Douglas Murray Calls on silent majority to raise its voice against woke mob before it is too late

America’s “silent majority” must speak out to protect the nation’s foundation from the left, said Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, offering his analysis on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

(Article by Robert Kraychik republished from Breitbart.com)

Murray described a growing political divide — predicated on conflicting perceptions of America’s past — across America possibly leading to civil war.

“I think there is a fundamental divide which occurs in societies on occasion, and it should be eased rather than accentuated, and it’s been accentuated in the U.S. in recent years, and it’s for this one particularly concerning issue, which is that whatever discussions and debates people have over where America should be going, you do so — or you did so — from the premise that you agreed on the American past.”

“But now there are these two totally contrary [and] contradictory views of the American past,” continued Murray, remarking on left-wing historical revisionism. “One [side] sees the American past as what most of us think of it as being, the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and much more. Another group of people sees America as an irredeemable country, which not only isn’t exceptional but is exceptional only in its terribleness.”

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Murray addressed discordant understandings of American history and philosophical first principles between the left and right.

“Between these two views, it’s increasingly clear there isn’t very much ability to find common ground,” determined Murray, “because if you’ve never done anything good, then you most likely can’t in the future if you act on what you already have, and that’s why I say that if you can’t agree on the nature of your past, you don’t have a future.”

Murray continued, “There are people now who simply don’t seem to notice that the American Civil War happened, or that America spent many decades going over the issue of slavery. A new generation believes that didn’t happen.”

Left-wing activism is “a new religion that is being forced onto America,” Murray assessed. He described leftism as providing “purpose for existence”  in lieu of traditional institutions and norms being undermined.

Marlow and Murray described China as a geopolitical beneficiary of America’s self-inflicted decline. The warned that Western values will die if the left’s domestic pursuits are unstopped.

Murray remarked, “It is going to take an awful lot to stop it, and I think conservatives are remiss if they think … there will be some grand catastrophe at the end of which everybody will realize we were right all along.”

The French and Russian revolutions illustrate the some of depths of depravity to which revolutions can sink, Murray stated. “It’s perfectly possible, and history bears out the central truth that what happens next is not a grand awakening to some truth, but endless further circles down to hell.”