{"id":1518987,"date":"2022-06-16T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518987"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:35:34","slug":"horowitz-radicals-are-racist-criminals-driving-america-towards-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/horowitz-radicals-are-racist-criminals-driving-america-towards-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Horowitz: \u2018Radicals\u2019 Are Racist Criminals Driving America Towards The Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhorowitz-radicals-are-racist-criminals-driving-america-towards-the-abyss%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1518987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The crisis currently facing our nation is a crisis of faith \u2013 faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in the rule of law, and faith in the principle of equality before the law. The root cause of the lawlessness that is consuming our country is the monopoly of the executive power in Washington by a political party that has fallen under the control of the radical Left. This Left describes itself as \u201cprogressive,\u201d but is focused on the goal of \u201cre-imagining\u201d American institutions and principles, in other words of dismantling the constitutional order that created the prosperity and freedoms that have shaped this country since its beginnings. <\/p>\n<p> Having been born into this political Left and then rejected it, I have acquired an intimate perspective on its nature, and the threat it poses to the American future, which is grave. I was raised by Communists who always referred to themselves as \u201cprogressives,\u201d and were sworn enemies of America and its institutions, as was I. We saw ourselves as warriors for social justice, acting on the \u201cright side\u201d of history.<\/p>\n<p>We could not have been more mistaken. The \u201cmoral arc\u201d of history is not \u201cbent towards justice,\u201d as progressives like to say. If it were, the 20th Century would be the most enlightened instead of the scene of the greatest atrocities and oppressions on human record. Worse yet, for this progressive myth, these atrocities and oppressions were perpetrated by progressives in the name of \u201csocial justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The practical achievement of the revolutionaries was the dismantling of whole societies, and their reconstruction as national prisons, and slave labor camps. Supported by progressives everywhere, Communists bankrupted whole continents while killing more than 100 million people \u2013 in peacetime \u2013 in order to realize their radical schemes. Their atrocities and failures continued until the day they saw their progressive future collapse under its own weight. This failure was entirely predictable because as every similar attempt to \u201cre-imagine society\u201d and change it by force has shown, it is simply beyond the power of human beings to create a \u201cjust\u201d world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago, a series of tragic events that I have described in my autobiography, \u201cRadical Son,\u201d stopped me in my tracks, and caused me to re-evaluate what I had believed until then. These second thoughts turned me against the cause to which I had been devoted since my youth, and which I now saw as a threat to everything human beings hold dear. Most of my generation of radicals, however, chose to continue on their destructive course. Over the next decades I watched the radical movement I was born into infiltrate and then take control of the Democratic Party and the nation\u2019s cultural institutions, until one of its own, Barack Obama, became President of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the moment I joined the conservative Right forty years ago, I was impressed \u2013 and also alarmed \u2013 by the disparity in political rhetoric used by the two sides fighting this fateful conflict. My radical comrades and I always viewed these battles as episodes in a war conducted by other means \u2013 even as our opponents did not. Our rhetoric proclaimed our goals to be \u201cpeace,\u201d \u201cequality\u201d and \u201csocial justice.\u201d But this was always a deception. We used terms that demonized our opponents as \u201cracists,\u201d and \u201coppressors\u201d because we believed our goals could only be achieved by vanquishing our opponents and destroying America\u2019s constitutional order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution valorized political compromise and was built on the defense of individual rights \u2013 most prominently the right to own property.\u00a0 America\u2019s founders regarded property ownership as the basis of individual freedom. As radicals, we regarded property as the root cause of the evils that oppressed us. Consequently, the principles we operated under were not the same as those we gave lip service to in order to win public support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky explained our attitude in a famous pamphlet called \u201cTheir Morals and Ours.\u201d \u201cTheir\u201d morals, he denigrated as bourgeois morals. They were morals based on class values that served the oppressors. One can hear the same sophistry today in the Left\u2019s attacks on meritocracy and standards as \u201cracist,\u201d and in their demands for equal outcomes regardless of whether they are earned or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While \u201ctheir morals\u201d served a ruling class, \u201cour morals\u201d served the people, and therefore social justice. Because we believed these propositions, \u201cour morals\u201d were by default Machiavellian: The end justifies the means.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trotsky\u2019s pamphlet was, in fact, a desperate attempt to avoid admitting that there was anything amoral or immoral in this cynical outlook. He did so by denying the existence of moral principles, claiming instead that all morality was self-interested and designed to serve a class interest. \u201cWhoever does not care to return to Moses, Christ or Mohammed,\u201d i.e., to accept universal moral standards, Trotsky argued,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crisis currently facing our nation is a crisis of faith \u2013 faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in the rule of law, and faith in the principle of equality before the law. 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