When I say "antithetical" I mean truly POLAR OPPOSITES. a) Woke ideology: gender fluidity, LGBTQ+ affirmation, secularism. b) Islamist extremism: fixed binaries, compulsory modesty, theocracy. They are quite literally the FURTHEST each side could get from each other...

I could go on and on... a) Woke = speech codes to protect feelings. b) Islamist extremism = blasphemy laws with prison a) Woke: “all religions oppress,” b) Islamist extremism: religious supremacy in everything ...so why the strange bedfellows?

Then it dawned on me that two have literally nothing in common... other than a common enemy: The enemy: Western Civilization I can think of no other explanation than that both sides will tolerate each other's inherent worldview contradictions to gain power and destroy the West.

Why do both sides “hate the West”? I believe the short answer is: the West’s core values. Free speech, freedom of religion, equality under the law, free market choice, etc. All of these are a wall against any movement that wants total moral control... ...which BOTH sides do

In America, no one gets a monopoly on truth or power. We have elections. We have free speech. For the Leftists who want a cultural revolution...or Islamists who want sharia rule...that’s an existential crisis. The West must be destroyed for the movement to survive.

They have different scriptures, but essentially the same structure: Both sides treat disagreement as a sin... both have speech codes, taboos, purity tests, and "prophets". Both believe that ends-justify-means in this alliance. But...the alliance is temporary.

I find the irony so rich. Between the two, the Islamists will win.. and the VERY FIRST people outlawed will be the very same liberal activists who defended them. Woke will not win because they have no children... but if they did, they’ll ban Islamists’ speech. Oh the irony.

One side wants drag queen story hour for kids... the other side wants the de*th penalty for it. They cannot coexist. They can only band together long enough to weaken the West’s foundations and destroy it together.

...and my concern is the we are letting them Trump won the popular vote. There is a silent majority. That silent majority assumed the norms and institutions would always hold. But they absolutely won’t. When normal people check out, the zealots check in...

Silence is asymmetric. The Leftists and the radical Islamists treat your politeness as PERMISSION TO KEEP GOING. To push harder. The silent majority doesn't want to offend... so the quiet voids sounds a lot like "a consensus" and they rewrite the rules accordingly.

It's why so many people, I think, come up to me and say "I agree with all of this... but I cannot say a thing." They whisper it. They know they will be punished. Self-censorship has seemed to metastasize. People are not, and will not, tell the truth in public. A free society

@matt_vanswol Google "the Red/Green Alliance"

@matt_vanswol Communist ideology. They both have a common foe, I.e the US and capitalism. These people belong in a mental institution. The more we allow this type of behavior and thought process the worse it will get until the only solution is violence. History has shown this is the only

@matt_vanswol That’s very true, What you see is the left/Islamist oppose freedom in every form. They are the definition of anti-Christ

@matt_vanswol The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Leftists have crawled on the back of the islamic crocodile.

@matt_vanswol Truth and philosophy? That’s like a fence post in the ground — you can walk around it from every angle, kick it, lean on it, and it still stands there solid. Different angles just give you new ways to admire the same sturdy pole holding up the pasture. But ideology? Lord have

@matt_vanswol The enemy of my enemy is my ally. Until the common enemy is defeated.

@matt_vanswol I met once with a well known feminist exile from Iran. She explained how they came to be aligned to the Ayatollah Khomeini and what happened. 1. Their mutual enemy was the Shah so the Communists, radical students, feminists, and everyone who was against the Shah sided with

@matt_vanswol I think part of it is that white liberals want to be the “savior of the oppressed”. They think Muslims are oppressed in the US and need their help to oppose the big bad old white conservative men.

@matt_vanswol There's something about Israel evaporating their families, taking their land, their livelihoods, their abilities to grow their own food that somehow pisses them off. They also don't seem to enjoy us overthrowing their leaders and replacing them with puppets loyal to our interests

@matt_vanswol Both are against the US constitution which is morally superior to their cult ideologies where it allows all people to live and let live peacefully.

@matt_vanswol Their mutual enemy is simply Jesus and Christianity. And they will do anything to stop / fight it, even to the point of destroying themselves.

@matt_vanswol your best post yet Matt!!!! Congrats

@matt_vanswol Lefties love being presented with minority. It makes them feel like it's the 1960s and they are on the stage of history, etc. This is why they support the trans over women, too.

@matt_vanswol These are both under demonic control

@matt_vanswol It boils down to one thing and one thing only, Marxism. Everything leads back to this.

@matt_vanswol This is brilliant. The attack is not just on the West but on Christianity, itself, that is the undergirding of Western culture.

@matt_vanswol I was recently in Greece. Athens has more graffiti than ANY American city. As I pondered the dichotomy of the exquisite structures, and antiquities juxtaposed against the angry messages spray painted on every surface.. "F* Israel" et cetera, it occurred to me Western civilization

@matt_vanswol @KarlaCu17417557 Watch the news, social media posts & scripted tv storylines. Everyone is being conditioned to fight one another. Most people are weak & want to be part of their chosen tribe. Generally, leftists are drawn to any cause where there are "victims" because many are overly sensitive.

@matt_vanswol Leftists are totalitarian because you can't control all outcomes without controlling all actions. Hence they love dogmatic control. And Islamists are totalitarian because they simply love dogmatic control. They skip the faux political moralizing & go straight to the crux.

@matt_vanswol So many young leftists have an almost desperate need for affiliation and a sense of purpose. Parents and extended family are supposed to provide those to their children. When they don't, the door is open for bad actors.

@matt_vanswol It's to completely destroy the West & Capitalism. It's simple

@matt_vanswol Nailed it, @matt_vanswol. The urge to be enslaved is always accompanied by the urge to enslave everyone. It's the primary tool of Satan.

@matt_vanswol Even King Charles, head of the Church of England, doesn’t get this. It’s very sad.

@matt_vanswol Never made sense to me either.

@matt_vanswol The western leftwing has a history of locking arms with Islamism....solely b/c their only common ground is revolution. Once they share in toppling the status-quo, the Islamists get rid of their western leftwing partners just like they did in the Iranian revolution.