James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
When I was in Israel, there was a fair amount of talk about something called "the Conception." I asked how they say this in Hebrew, and they say, "the Conception." They say it in English.
The Conception is a misconception that has been a central security risk to Israel all along. It's a belief that by being generous, kind, helpful, etc., with people who openly want to kill them, that they'll win them over. It's the misconception that the "Palestinians" and Islamists are dangerous because they're poorer and don't have good opportunities, schools, jobs, etc. It's the error that there's something Jews and Israelis can do to have peaceful coexistence with people who want them dead for being Jews and for being on land they intrinsically believe is "occupied" and "stolen" (radical Muslims believe all land they have ever held is theirs forever and that any land lost is intolerably stolen).
The Left throughout the West operates upon the same "Conception," which is a misconception. That crime is caused by poverty. That criminals can be rehabilitated through money, opportunity, kindness, and generosity that they simply take advantage of. That we can import the worst of the world and simply have more great citizens by being nice to them. We, realists and conservatives, rightly mock the Conception in Western Leftists.
We also understand why the Conception is dangerous, as do many more (but not nearly all) Israelis after October 7. The change in demeanor and approach you see in the actions of Israel since October 7 is the result of the Conception shattering in murder, evil, hostage-taking, and blood (to keep it polite).
Of course, taqiyyah (Islamist Machiavellianism) encourages maintaining belief in the Conception. It is to their advantage, so it is not only acceptable but necessary to make these airs. Useful idiots fall for it pretty much every time, and the results we saw on October 7. Many among the slain and brutalized were devout believers in the Conception, living in hippie kibbutzim that got obliterated, often involving the betrayal of Islamist "friends" they had been helping. More taqiyyah.
The Left, both here and in Israel, still believe in the Conception, and they're wrong. Radical militants, whether Communist, Fascist, or Islamist (or any hybrid blend of these), cannot be collaborated with into a successful integration because their objective is conquest, destruction, and/or murder. The Conception is wrong. The Left is wrong. Dangerously wrong.
But there's another Conception running now, too, this one on and from the New Right. It believes the radicals on the New Right (or Woke Reich) are just chest-beating conservatives. That they're on our side for the most part but a little too radical or unseemly. That they can or must be in our tent to "win" and that they'll come back around to genuine conservative and realistic politics as we move forward together.
This is just another manifestation of the Conception, and it's just as deadly. The New Right is openly and proudly Machiavellian (doing taqiyyah). They're not just betraying us and our trust and need, they're taking advantage of us and our MAGA Conception to radicalize more and more of our youth and capture more and more of our voices in the trap they're laying for us, and their October 7 of MAGA is coming.
Israel failed with its belief in the Conception and in not taking the intelligence regarding Hamas seriously enough before October 7. New Yorkers are making the same mistake with Mamdani. The American MAGA movement is making the same mistake with the New Right.
We must see through the Conception. Radical militant groups and splinters are not our friends and cannot be tolerated. We have the intelligence. We must not fail to heed it.
