Re: Stop. Punching. Right.

useapen <[email protected]> wrote in
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> The United States, Great Britain, France, and other Western allies
> aligned with the most prolific mass murderer in history, Joseph
> Stalin, to defeat Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II. There
> are valid points of disagreement with that choice, but most historians
> consider it a good one because, right or wrong, at the time they
> considered Nazism and the other Axis powers a greater existential
> threat to the world than communism and the Soviet Union.
> 
> Were they correct? Let’s revisit that later, but for now, you just
> need to understand that the Allies happily sided with one monster in
> order to defeat another one, and the world writ large was OK with it.


    "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"


> 
> Fast forward to today, and we face a greater existential threat than
> any form of fascism ever was or ever will be: leftism. That’s a bold 
> contention, I know, but I believe it’s an accurate one. Leftism, at
> its root, continually makes war on the God-ordained social order by
> employing various tactics like feminism, gender ideology, class
> warfare, egalitarianism, and many more to rip apart the traditional
> nuclear family, the building block of all cohesive, safe societies. In
> doing so, it destroys the social fabric that made Western civilization
> the greatest mankind has ever built.
> 
> It’s also easily transferable across cultures and societies. Once
> leftism gets its blue and pink dyed tentacles in, things begin to
> disintegrate fast. Economic progress stagnates, inflation soars,
> infrastructure crumbles, and people’s lives progressively get worse as
> the powers-that-be obsess over woke BS. Anarcho-tyranny rules the day
> as emboldened criminals prosper while law-abiding citizens are
> punished for attempting to protect themselves and their property.
> Freedoms once taken for granted, like speech and self-defense, are
> lost, never to return. 
> 
> The end result of this path is, of course, full-on socialism and, 
> eventually, the ideology responsible for the most human suffering in
> all of history - communism. And then the real killing starts, as we’ve
> seen countless times over the past century and beyond. So yeah,
> leftism is a threat greater than anything humans have ever faced, and
> it should absolutely be opposed at every turn by anyone who values
> preserving some form of free society for their children and
> grandchildren. 
> 
> Thus, using the same logic the Allies used in World War II, any enemy
> of leftism should be, at least tangentially, an ‘ally’ of ours. And
> just like Great Britain wouldn’t have sent a sortie of planes past
> Germany to bomb the Soviet Union, as evil as they were at the time, we
> shouldn’t ‘bomb’ our allies. In other words, don’t punch right.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is a tough concept for many on our side to
> understand. James Lindsay, for example, has an entire gatekeeping
> grift going whereby he labels people he disagrees with, particularly
> on foreign policy, as “woke right.” This line of thinking has people
> like Tucker Carlson, for example, lumped right in there with actual
> neo-Nazis, and people like Matt Walsh are considered something akin to
> Nazi collaborators simply for refusing to condemn them. (If you missed
> this entire brouhaha on X over the past year or so, just know it’s
> been a whole thing.) 
> 
> What I’m arguing for here is as big a tent as humanly possible. Sure, 
> we’ll have plenty of differences on plenty of key things, but if your
> goal is to defeat the left, you generally will have a friend in me.
> And the people who seek to divide the right by calling people who take
> controversial positions they don’t like ‘woke’ are doing more harm
> than good. Sure, let’s debate these issues, but let’s do it with grace
> and humility and the recognition that, at the end of the day, we’re on
> the same side.
> 
> I know what you’re thinking. Are there people we shouldn’t ally with
> or even talk to? What about those actual neo-Nazis or KKK members (if
> they really exist and aren’t just cosplaying Feds)? Well, the first
> thing to realize here is that in many cases, these ARE plants meant to
> make the right look bad. But no, not all. Sometimes, genuine people
> who mean well get deceived. Sometimes the left calls so many good
> things ‘fascist’ that good people just assume they might as well BE an
> actual fascist. 
> 
> Even in these cases, you can associate with or refuse to associate
> with whoever you like without actually punching right. You can express
> your disagreement with certain tactics or beliefs without condemning
> the people who hold them. If someone is an actual antisemite, for
> example, it is far better to patiently address their concerns, as
> Jesus would have done, instead of condemning and writing them off, as
> the Pharisees would have done. Maybe their heart is in the right place
> and they just need some guidance. If so, taking Jesus’s approach might
> just turn them into a far more effective soldier for our side than
> they ever would have been otherwise.
> 
> Circling back to that question about whether the Allies were right to 
> align with the Soviet Union during World War II, I would argue they 
> probably weren’t, that allowing the Nazis and the Communists to duke
> it out in the East would have severely weakened and neutered both to
> the degree that an Iron Curtain over Europe imposed by the fascists or
> the commies would have never been possible. But who really knows,
> right? The great irony is that the communists, once among our closest
> allies, were always the greatest existential threat.
> 
> Draw the line where you want, but I believe you should draw it as
> loosely as possible and be as charitable as possible to well-meaning
> people who have some bad ideas but just want to fight the left. Why?
> It’s not just the Christian thing to do, it’s also the best strategy.
> Because the battle against the left, now more than ever, is a battle
> of good vs evil, of sanity versus insanity, of order versus chaos, and
> we’re going to need all the help we can get to have any shot at
> winning it. 
> 
> When that fight is finally won, the hand-wringers, the gatekeepers,
> and the ‘woke-right’ accusers can at least do their thing without
> causing actual harm to the cause they profess.
> 
> https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2025/10/27/stop-punching
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