Sipsey Street Irregulars: "The Next Culture War Front."

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

"The Next Culture War Front."

"This is not primarily a culture war over political power. This is spiritual warfare, as the Soloway piece makes plain for those with eyes to see. A political response is necessary, but a political response alone is radically insufficient, in part because it’s nothing but a delaying action. This Weimar America madness has to run its course. We religious conservatives had all better do everything we can to protect our institutions and our families from it. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s not going to get any easier as the years go by, no matter who sits in the White House, and we had better prepare ourselves."

In addition to this article, I suggest that folks get a copy of Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage by Paul Kengor.

Here's a two-part interview with Kengor about the book: The “Takedown” of Family and Marriage: V&V Q&A with Dr. Paul Kengor on his latest book

Part Two.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I just don't get it.
Maybe I'm not in a church where they drill me enough on how I should think & feel.

But, my marriage is no less for the equal rights.
And my gay neighbors are decent and good neighbors.

No big deal to me or my kids or my neighbors...; December 15, 2015 at 1:26 PM
Chiu ChunLing said...: I couldn't quite make out what "the next front" was supposed to be exactly.

I don't buy into the smug assertions of people who claim that the deterioration of marriage as a social institution doesn't hurt their marriage and kids. I don't just mean that the damage is real even if some people are too witless to perceive it, I mean that nobody is really that witless except by a determined act of willful ignorance. But I also don't see how this isn't ground that is already utterly lost and can only be reclaimed by total dissolution of our current civil order. That battle is over except for some shouting.

So the next front is...religious freedom? Already a forgone conclusion. There is nothing to be fought but a delaying action in the hope that the national government will collapse for economic reasons before making forced compliance with the homosexual agenda entirely pervasive. I'll fight a delaying action, if I must, but I won't call it a front. And I'd rather work on getting people to prepare for the economic collapse.

It seems to me that firearms ownership and other off-grid preparations are the culture war front we need to hold and advance right now. But I saw nothing about that so I'm still wondering what exactly the point of the article is.; December 15, 2015 at 11:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Homosexual agenda? BS.
Calm down and think. Your willfully witless imperception of why others demand the same freedoms granted to you, twisted into a loss of your religious freedom, is nonsense.
Don't go looking for war, cultural or otherwise. Unintended consequences, you know.; December 16, 2015 at 7:09 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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"The Next Culture War Front."

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