The loss of cultural confidence was precisely what the Frankfurt School and its descendants sought and still seek to engender. It is their only path to victory, which is why — even as they have seized the high ground of the academy and the media — they continue to roll over and expose their bellies like whipped curs whenever they are directly confronted, as Donald Trump is demonstrating. Pleas for “tolerance,” a weakness masquerading as a virtue, still serve the Amen corner of Academia, Corporate America, and Hollywood and their Washington Establishment well. It is long past time to give them a taste of their own “repressive tolerance,” a’la Marcuse, to mark the boundary clearly between dissent and sedition, between advocacy and treason. By consistently claiming that some solutions are “off limits” to “civilized people” the “inside the DC Beltway” undermine the very principles of civilization they pretend to advocate — the first of which is the right to civilizational defense and personal self defense. Those who are howling about Trump’s statements regarding Muslims are a suicide cult enticing the rest of us to join them.
But the moral high ground is not yet theirs, as much as they would wish it so. Constantly forced into a strategy of subterfuge, dissimulation, misdirection, and open deception — I have dubbed it “American taqiyya,” a counterpart to the Muslim concept of religiously acceptable dissimulation — there is no lie the Left will not tell in the furtherance of its sociopolitical goals. To maintain the martial metaphor, they are essentially double agents, operating behind the lines of Western Civilization. That they are not called out and dealt with aggressively in the court of public opinion and, when necessary, in courts of law, is one of the shames of our age. The only weapon they have is words — but we can hear the music behind them.
Inspired by Michael Walsh
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace — pg. 111-112
