not the case. It began to assume this character during the Reagan years – on the part of a large section of the Left. They had gotten used to calling Nixon a ‘fascist’, and doubled down on Reagan. Newer generations have absorbed this mentality and added to it.
And now they’re right. Not because we have changed, but because they have. A significant section of the Left – whose influence extends far beyond its mere numbers – despises their own country (and, if they think about it, Western civilization in general). They have no coherent ideology, and no proposed replacement for the kind of society they hate … they just hate it.
So the stakes are high. Even if your personal temperament is not that of an ‘activist’, you should be considering what you can do to oppose the people who want to destroy our civilization.
The apartment building we live in is beginning to smell of smoke. We can hear the crackling of the flames in the basement. Some of us – “activists” – like to play fireman. But even if that’s not your thing, at the moment, you should be thinking about how to put the fire out. What’s for sure is, it’s not politics as usual. Politics as usual brought us to this point.