in the course of the ensuing decades, turned on western civ with a vengeance.

Should have been:
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in the course of the ensuing decades, began an array of scurrilous and undermining attacks on the basis for Western Civ. Deconstruction, Moral Relativism, Attacks on science and the scientific method, attacks on free speech and free thought, all aspects of Christianity and Judaism…
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There lies your secret. To reject and vilify not just PC but the entire PostModernist Moral Relativist mindset behind it.

PostModernist Liberalism is a cancer eating away at the foundations of Western Civ. It directly attacks the essential underpinnings of it, and that is — and has always been — its aim.

When the proud and arrogant Classical Liberals of post WWI looked at what their arrogantly “superior” culture had done with all the wonders they had created, a large percentage of them turned on modern western civ with a vengeance, and, in the course of the ensuing decades, turned on western civ with a vengeance.

And the twisted distortion of PostModern Liberalism is the result. It aims to destroy everything that makes Western Civ worthwhile — its Judeo-Christian elements, as well as the heritage of Greek thought and ideals. If you look closely at many of its techniques, they are aimed to directly counter or oppose, and to denigrate and belie, classical notions of Truth, Quality, Decency, Honor, Faith, and Loyalty. It would be hard to deliberately invent a system more diametrically opposed to everything that makes Western Civ work, and work so incredibly well. A future, more than likely impoverished, generation will likely damn the Western Intellectuals from the 20s to the 70s, who did everything possible to destroy the wealthiest, most prosperous and generous civilization humans have ever produced.

What We Lost In The Great War

Elites infighting is not new.

The USSR had been riding the path to penury for decades.

Nothing stirred until the top players turned on each other.

And their trigger event was the shattering of the Stalinist dream — when Desert Storm took their proxy apart using the same everything that would’ve been used in Europe.

To change the politics, change the culture.

The notion your friend ought to understand is the civilizational nature of humankind is competitive. Activist.

We can aspire to Locke, but to do so effectively, we must serve Hobbes. In other words, building peace on our terms requires dominance and control on our terms. We can afford to be fuzzy about some things only if we’re clear about the fundamentals.

There’s your answer. Take a step back and step down and work on the level of values, principles, and premises to correct the “PC thought”, reset the foundation, and then address the issues.

We need to reframe the zeitgeist at the core, fundamental, foundational level.

A reason I advocate for setting the record straight on the ‘why’ of Operation Iraqi Freedom – apart from the issue itself – is all the fundamental values, principles, and premises of American leadership of the free world were invested in the Iraq mission since 1990, not just OIF.

Competitors like Russia understand stigmatizing the paradigm of OIF subverts the premise of American leadership of the free world not limited to Iraq nor limited even to the Middle East for that matter.

As I’ve said here before, the false narrative against OIF is patient zero for the rest. If you can set the record straight on OIF in the zeitgeist, while reviving OIF’s intrinsic fundamental values, principles, and premises of American leadership, then you’ll restore the core building block necessary to reframe the whole discourse in order to constructively address the spectrum of issues that relate to American leadership of the free world.

A “Christian” bashing Christians.

The enemy is within … I blame the voters.

We take turns leading the prayer. One guy brought in several older prayers, and as we took turns leading them, one woman nearly choked. Her older prayer referenced praying for muslims, and referenced either paganism or heresy.

After class, one more outspoken woman said something to the guy who brought it, along the lines of how we Catholics no longer think that way about muslims, and how it could seem that he thought islam was a religion of violence. His very brief answer (said with a smile) was ‘well, if the shoe fits…’

I’m still admiring his restrained reply. People are so brainwashed.

And yes, most liberals believe the worst about conservatives. Many years ago, I mentioned something political to a liberal ‘friend’. She openly refused to talk about it, which was fine. But I had to mention to her that I was upset that regular liberals thought regular conservatives were evil. And did she think that too? She angrily refused to discuss it.

Her refusal was enough of an answer. That exchange made me realize what we truly are dealing with.

The question then comes down to exactly who is Beverly’s friend and what is she trying to protect. Her friend obviously has no problem when people she likes burns people alive, murders homosexuals, and suppresses women. The fact that she can accept those evils without difficulty means that there is something deeper which she values above her stated values of female and homosexual emancipation.

My take on Beverly’s friend and on the left in general is that their real agenda is a much more profound emancipation, an emancipation of the savage beast which is hedged in by the rules set in place by Judaism/Christianity and which have been built into our society.

One of the most controversial modern philosophers is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche who captured the moral consequences for Western Civilization because the intellectuals have rejected God. His claims are all the more chilling since Nietzsche was himself a former believer who spoke about his own transition towards what he termed a manly paganism in which the will to power over other people is the highest good. Nietzsche like modern leftists loved Islam because the moral code in Islam is so similar to the natural behaviors of an uncivilized man who indulges his lusts freely at the expense of anyone who is weaker.