David and Goliath It is 100% certain that, if it ever mattered, David Horowitz could count on my defending his right to speak in public, to publish, to organize people around a cause he promotes, all of that. It is also 100% certain that David Horowitz has no such feelings about my rights. None. I have just completed reading Dark Agenda. The book is filled with views that are similar to my own, albeit more "liberal" in nearly every case. That is, when I take conservative stands, there is no doubt whatsoever where I am coming from. However, I sometimes take "liberal" stands and, when this is the case, on various issues my point of view makes liberals seem conservative. I also take a good number of positions that defy Left vs Right classification and, when possible, prefer original solutions to political problems. That is, I am a Radical Centrist through and through. Unfortunately, Horowitz has cast his lot with the political Right. As things are that is better than the political Left, but this is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the GOP or of what passes for conservatism these days. The forced choice we all must make is between the ugly politics of the diseased Left and the incompetent politics of the uninformed and wishy-washy Right. OK, sometimes I "vote" with the Right -but this does not mean that I like it. I hate it, as a matter of fact. No-one should expect me to support the political Right in any way except insofar as the Right is less bad than the Left. This is the major problem with Dark Agenda, it gives the Right a free pass for all of its weaknesses and failings and dumps all over the Left as if there wasn't as much as one good thing to say about it. That kind of approach is not anything I can identify with. Nor do I buy, for one minute, the view that Ronald Reagan was some sort of American saint. He was better than each alternative choice we were given but that is as far as it went. And Reagan's covert accommodation Re: homosexuals, was obvious to everyone who was informed, which means that the leadership of the Republican Party didn't see a thing. I've written extensively on this matter including dredging up RR's support for Troy Perry when Perry organized the Metropolitan Community (fake) Church in California while Reagan was governor. As president, RR did absolutely nothing to derail the sodomy express. And didn't anyone notice his conspicuous role at Rock Hudson's funeral? Yet Horowitz talked about Reagan as if he was a crusader for heterosexual normality vs homosexual abnormality. Give me a break; Horowitz's characterization was a whitewash. Some of this has to do with the specifics of Christian faith, including the ludicrous and defamatory claim of the MCC that Jesus was homosexual or at a minimum approved of homosexuality. As if chapter 11 of the Gospel of Matthew was never written nor its parallel in Luke. That is, and Buckley blatantly lied abut this, Jesus outright condemned sodomy in the "alas Chorazin, alas Bethsaida" pericope saying that bad as the sodomites of the past were, the sodomites of his own era were even worse and deserved eternal punishment in Hell. This, for a Christian is about as serious as it gets. As if Horowitz was the only person to miss the significance of this passage. Apparently not even one Republican pointed this out to Reagan. Nor did any Republican point out the fact that the Apostle Paul said the following: ...God has given them up to the vileness of their own desires, and the consequent degradation of their bodies, 25because they have bartered away the true God for a false one, [Or: the truth of God for a lie.] and have offered reverence and worship to created things instead of to the Creator, who is blessed for ever; amen. 26In consequence, I say. God has given them up to shameful passions. Their women have exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, 27and their men in turn, giving up natural relations with women, burn with lust for one another; males behave indecently with males, and are paid in their own persons the fitting wage of such perversion. 28Thus, because they have not seen fit to acknowledge God, he has given them up to their own depraved reason. This leads them to break all rules of conduct. 29They are filled with every kind of injustice, mischief, rapacity, and malice; they are one mass of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and malevolence; whisperers 30and scandal-mongers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent new kinds of mischief, they show no loyalty to parents, 31no conscience, no fidelity to their plighted word; they are without natural affection and without pity. 32They know well enough the just decree of God, that those who behave like this deserve to die, and yet they do it; not only so, they actually applaud such practices. What part of "homosexuality is sick and evil" don't you understand? This, of course, is not a good political position to take -unless you cited such verses objectively, viz, "this is what Christians believe." But there is a huge literature about homosexuality as a morbid psychopathology that can be made use of in politics but absolutely no-one on the mainstream political Right did so and nobody held Reagan's feet to the fire. Thus he went about his business, placating the homosexuals of Hollywood, throwing an occasional table scrap to Evangelicals as sops. I have written at considerable length about this, too, yet the Republican establishment has done its part also to see that my thoroughly researched and carefully crafted writings are never published. To hell with the political Right, in other words. Not just the political Left. The Left is my sworn enemy, the Right offers me nothing and as far as I can tell it, too, is my enemy. -------------------------------- I have zero incentive to compromise with anybody. And why should I? -------------------------------- Nonetheless I do have a plan. Simply this: The moment I have some kind of substantial resources to work with, get busy and create an alternative media that reflects values I live for and challenges the media of both the Left and the Right. That is, create a new center of political gravity in America. Horowitz glowingly approved of Thomas Jefferson's "denomination of one." I can identify with that. Some people might say that I also am a political party of one. If that is how it must be, I can live with that. It is far better than toadying to Donald Trump, America's very own blowhard in chief, our very own half-educated bozo, even if, unaccountably, he sometimes does things very right How in the hell did Trump graduate from an "Ivy League" university? He has all the sophistication of a street thug from the Bronx. He does have one thing going for him, though. He is better than ANY current Democrat vying for the White House. Its not even close. Billy -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
