By Peter Fernandez

Less than 18 months ago, the perverse and vexatious political protests championing narcotic-fueled Islamist terrorists unveiled one of the dying West’s “existential sicknesses.” With 1200 innocent civilians, primarily Israeli civilians, massacred, one million Americans, and an untold number of Europeans celebrated the most heinous crime against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

“By lining up with Israel’s enemies, either through active support or by undermining the Jewish state’s attempt to defend itself against a genocidal enemy, “ stated British journalist Melanie Phillips in her 2025 book The Builder’s Stone, “the West’s political and cultural classes put wind in the sails of those out to destroy both the West and civilization itself. What this starkly illuminated was that Western elites had lost not only their conscience but also their minds.” 

This is but one glaring symptom of the disintegration and decay of our Democratic world. In the howling mad Were-West, the majority of mass media and public education systems also underwrite such Marxist-inspired cults as DEI, Queer Theory, BLM, the 1619 Project, globalism, and transgenderism, all in the name of progress, tolerance, and compassion. But what if you disagree with cultural suicide through alluring but inimical experiments on human beings? Resist them, and you are designated a racist, an Islamophobe, a transphobe, or a far-right fascist.

“Establishment liberals are attempting to silence dissent,” continues Phillips, “which they demonize as ‘right-wing’ or even ‘far-right’-in flagrant disregard of liberal principles of free speech and due process.” According to Biden-era liberalism, it is also racist to believe in the ideal of the Western nation-state. Progressive liberalism preaches global citizenship and the abandonment of nations and their silly flags. This is but “volkencuckoosheim,” a German term meaning “cloud- cuckoo-place,” for Marxist political theories best served to aspiring alt-left radicals digesting mythomaniacal school texts inside gassy collegiate “safe spaces.”

Phillips, the author of the 2006 best-selling Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror 

State Within, also stated that progressive modernism has judged traditional Judeo-Christian civilization and found it wanting: “As a result, a demoralized intellectual class embraced secular ideologies such as moral and cultural relativism, multi-culturalism and transnationalism that were infused with a revolutionary zeal to destroy the core values of the West and liberate the individual from the biblical morality upon which rested Western civilization.” 

The alt-left believes in “a wholesale rejection of rationality and truth itself,” as they view the antiquated and xenophobic US Constitution as one of the main reasons for “250-plus-years of American fascism.” Regarding such radical philosophies, Phillips also states, “Owing their genesis to the Marxist doctrine that all human relationships consist of a power struggle, these ideologies set group against group in a struggle for cultural supremacy and an unending spiral of ever-more extreme positions.” All of which seemed to come to hoary and hideous hydra head(s) during the seditious Biden Administration’s premeditated and purposeful sabotage of America.

Education is of little defense against “the loss of reason and the abuse of power” since teachers do not have to tell their 10-year-old student’s parents that he/she wants to be she/he. “It is the educated classes who are most prone to the fantasies of utopian idealism,” continues Phillips, “and abstract ideas that treat reality and real people as deplorable obstacles to those ideological illusions and that must, therefore, be stamped out and suppressed.”

When enlightened man experimented with overthrowing God and moral order during The French Revolution, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam, billions were murdered. Leftist idealists in our highest citadels of government and education are researching and drafting the next secular crusade against common sense, faith, and family.

The fallacious demonstrations against Israel were held in London while the pogrom was still going on. “The Israelis not only had not gone to war in Gaza,” writes Phillips, “they were desperately trying to prevent even more Israelis being murdered in southern Israel…And the point was that it was a demonstration by Muslims, and they were ecstatic over the slaughter of Jews.”

Through the weaponization of the Palestinian cause, this conflict has become another “unassailable” liberal cause. “The Palestinian attempt at the genocide of the Jews was labeled ‘resistance,” claims Phillips, “while Israel’s resistance to being annihilated was labeled ‘genocide.’”  

The majority of pro-Palestine political-based beliefs are primarily biased opinions and/or lies. Israel is a “settler-colonialist” state, Palestinian Arabs are the Indigenous and rightful inhabitants, the Israelis are in illegal occupation of the West Bank, etc.  “Yet every one of them has accrued the unchallengeable authority of holy writ,” pens Phillips, “because decades of Palestinian-Arab propaganda have found fertile soil in the self-hating catechism of the Western liberal elites.”

So it is again with global warming, globalism, transgenderism, BLM, Queer Theory, and DEI. Dare question these prevalent advocacies, and you are labeled as, in ancient Rome, the French Revolution, and Stalin’s USSR,“an enemy of the people.” Those enemies were promptly executed, but you and I are to be discredited by being bullied, shunned, shouted down, or censored. So far.

It is as if liberalism has become a secular religion. “Ironically, given its hostility to the Bible,” accounts Phillips, “it resembles medieval Christianity in promoting dogmatic beliefs that are deemed unchallengeable and regarding all who dissent as heretics to be destroyed.

“And they failed to realize that universalist, secular ideologies such as ‘human rights’ have similar characteristics to certain fanatical religious movements, with an unchallengeable dogma, a priesthood to enforce them (human rights lawyers and the media), and tribunals that function as an inquisition against the unfaithful.” See the ICC (International Criminal Court), the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Belgium NGO Hind Rajab Foundation.

The author is a children’s book author and Vermont resident.