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In The Age Of Lies, Truth Is Extreme
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…embrace extremism or watch civilization finally unravel from the comfortable sidelines of moderate respectability.
Today’s so-called moderates enable chaos, while extremists uphold values rooted in tradition…
The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision:
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate.
If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this wear that scarlet letter with pride.
Sobran was one of those extremists. At one time, he was an influential columnist and a prominent voice on the American right, but by the mid-1980s, he started to have second thoughts about U.S. policy in the Middle East. For possessing such pluck, he was summarily banished from the so-called “conservative movement” by his mentor and publisher at National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr.
Today’s so-called moderates enable chaos, while extremists uphold values rooted in tradition…
The late columnist, Joe Sobran, diagnosed America’s political malaise with scalpel-like precision:
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal.
If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative.
If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate.
If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.
By this clinical standard, the forgotten American qualifies as a dangerous extremist—and it is high time people like this wear that scarlet letter with pride.
Sobran was one of those extremists. At one time, he was an influential columnist and a prominent voice on the American right, but by the mid-1980s, he started to have second thoughts about U.S. policy in the Middle East. For possessing such pluck, he was summarily banished from the so-called “conservative movement” by his mentor and publisher at National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/age-lies-truth-extreme
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