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Radical Son, Then and Now

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Posted By: Mauigirl, 12/10/2020 2:03:59 AM

Of all the books I have written—and there have been many—Radical Son is the one that has touched the most people, and touched them the most deeply. I think the reason for this is that it describes a personal odyssey through the political labyrinths of our times. Its narrative addresses the psychological and religious dimensions of what it means to be a radical and to harbor utopian dreams of re-creating the world and making it just. Secular radicals have variously called these dreams of a heaven on earth, “socialism,” “communism,” or “social justice.” These fantasies are consolations for the flawed world in which we actually find ourselves, and cannot escape.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Mauigirl 12/10/2020 2:12:36 AM (No. 627605)
My error. Hinderaker only wrote the preface to what I posted in the Intro which Horowitz wrote. If you choose to click on the Original Article it will make sense. It's getting late.....
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Reply 2 - Posted by: kiwikit 12/10/2020 6:24:48 AM (No. 627655)
I could not agree more with the assessment of RADICAL SON. I read it soon after it was published and it certainly turned me into a political junkie and Horowitz admirer. He's written many wonderful books but none as moving. Those were the days before CSPAN's political correctness made it unwatchable: then it took calls based on geography rather than political party. At this turbulent political time, it's deserves to be republished. I plan to re-read it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Newtsche 12/10/2020 8:22:59 AM (No. 627747)
"Radical Son" changed my life. May God bless David Horowitz.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RU4us 12/10/2020 9:16:47 AM (No. 627828)
With due respect Dr. Charles Krauthammer, I always wished David Horowitz had been the more visible of that group that had epiphanies along the Red Road. Mr. Horowitz is harder to listen to, but patience is rewarded with enlightenment. Also, I guess the producers were a little afraid he would pull a Howard Beale and wreck their invites to the parties.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 12/10/2020 10:48:23 AM (No. 627949)
Most people toy with the ideas of communism, socialism and the vision of Utopia on Earth. It is those that are still in that mindset beyond the age of thirty that can officially be considered insane. Once you get through your college indoctrination, perhaps serve a few years in the military and are thrown out naked and afraid into the real world and learn how to separate ideology from reality, things become clear. If one is middle-aged and still caught in that drying patch of tree sap, it's time to call a good therapist.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 12/10/2020 11:00:53 AM (No. 627966)
I read Radical Son some time ago, and anyone who has not has absolutely no idea about how deeply embedded and carefully planned this leftist destruction and take over of the country is and how many decades they have been working towards it. These leftists are all perfectly comfortable with literally ANY lawbreaking in order to accomplish their religious duty to force leftist ideas on all of us. Killing inconvenient people is not a problem for huge numbers of them. Just ask Seth Rich. The example of Flores Forbes being a violent felon and a convicted murder, yet now being the Associate Vice President of Strategic Planning and Program Implementation at Columbia University is a good example of who is now running "the universities". Criminals, killers, extremist leftists....that's who. I sent this commentary to a white friend who has a half black daughter who is currently "attending" Columbia University, although with the current remote learning.....'attending' is a joke. I have warned him several times that Columbia is a leftist re-education camp/indoctrination center, but he is an intelligent old-school liberal, with a lot of conservative/libertarian overtones - which is why we have been friends for decades. We used to stay up until 2 am hashing out why I think most of his liberal ideas are crazy and he thinks some of my conservative ideas are crazy. We eventually came to respect each other, and mostly leave the politics alone these days. He's an honest, and pretty sane guy. I hope his daughter can be salvaged after Columbia, but I think that the odds are less than 50%. He thinks I am way over concerned and still imagines that Columbia is a fine place, with a few radicals around.
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