Mark Steyn In Stoughton | Right Wing Granny:
The big difference between The West and Islam, even according to this "Right Wing Granny's" review of Steyn is that women and men are equal, we don't hang homos and your religion is nobody's business.
Who fights and dies for things like these?
Nobody.
Even the LGBT crowd hate George Bush far more than they dislike Islam.
Islam is strong very largely because it is a "we" vs a "you", and the "we" --although it certainly has its internal strife-- is self-confident, unapologetic and ethnically based. It is a religion of angry and self-righteous ThirdWorld People.
The West has no "we" anymore, least of all, an identity based on anything so craven and primitive and Nazi-like as blood or race or common history thereof.
In the following war, Libertarians and Unitarians United For Niceness vs The Chinese Communist Party, who would you place your bets on?
If all "The West" is about is feminism, gay rights and irreligion, it's toast.
Even its defenders are clueless.
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3 comments:
Whilst I agree with libertarians about matters of personal liberties, I agree that they are a largely impotent movement, too obsessed with "do your own thing" and viewing all choices that don't lead to bloody murder as legitimate to be effective. At worst, they siphon off enough votes from wishy-washy Republicans to hand the vote over to the pie-in-the-sky Democrats. At best, they are cheerleaders for freedom. But it's still the conservatives who still have to play the game.
-Sean
Jonah Goldberg has a line somewhere that, in a pitched battle with liberals, you send your Libertarian brigade into the breach, but when the battle is over, you never make them part of the government.
My departure from libertarianism was when I realized that it's all based on a single axiom and that they can't really deal with the fact of human culture. But it was a helpful step out of being a Democrat!
It's just that the libertarians I know seem too scattered and divided to be politically effective. Conservatives, even if they have libertarian leanings, have learned to organize fairly well thanks to the actions of the Tea Party. And yes, the libertarians are a little too axiomatic for my taste, in a manner that seems self-defeating. Sounds familiar.
I guess an analogy is: libertarians are Viking berserkers, conservatives are Roman legionnaires. Both can get the job done, but one group is a little more orderly than the other.
I don't know if you have noticed this, but conservatives, particularly young ones, seem to be moving more libertarian in their views. Not fully, but certainly on the social issues. It will be interesting to see what effect that has on the culture wars.
-Sean
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