hotair.com By Mark Judge
In the best political book of the last ten years, 2006’s The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, Polish scholar Ryszard Legutko lays out a sobering case that Western democracies often exist with a “demon” inside them. The demon is the idea that nothing should stand in the way of “progress” – not tradition, not faith, not family or community. This demon can ultimately collapse a culture.
This is where the United States has been for the past fifty years. The religion of “progress” has meant reverse discrimination, men who think they are women entering female spaces, and the attempted erasure of our culture and history.
Legutko’s argument is so striking because he is Polish, a country that has endured both Nazism and communism. When he came to the United States after communism collapsed, Legutko was shocked at how easily former communists adapted to American politics and culture. He concluded that there were similarities between the bureaucracies and the cultures of communism and of liberalism. As he writes:
If democrats are so fond of warning against all sorts of dangers that might undermine their political order, even if these are only suspected and felt rather than actually perceived (xenophobia, nationalism, intolerance, bigotry), one wonders why these same people completely ignore dangers that are easy to spot, namely, the increasing presence of developments similar to those that existed in the communist societies…
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