Post Script to Dark Agenda: What is most disconcerting about David Horowitz's new book, with the sub-title "The War to Destroy Christian America," is how little was done to exploit the very powerful idea that the theme of a militant campaign against Christianity actually is. To be sure, the book introduces the idea to good effect. But when all is said what the book really is, is a prelude to the concept of the Leftist assault against Christian religion. I know what I had expected to find when purchasing the book; what I got was a fraction of what the opus could have been. For now I simply do not have the time to work with the idea to best effect; all that can be done here is to outline what might be done in the future. To drive the point home, much more is needed that "baby explanations" of what the Left thinks about religion. Some of that may be necessary, but there was far too much of the obvious and far too little red meat. Suppose someone handed the theme to me to work with. How would I proceed? Priority #1: Find as many anti-Christian statements by Left-wing Democrats as possible, especially "name" Democrats like Diane Feinstein or Keith Ellison. My guess is that, while it would take serious research to do a quality job of it, there probably are 25 or 30 incriminating quotes "out there" to be found. In other words make it clear that the leadership of the Democratic Party is rabid in its 'anti-Christianism.' #2: Find as many anti-Christian statements by hard core Leftists as possible, people who may be nominal Democrats but whose loyalties are to the further political Left. BTW, I never use the word "progressive" to denote these cretins. One of my objectives is to rehabilitate the word "progressive" so that it regains its original meaning from the era of Teddy Roosevelt. That is, I am also waging a war to popularize intellectual history, to popularize history per se, and to destroy the credibility of the media for its many (many) attacks against important words or names from the past as if history has no value and so what if current headline terms butcher the past? I am, after all, a professional historian, and despise people who have no respect for history -such as most journalists. As for TR, he happens to be Hero #1 for Radical Centrists and, at least as I see it, there can be no compromise with the reputation or ideas of Teddy Roosevelt. None whatsoever. This includes my future revenge against everyone (everyone) who has used the acronym ISIS, the name of a major Egyptian Goddess whom Plutarch venerated, as if "who gives a damn about an Egyptian Goddess?" Well, I give a damn and at the first opportunity I will have researchers look up as many quotes as possible of people who habitually used ISIS to refer to the Islamic State and humiliate these people thoroughly; if I can, I will ruin their careers. I feel almost as strongly about the word "progressive." That word belongs to Teddy Roosevelt, not to any goddamned Communists or to historically illiterate journalists. To put it in such terms, I am playing chess; journalists and politicians and others are playing checkers. My objective is to clean up American English, not only to fight battles that city desk editors understand or that boiler plate politicos understand. Any given fight necessarily will be about the obvious, the stuff under one's nose, but it may also be about language, about scores to settle with enemies, about popular culture and abuses of popular culture, and may also have religion as a subtext. Sometimes I go out of my way to be very explicit like the time a year or two ago when I circulated several articles about the Goddess Isis. These things are important to me and I will fight for what is important to me. To return to the objective for #2- The objective is to build a compelling case that provides as much evidence as possible to the effect that all kinds of Leftists of standing are anti-Christian. The objective is to turn public opinion against the Left, across the board, not just rally the Right-wing base. The goal should be to destroy the credibility of the Left and in the process cause the base of the Left to collapse. Hey, it isn't enough, not nearly, to quote Marx or Lenin. You need a dossier on all (that is, as many as possible) current Leftists who are anti-Christian and rub their noses in it for the benefit of the public. Really rub their noses in it. And make sure that the public sees their humiliation. My goal is to destroy the Left completely. #3: Which homosexuals are also Leftists? Find out, make a major issue out of it. I especially want to discredit and humiliate homosexuals. The perverts are my worst enemy and this is total war. #4: It is crucial to find "serious" literature -from journals, scholarly books, etc.- which is anti-Christian. What is the strategy of the enemy intelligentsia? Show the evidence, spell it all out, make a huge stink about it. # 5: Show, with all available evidence, just how incompetent and stupid the Right happens to be. Show weaknesses in Right-wing arguments, show Rightist fallacies, and Rightist unjustified assumptions, and Rightist special pleading, the whole 9 yards. My goal is NOT to please the Right but to inspire and recruit political Independents, especially smart Independents. The Right, for the most part, isn't worth the time of day. Mostly the Right is stupid and retrograde and I want no part of that kind of crap. The whole idea is to make it totally clear that the only good solution to the problem is found in Radical Centrism and that both major political parties are worthless and criminal and contemptible. This is all about replacing today's politics with a politics for the future based on Radical Centrism. If anyone wishes to do business with me it will be on my terms; this should be understood with no possibility of doubt. No-one else has the wherewithal to do what I want to do and I am not about to abdicate the leadership role I intend to play. To give you some idea... Billy R. -- -- 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. 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