BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The moslems slaughtered a bunch of secularist leftish cartoonists and it's right-ish folks like myself who are outraged. No matter that the moslems slaughtered a bunch of lefties it seems the lefties are defending the moslems.
So who are the lefties for or against? Because it seems to me they're holding water for the people who most want to kill secular lefties.
Genuine ideologues will never abandon a theory, no matter how badly it's failed, and certainly no matter how many lives it costs. This has been the main feature of the dogmatist from the time of Marx/Engels/Lenin up through to today. The secular state is not dogma-free, even though it's not controlled by Christianity anymore. The orthodoxies, mostly from the mushy liberal/left, control the apparatuses and decision-making processes of the modern state. The good part is that the state isn't controlled by churchgoers who game the entire system for their own benefit, as happened in the old aristocracies that walked hand-in-hand with the Church to build and control an oppressive system. The bad part is that the liberal state has no idea how to deal with failures like what mass Muslim immigration has caused. The French secularists who banned burkas in public were on the right track but they didn't go far enough. Banning a piece of clothing is pointless when what is needed is the permanent expulsion, via deportation back to country of origin, of the orthodox fundamentalist and religious radical from the nation itself.
Another point that I've raised before is that not a single politician or political party in any of the Western nations after WW2 has ever had the courage to put an immigration policy to a direct referendum vote. That's because they all knew if they had to be honest about the amount of immigrants they wanted to let in, and especially to be honest about where they were going to let them come from, that their policy would have been overwhelmingly defeated by the voters. The left wingers encouraged it because of their insane ideas about all societies being equal, and willing to live together in Utopian harmony, and to build up a solid bloc of immigrant voters that would result in them never losing too much control of the state no matter how badly they might get beaten in occasional elections. The right wingers didn't do much of anything to reverse it because of their allegiance to capitalism and the financial sector, to use immigrant workers to undermine the old trade unions, and to use cheap labour to attack what used to be growing wages for the middle class.
There's an entire dung-heap full of responsibility for how much has gone so badly wrong. Most of it falls on the political left, but the right has to shoulder their share of the blame too for their part in it. The left did their damage out of a sense of completely fucked-up altruism and misplaced sympathy for a bunch of Third World barbarians. But the right-wing component of the problem was done out of sheer greed and a hate-filled need to suppress any of the lessers from the growing and thriving middle class who were getting too 'uppitty' to tolerate anymore. All I can say is that at no stage was the overall interest of the nation or the state, and mostly not of the people already living in our countries, ever put first. It was the theories that the ideologues developed and imposed that have their loyalty first and it'll probably always be that way too. If 3000 dead on September 11 wasn't enough to stop the system from tossing out green cards to Muslims then some random murders in a place like France, where the dogmatist rot at the heart of the state is even more deeply entrenched than it ever got to be in the United States, won't make anyone change course at all.