{"id":3224,"date":"2020-04-02T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/anthony-flood-reviews-david-horowitz-dark-agenda-the-war-to-destroy-christian-america\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:52:23","slug":"anthony-flood-reviews-david-horowitz-dark-agenda-the-war-to-destroy-christian-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/anthony-flood-reviews-david-horowitz-dark-agenda-the-war-to-destroy-christian-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Flood Reviews David Horowitz, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cultural Marxism is but the latest form of the cultural cancer now metastasizing throughout the body politic. (Marxism-Leninism was only the deadliest form, not the first, but even today old-fashioned Communism does not lack adherents.) That the Democratic Party is now this malignancy\u2019s host is the grim, but well-documented, conclusion of Horowitz\u2019s long literary career.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Dark Agenda<\/em>\u2019s last chapter, Horowitz puts forward the metaphor of civil war to define what might be in front of us. It\u2019s a possible outcome of the divisions that beset us and which we\u2019re all supposed to want to \u201cheal.\u201d One prosecutes a war, however, not to heal one\u2019s enemies, but rather to incapacitate them.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Americans only the Age of Lincoln offers the closest comparison to our parlous state. But shall Christians and their Jewish allies (agnostic and observant alike) prepare for military conflict and await\u2014or initiate\u2014our Fort Sumter? Is it not quixotic to put all our eggs in the electoral consensus-building basket? Are we restricted to chronicling our enemies\u2019 crimes, as Horowitz has masterfully done in dozens of popular and scholarly tomes? Urgency calls forth a response, but if Horowitz has an idea of how Americans might defeat the Left\u2019s dark agenda, he doesn\u2019t share it here. No suggested plan of action follows the note of urgency he sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the third paragraph, Flood touches upon a point that troubles me as well. We have reams of incisive conservative commentary on what the Left has wrought but precious little by way of concrete proposals for ameliorative action by individuals<\/em>. In  fairness to Horowitz, however, it needs noting that in the concluding chapters of Big Agenda<\/em> (Humanix 2017), he lists various things the Republican party and President Trump can do. So he does outline a plan of action, and he is appropriately combative:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The movement galvanized by Trump can stop the progressive juggernaut and change the American future, but only if it emulates the strategy of the campaign: Be on the offense; take no prisoners; stay on the attack<\/em>. To stop the Democrats and their societal transformation, Republicans must adhere to a strategy that begins with a punch in the mouth. That punch must pack an emotional wallop large enough to throw them off balance and neutralize their assaults. It must be framed as a moral indictment that stigmatizes them in the way their attacks stigmatize Republicans. It must expose them for their hypocrisy. It must hold them accountable for the divisions they sow and the suffering they cause. (Big Agenda<\/em>, Humanix, 2017, p. 142)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Still and all, I would like to see a list of what individuals<\/em> can do beyond voting and writing letters and blog posts.  Does Tony Flood have any suggestions?  I suppose I myself should put up or shut up while well aware of the dangers of saying anything that might incite violence among the unhinged. (But violence is being done every day by leftists to the unborn and to our Constitutional rights and sacred American values). So here are three suggestions, just to keep this post short. I invite Tony to e-mail me with any thoughts he may have.<\/span><\/p>\n