Murray: How The Politics Of Race Will Wreck America

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Something he doesn't mention: remember: the left wants to wreck America--that's one of its major, explicitly-stated goals. 

   Of course I don't mean your average Democrat. Your average Democrat doesn't understand what the left's ultimate goals are. And certainly the average Democrat doesn't want to wreck the nation. Your average Democrat just thinks we should be nice... But as you move leftward, anti-American sentiment becomes stronger and more explicit. Sadly, though, you no longer have to move so far as the radical extreme before American eliminativism becomes undeniable. 

   Even Richard Rorty--a devout man of the left, who understood leftism deeply--recognized and worried about the left's anti-Americanism. See e.g.: Achieving Our Country.

   To repeat myself repeating myself: I don't generally hold a faction's extremist kooks against it. Every faction has its crazy radicals. But when the crazy radicals take the helm, and their crazy radicalism becomes more difficult to distinguish from more popular versions of the doctrine, and the relatively more centrist parts of the curve start openly embracing that radicalism... Well, at that point we get to hold it against them.

   The right went crazy over WMDs, and dragged the rest of us into Gulf War Episode II: The Phantom Menace. That certainly cost us more blood and treasure than Woketarianism has--yet. The invasion of Iraq turned on some clear, identifiable, consequential lies. It's perfectly reasonable to see all that as worse than this. I was apoplectic about it at the time--and still fume about it. But it didn't threaten America so profoundly. It didn't involve, for example, brainwashing children to think that America (and whites and men and conservatives...) is evil at its core. Things like massive state surveillance did pose threats to the nation at a very deep level, and do continue to harm it and pave the way for future authoritarians. But these threats didn't go nearly as deep as the threats presented by the totalitarian, illiberal left. The current left challenges the very ideas of truth and reason, the very ideas of America, and of our liberal, constitutional republic. The left long ago adopted irrationalism (including political correctness / Lysenkoism) as, perhaps, its center. Should its insurrection against rationalism and liberalism (in the broad sense) succeed, madness will have won. 

   Quoth Churchill:

...if we fail, then the whole world...including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.