David Horowitz of Freedom Center posted an article today on FrontPageMagazine titled “Where We Are and What We are Facing.” He was raised in
a Communist family and figured out as a young man that the Communist party was
pure evil; he analyzes today’s crises
through that lens. Here is an extract:
The “social justice” radicals still
have the best slogans. They call themselves progressives but are actually
reactionaries. They call themselves liberals but are actually bigots. They say
they’re for peace when they are organized for war. It is always the same war:
to bring down the United States of America.
Thanks mainly to their growing
influence, we live in extreme times, where things are not what they are made to
seem, and monstrous accusations are leveled at individuals without restraint.
As a result, we live in an atmosphere of intimidation, where people can lose
their livelihoods, their careers and even their lives if they get on the wrong
side of leftist crusaders. That is a terrible thing to have to say in this once
free country, but it is something that has become too obvious to deny.
. . .
Forty years ago, I left the left
when I saw that it was a destructive force that would never change. Leftists do
not tolerate dissenters in their ranks. They suppress politically incorrect
ideas and cast out their perpetrators, demonizing them in the process. As a
result, leftists never learn from their “mistakes” or take responsibility for
their crimes. Thus, in every generation a new destructive crusade for “social
justice” is launched, oblivious of the disasters previous radical campaigns
left in their wakes.
The leaders of Black Lives Matter
proclaim “We are trained Marxists,” as though that were a badge of honor rather
than a confession of dangerous ignorance and a kiss of death. Every successful
Marxist revolution without exception has established a ruthless police state,
which more often than not conducts genocidal persecutions of ethnic minorities.
In other words, social injustice on an epic scale. Yet that is the
prospect we face in a reactionary left that has learned nothing from the past
and is intent on destroying the most tolerant, inclusive, egalitarian society
ever created. The good news is that a patriotic movement has risen, rededicated
to the propositions that all men are created equal and endowed with God-given
rights to life and liberty, and is prepared to defend them.
The full article is here.
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