Rod Dreher on Leftism

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What a clarifying moment this is in the West. We have all seen the jaw-dropping alacrity with which so many leftists, especially within the academy, have rushed to defend the Hamas storm troopers. If you think this is merely about Israel and Hamas, you need to wake up. The people who are celebrating the massacre of innocent Jews in the name of “liberation” are the same people who would celebrate the massacre of you, if they had the chance.

You think I’m wrong? Today, I write in The European Conservative about the situation in 2017 with Tommy J. Curry, a radical black professor who at the time was on the philosophy faculty at Texas A&M. A reader of mine at The American Conservative who was also either a student or faculty member at A&M brought to my attention how the university flipped out about the racist white activist Richard Spencer coming to campus, but tolerated a black professor making racist comments even more extreme than Spencer. I looked into it, and this, excerpted from my TEC piece today, is what I found:

As usual, Dreher makes a number of good points, but in the end, as usual, it is all just talk. The one and only person who can turn things around, Donald J. Trump, he hates and refuses to support. And for no good reasons that I can discern. So what's the point, Rod? Are you just going to float above the fray forever? Which side are you on?

You know it is a war to the death, and yet you refuse to take sides.  We scribblers enjoy the hell out of our daily word-slinging. And if you can turn a buck from it, all the better. So I understand why you write, write, write, and then write some more. You're good at it and people value and like to do what they are good it. But how does this cohere with your 'Benedictine' side? What sort of spiritual life can you possibly have given all this frenetic writing that yet issues in no practical commitment?  When do you have time to pray, meditate, shut off the verbal flow, and enter the Silence? "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10)

Comments

[Joe Odegaard]

Lucibello can, and does, manipulate the noise. But he cannot manipulate the Silence. The Silence belongs to God. We need to go there often. Especially these days.

[Gary Huber]

Unfortunately, the only thing Trump will do is lose to Biden. If he's our last hope, then we are in really bad shape.

[Joe Odegaard]

Biden is old and feeble (see link below). Trump would run rings around him. But it is therefore highly unlikely that Biden will be the next presidential candidate of the Domestic Enemy party.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/is_there_some_reason_why_joe_biden_cant_use_a_cane.html