After all the blood, clarity
The enemy of your enemy can become a temporary friend. But letting disheartened progressives shift conservatism farther to the left will only hasten America’s descent into the cultural abyss.
The principle of “no enemies to the left” aims at fostering solidarity and unity by discouraging public criticism or opposition within the left, even when ideological differences exist. It’s become a common trope. It emphasizes prioritizing shared goals and external adversaries over internal disputes, ensuring a united front against political right-wing opponents.
But the idea appears to be weakening, especially in the face of the cultural response to the October 7 terror attack in Israel.
In a recent article titled "The Day the Delusions Died,” Konstantin Kisin highlighted how some on the “center-left” have experienced a profound wake-up call when it comes to the threat wokeism and identity politics pose to Western society after witnessing protesters mobilizing against Israel while expressing solidarity with Hamas.
“A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives,” Kisin wrote. “What changed?”
The protests were not isolated incidents. They occurred in major cities across the Western world and, surprisingly to the moderate left, within elite American universities, which are considered bastions of liberalism. In one of the more well-known examples, 31 student groups at Harvard University signed a letter accusing Israel of being “entirely responsible” for the attacks last month.
In an instant, many white progressives, including those of Jewish descent, found themselves at the bottom of the intersectional food chain.
How could this have happened?
According to critical race theory, which has wholly captured academia and has been embraced by the adherents of woke ideology, Israeli Jews are “white colonizers” and promoters of Western culture. In other words, Israeli Jews and their allies are natural enemies of the left and subject to the woke doctrine of “decolonization.”
As such, terrorism, in the minds of woke activists, is considered legitimate political action in the pursuit of “social justice.”