I hear you.
Many years ago Limbaugh, IIRC, played a clip of an unbelieving San Francisco councilwoman expressing her dismay that a witness would suggest that homosexuals engage in sodomy … which made me wonder at the time how stupid could she possibly be.
… unless, of course, she were a deciever … something that didn’t occur to me at the time.
The thing about slippery slopes, or rather being dragged along by the culture with whatever it seems to be doing at the moment, is that people inside of process usually cannot see what is happening because their leash is to the popular culture. To see what is happening you need an anchor that can resist the pull of the popular culture.
Such anchors can be very very good – as when the Holy Spirit grounds a person – or they can be very very bad – get to that in a moment. And of course somewhere in between.
When someone has such a anchor the culture can all too easily be led away from them, they can become effectively unassimilated.
Meanwhile those pulled most strongly along with the random currents of the culture have tended to clump together into a sort of The Prisoner style meta Village where everyone is deathly afraid of being labeled unmutual by their peers, giving rise to the myth of individualism among those who are the most effectively ardent conformists ever seen.
Each group rightfully sees the other as more and more alien to itself; however, to those unaware how they’ve been pulled along they still think that they are the middle, the centrists. That’s why my frequent jab that there’s nothing remaining of the old extreme Left that’s extreme to the Left anymore falls on deaf ears.
They, who have changed dramatically in some cases, are sure they haven’t changed … or if you corner them on it intellectually they will assert that they are still the middle because the culture itself has shifted. Naturally, that they judge themselves by each other is a big part of why they had no anchor to begin with.
As for we who’ve not changed, well, we are now the far right.
It’s ironic that the Left has no end of rage to express against those who’ve not drifted aimlessly with them and the culture, who have unassimilated from them just as they’ve unassimilated from American values, and yet they are often the very ones most blind to the dangers of groups like Muslims who by in large won’t assimilate to their way of thinking either.
And it is with Muslims that we arrive at an example of having a bad anchor.
Should we marvel that those who most see the danger of Islam are those with at least sea anchors to resist the storm and waves instead of the leashes of the Left?
And Muslims who appear to be calling the dance for their part don’t seem blind to it. That’s why they team up with the very people least able to understand things like taqiyya in the post 9/11 world.