[firebrand]

I love Steyn the best, but I am getting a little tired of the demographic-catastrophe approach to the future. The true action is in a sphere other than the physical. When are we going to get serious about the war of ideas?

[fourmation599]

war of ideas?

Could you elaborate please?

[RKV]

The Commies have done their worst to harm us. We must reverse the "Gramscian damage" done to our society. Here's my list of to counter Gramsci's "virus."

Truth and beauty exist.

All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/Fascism/Islam are valid, because of the overwhelming evidence world history.

There are objective standards by which we may judge one culture to be better than another. Anyone who claims that such standards don't exist is an evil oppressor.

The poverty of the Third World is often the sad, but deserved result of the moral and intellectual backwardness of their cultures.

Crime is the fault of the criminal.

Poor criminals are entitled to a fair trial and just punishment. Resisting criminal predation is virtuous.

The poor are sometimes victims, and sometimes they are not.

Victims are victims, and criminals are criminals, not victims. Criminals are not virtuous just because something bad happened to them.

For a virtuous person, violence and war are sometimes justified, and even sometimes required.

It is always better to defend oneself. 'Oppressed’ people have no special virtues that others do not have as a matter of natural right.

When confronted with terror, the only moral course for a Westerner is to destroy our enemies root and branch. Terrorists are incapable of becoming tolerant, and will only lie to get you to let your guard down if you give them the opportunity.