<We are never going to have a meeting of the minds with the Islamo-fascists. That's a zero-sum game where only one side wins>
It's not just the Jihadis who have a zero-sum mentality. That idea is endemic in the free world too, where about half the population sees wealth as something to be shared out, like some cake that was found under a tree. They don't understand all the effort that goes into making a cake, such as mining iron to make stainless steel for the kitchen sink, mining limestone to make concrete to build a dam to provide electricity to the stove, building thousands of factories to produce trucks, telephones, plastics, wiring, ceiling and floor tiles, baking powder, egg cartons, supermarket checkouts, fork lifts to load the supermarket trucks and the whole vast range of things needed to bake a cake. Not to mention what's needed to produce a person who will spend decades learning how to bake cakes, invent CDMA, a superconductor, or elastohydrodynamic turbine bearings.
That's the real clash going on. The battle between the individual, their freedom and private property and the kleptocratic state ruled by the mob, be it via a fascist, communist, priesthood, or democratic method. The Islamic Jihad mob are just another in an eons-long schedule of individual suppression and confiscation of their property by people higher up the dominance hierarchy [called government these days].
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