Saturday, September 2, 2017

Houston’s heroes should inspire us to unite against the disaster of growing extremism!

The New York Post ^ | September 1, 2017 | Ben Shapiro 

Because there are certain enemies we hold in common. We hold death in common; we’ll help all but our worst enemies escape the grave. We hold natural disasters in common as an enemy; we’ll react to them by helping out our neighbors.
And we hold civilizational threats in common; we’ll fight together against the Nazi scourge or the Soviet threat.
merica was built on the foundation of free speech, liberty in personal action and freedom from violence and governmental tyranny. Those principles are now under attack by groups like Antifa, far-left-leaning militants, which maintains that there is an existential threat that justifies wartime measures: the presence of the American system itself.
Antifa members believe America is steeped in racism, bigotry, economic injustice and police barbarity. And they believe that this gives them the right to carve away at the foundations that hold us together.
This makes them an existential threat, a cancer gnawing at the vitals of the nation. They aren’t the only ones, of course: Some violent members of the “alt-right,” for example, believe that non-white Americans are the existential threat and use the same logic as Antifa. But the true threat to America comes not from outside but from within. It’s far harder to unify against that threat if we’re unwilling to identify it.
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