>>What is the definition of being Unamerican?� �
David Horowitz summed it up for me...
Here is the mentality that explains the oddities of the Kazan protest and the left�s defense of itself during the Cold War era. For the argument proposed by Hoberman is absurd to anyone not committed to the progressive faith. Isn�t the case that even Nazis think of themselves as wanting a better world? Don�t we all? What is missing from these progressive hearts, after all is said and done, is a proper love of country, and therefore a sense of the friends, neighbors, and countrymen they betrayed.
A proper love of country does not mean the abandonment of one�s principles or the surrender of one�s critical senses. It means valuing what you have been given, of what you have, and sharing the responsibility for nurturing and defending those gifts, even when you dissent. The Old Left, the Stalinists, the people whom Kazan named, betrayed their country and the real people who live in it, their friends, their neighbors, and ultimately, themselves. They may have betrayed it out of ignorance, or misplaced ideals, or because they were blinded by faith. But they did it, and they need to acknowledge that now by showing humility towards those, like Kazan, who did not.
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>>What is the definition of being Unamerican?� �
David Horowitz summed it up for me...
Here is the mentality that explains the oddities of the Kazan protest and the left�s defense of itself during the Cold War era. For the argument proposed by Hoberman is absurd to anyone not committed to the progressive faith. Isn�t the case that even Nazis think of themselves as wanting a better world? Don�t we all? What is missing from these progressive hearts, after all is said and done, is a proper love of country, and therefore a sense of the friends, neighbors, and countrymen they betrayed.
A proper love of country does not mean the abandonment of one�s principles or the surrender of one�s critical senses. It means valuing what you have been given, of what you have, and sharing the responsibility for nurturing and defending those gifts, even when you dissent. The Old Left, the Stalinists, the people whom Kazan named, betrayed their country and the real people who live in it, their friends, their neighbors, and ultimately, themselves. They may have betrayed it out of ignorance, or misplaced ideals, or because they were blinded by faith. But they did it, and they need to acknowledge that now by showing humility towards those, like Kazan, who did not.
David Horowitz summed it up for me...
Here is the mentality that explains the oddities of the Kazan protest and the left�s defense of itself during the Cold War era. For the argument proposed by Hoberman is absurd to anyone not committed to the progressive faith. Isn�t the case that even Nazis think of themselves as wanting a better world? Don�t we all? What is missing from these progressive hearts, after all is said and done, is a proper love of country, and therefore a sense of the friends, neighbors, and countrymen they betrayed.
A proper love of country does not mean the abandonment of one�s principles or the surrender of one�s critical senses. It means valuing what you have been given, of what you have, and sharing the responsibility for nurturing and defending those gifts, even when you dissent. The Old Left, the Stalinists, the people whom Kazan named, betrayed their country and the real people who live in it, their friends, their neighbors, and ultimately, themselves. They may have betrayed it out of ignorance, or misplaced ideals, or because they were blinded by faith. But they did it, and they need to acknowledge that now by showing humility towards those, like Kazan, who did not.
