The other day the host mentioned an Abe Greenwald piece in Commentary called “The Woke Jihad.” It is a masterwork, and every single word should be read and then read again. But there is one section that ties in well with what I wrote yesterday so I want to examine it in detail.

The second section of the piece begins:

The first thing to understand about any left-wing protest movement is that its nominal cause is irrelevant. Black Lives Matter isn’t about saving black lives. Trans activism isn’t about protecting trans children. And intersectionality isn’t about the suffering of the diverse disaffected. Never were, never will be. Underneath their particular brands, social-justice movements are assorted fronts in a radical war against the good. And so it is for the “pro-Palestinian” encampments.

Would a group trying to save black lives have seized on a statistically tiny number of police killings as justification to rid black neighborhoods of police? That’s what Black Lives Matter did. And by the time the cops were hobbled, and violent crime spiked precisely where police were most needed, the movement’s leaders were using corporate donations to buy safe suburban palaces. BLM was an attack on law enforcement, because law enforcement maintains the good working order of the United States. Undermine that and you’re left with chaos, which is the objective.

and ends:

No, the encampments aren’t pro-Palestinian. They’re the latest expression of the social-justice left’s impulse to destroy the virtuous and raise up the wicked.

What is worthy of note here is Greenwald’s contention that this is a purposeful destruction of morality. Greenwald’s contention is that actual jihadi’s and the Left have formed an alliance, and that the Left are in for a rude shock once America has been upended as the jihadi’s will turn on the Left with a vengeance. I think that is absolutely correct taken as a whole, but the Left and the jihad differ in more than sexual mores.

The jihadi’s want chaos as a prelude to being the ones to restore order. And the prior “hippie” movements in American culture were rooted in anarchism, but the current batch are of a different stripe – they simply see oppression and nothing but oppression. They indeed blame authority and wish to tear it down to build anew, but the anarchists of old never wanted to build anything new, they wanted to live in the chaos. Chaos is not the objective for either partner in this alliance – what comes after the chaos is. More importantly, neither party in this ugly alliance wishes the destruction of virtue, rather they seek their own version of virtue, one radically different than out current understanding.

The jihadi morality is born of a devotion to a different religion. But the Left’s alternate morality is born of something very different, it is born of our presumption that morality was somehow a given – that it did not need to be fostered and nurtured in our youth, that somehow they would simply get it right. And so, rather than share our morality, they have developed their own, one that has lead them terribly and horribly astray.

The jihadis are indeed wicked, but our Left is simply neglected – neglected by those of us that should have known better. My post yesterday was an acknowledgement that slippery slope arguments are real and dangerous. We slide down the sloped without intention, but out of neglect. Some moral standards are indeed a bit arbitrary, but the point is not always the standard, it is instead the effort to defend the standard, for that indicates a purpose and effort. When we let it slip, the neglect involved sends a signal. So, as I pointed out yesterday, while the slope may not slide where we thought it would, the slope is undeniable, and the bottom is bad.

There is a bedrock understanding of Christianity often neglected. Paul put it best in his letter to the church in Rome – “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Without guidance, correction, standards and instruction we are going into bad and wrong places. Here we are.

The post The Attack appeared first on The Hugh Hewitt Show.