>>So how DO we keep from going, gently or otherwise, into that bad night of easy moral equivalence? Which seems to be popping up all over these days.
We stop “agreeing to disagree”. When you get into an argument with a Progressive, they use a tactic to force you to admit that you could be partly wrong (with the implication that they will admit the same). But then they don’t. They take your admission of possibly being wrong or not fully informed, and they use that to say, “HAH! You know nothing!” and then they proceed to act as if their opinion is fact and your facts are in doubt.
So, we refuse to back down an inch in a argument. When they say, “Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree”, respond with, “Yeah...you do that pussy.”
Read Alinsky. Learn it. Use those same tactics and use them to more effect.
And when they get in your face, get in their face. When they push, push back. And when they move to strike, go nuclear!
But, of course, if this seems un-Christian, then we can choose to die as martyrs one day. If that is the right course, then let’s get on with that too. Eternity awaits the faithful.
I’m still looking for a soft copy of that book. I really don’t want to spend money on it.