The trouble is, it's not just Leftists employing Alinsky Rule #4. I would bet those people Pandora quoted are "conservatives" but have been stewing in the modern "salvation through self-annihilation" perversion of Christian morality. Their comments betray a mindset that is bizarrely fatalistic, which is odd especially since Christianity espouses the notion of Free Will in the acceptance of salvation.
I mean, are they willing to defend anything about themselves whatsoever? And isn't it rich to make comments like "I do suspect, though, that on Judgment Day, I will not be asked what I did to preserve Western culture" and "I don’t have an existential need to fight for Europe, or America, or the West, or the White Race, or any of that" while they live comfortable and safe lives due to the fruits of that very Western civilization? The same one they see no importance in protecting?