Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

Progressivism (P) Vs. Conservatism (C) When you understand a problem, you are halfway towards a solution! As we have learned, there are two sides of the on-going, half-century old ‘culture war:’ The left-leaning secular progressives (sometimes called ‘liberals’), versus the right-leaning traditional values conservative (also known as ‘social conservatives’). The secular progressives dominate our political parties, mainstream media, academia, big business, some parts of the judiciary, and the entertainment industry. Many mainstream people and some cultural leaders subscribe, at least in part, to the traditional values side. This handy guide will help distinguish between progressives (P) and conservatives (C). 1. Worldview P: Concerned with economic material side of man; C: Concerned with the entire person, including moral & spiritual. 2. Identity P: Identity Politics; C: Character (Martin Luther King Jr., in his epic 1963 speech, I Have A...

No sooner had the votes been counted and the winner announced than all hell broke loose. The date was November 8, 2016, and Donald Trump won an upset victory for the Presidency of the United States over front-runner Hillary Clinton. Violent protests broke out in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere; Trump supporters were viciously attacked; calls for ‘impeachment’ and ‘resistance’ were heard across the country, and ‘sanctuary cities’ pledged defiance against the new administration’s immigration policies. Stephen Scalise, House Republican Whip, was shot and nearly killed by a disgruntled Bernie Sander’s supporter. What’s going on? The best explanation is that we are experiencing an intensification of what is called the great cultural civil war, the most strident and divisive social conflict since the American civil war of the 1860s. Donald Trump’s election did not cause the conflict - it was more like poking a stick into an already agitated hornet’s nest - but it accentuated a tre...