Now many of you may have already categorized me in a group of psychos alongside D'Souza, but hear me out, just like I heard him out. D'Souza makes a lot of sense; his conclusion does not.
At first glance, I dismissed D'Souza as a raving extremist lunatic, but after reading The Enemy at Home, I can't help but notice that many of my beliefs are actually harmonious with his. And if you call someone narrow-minded without actually reading his work, congratulations, you're a hypocrite. You see, part of what D'Souza is fighting for is what our first president, George Washington, was fighting for when warned the country in his final public address, "A house divided cannot stand". What he meant by this was that America should not function as a bipartisan-style government. Now, while D'Souza by no means embraces Blue America, he does scrutinize them for spreading anti-patriotic ideals. Interestingly enough, isn't he doing the same thing by calling them out? Really, there's no other way. Sometimes an accusation against the cause is in order. Today I'd like to talk about another side of D'Souza- the details of his work as opposed to his difficult-to-swallow conclusion that Democrats are the sole cause of anti-American feelings in the middle east. First, let's affirm his ideas on the importance of unity and the underlying motive of moderation. Secondly, we can further observe his work and reveal a few points of hypocrisy.

Unity. D'Souza vouches that the cause for American-hatred starts at home as when "the cultural left has routinely affirmed the most vicious prejudices about American foreign policy"(D'Souza, 2). Personally, a part of me has always disliked Left-wing extremists. Believe me, I'm going to kill a whale just because you want me to save one. Okay, maybe not that far- I do actually love Nature a lot, but after hearing people complain over and over, you do tend to get irritated. Things are only as big of a deal as you make them. If you want to save the whales, more power to you. Talk to a congressman, ask me for my signature, but don't ask me to pledge to donate $500 to your organization every year until I die, because if it's going to take you that long and that much money to get control over your cause, you must be doing a lousy job. Either that, or you're never satisfied. Disguised as causes you feel "passionately" about, you're just complainers. The latest trend in complaining has been to redirect forces and un-backed feelings towards the United States of America. Many extremists don't believe in Patriotism, proudly deciding to "fuck the government" for all their evils. This infuriates me. I encourage you silly little kids with your graffiti to live

Fahrenheit 451 depicts a society brainwashed and manipulated by the government.
In my second point, we validate D'Souza's idea that the non-conservative sector of America has created a "land of the great Satan"(D'souza, 122) in the eyes of many conservative Muslim societies through practices such as premarital sex, abortion, and gayness, amongst others. He asserts that Muslims dislike the American image due to liberals. This brings up a very good question- if Muslims hate them, why do so many Muslims vote for the Democratic party? Here, it is important to note that D'Souza specifically mentions the fact that "the term "cultural left" does not refer to the Democratic Party"(D'Souza, 1) in his introduction- however the Democratic party does reflect the Democratic ideas and lifestyle. Thus, the Democratic party's success is our best statistical measure of the Muslim reaction. Until we dig deeper- it's true that culturally, traditional Muslim beliefs line up much better with conservative beliefs than Democratic, but it's about acceptance as well. Most of my father's friends are very conservative individuals- however his ballot is always Democratic. Just as Democrats alienate conservative Muslims through there actions, Republicans are equally guilty for condemning them with their words. If Republicans were to be as welcoming to the minority as Democrats were, they would win every election by a landslide. Thus, both parties are essentially guilty, and D'Souza blaming this problem entirely on the Left is quite hypocritical.
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