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From Final Battle by David Horowitz:
"RADICAL utopians seeking to change the world invariably have three traits in common. These flow from the radical nature of their mission, which is to change the world.
First, radicals are in a hurry. Their task is large and the opportunities to achieve it scarce. America’s political culture is specifically designed to support incremental reforms, not abrupt breaks with the past. Ramming through transformational changes on the basis of razor thin majorities is exactly what the American system is designed to frustrate and thwart. But this is the very goal of radicals, and they are consequently pitted from the outset against the majority.
Second, because radicals are in a hurry, they are impatient with process and persuasion, which makes them generally tone deaf to the majority that opposes them. Radicals dismiss their opponents, because once their schemes are implemented—by whatever means necessary—they are confident that a majority will see just how liberating their policies are, and they will be grateful. Blinded by arrogance, they prefer government by mandate and diktat to the frustrating conversations that are the life blood of a democratic system.
Third, radicals generate energy for their movements by singling out a social subgroup, usually a racial or religious minority, to demonize as the enemy of these liberating schemes. In this way they remove opponents from the deliberative process and deny them a proverbial “seat at the table” where they can express their opposition."
"RADICAL utopians seeking to change the world invariably have three traits in common. These flow from the radical nature of their mission, which is to change the world.
First, radicals are in a hurry. Their task is large and the opportunities to achieve it scarce. America’s political culture is specifically designed to support incremental reforms, not abrupt breaks with the past. Ramming through transformational changes on the basis of razor thin majorities is exactly what the American system is designed to frustrate and thwart. But this is the very goal of radicals, and they are consequently pitted from the outset against the majority.
Second, because radicals are in a hurry, they are impatient with process and persuasion, which makes them generally tone deaf to the majority that opposes them. Radicals dismiss their opponents, because once their schemes are implemented—by whatever means necessary—they are confident that a majority will see just how liberating their policies are, and they will be grateful. Blinded by arrogance, they prefer government by mandate and diktat to the frustrating conversations that are the life blood of a democratic system.
Third, radicals generate energy for their movements by singling out a social subgroup, usually a racial or religious minority, to demonize as the enemy of these liberating schemes. In this way they remove opponents from the deliberative process and deny them a proverbial “seat at the table” where they can express their opposition."
