Why I am Not Alt Right
A reader with a wiser muse than mine has summed up hours of tedious argumentation with a quip, which I here repeat with relief:
- The Alt-Right says: We must fight identity politics with identity politics.
- I say: No, we must fight faith with faith.
I should add that I am not singling out the Alt-Right for this criticism. The mainstream Right makes the same error using different terms.
The Right apparently believe the fight with the Left is a political struggle, that is, a conflict of lobbyist groups edging for position within the context of an overall framework of laws and customs. It is not. The Left is a religious cult whose aim is to dismantle and destroy those laws and customs.
In both cases, the Cntrl-Left is bringing a gun. A Mainstream Right is bringing a polite knife and the Alt-Right is bringing a rude one, but neither of them see what the fight is really about.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
