Posted on 11/25/2023 7:46:59 PM PST by Rummyfan
I have been reminded a lot recently of the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. The narrator is a butler who was loyal to his lord. The butler idolized his employer. But as the novel unfolds, the lord he so fondly and faithfully served turns out to have been a foolish Nazi sympathizer in the years leading up to WWII. Imagine spending decades of your life serving someone you admire, and then having to face up to the reality that the man was a knave.
I can think of so many Jewish friends who in recent years loyally sympathized with progressive causes. And now these causes seem, among other things, to be riddled with anti-semitic leanings. I think that it will take many years for erstwhile progressive Jews to come to terms with the extent to which 21st-century Progressive causes are fraudulent.
By fraudulent, I mean that they do not help the people that they purport to help. BLM does not help black people. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion does not help achieve any of those goals. The champions of the Palestinian cause do not help Palestinians. The climate alarmists probably do not help the climate. The various gender ideologues probably do not help people who are struggling with the psychological problems that accompany their gender identity issues.
Recently, Tablet published a symposium called What Now? It was an opportunity for Jews to offer opinions that they probably would not have articulated prior to the October 7 Hamas pogrom. Titles of the essays include:
- End DEI - Replace American Communal Jewish Leadership - Get a Gun - Deport Violent Radicals
What has shocked Jews much more than the atrocities of Hamas are the atrocities committed by Progressives. It turns out that Progressives support a Palestinian cause that seeks not peace and dignity for all but to drive Jews out of the Middle East completely. Progressives say that the “context” justifies rape, murder and kidnapping of innocent people. Under the doctrine of intersectionality, Progressives manage to link support for Islamic theocrats to LGBTQ rights.
The Overton Window has clearly moved for many American Jews. The Ivy League is now disgraced. Imagine if on college campuses there were students marching around in Ku Klux Klan hoods shouting racist slogans. And imagine they were doing this right after the death of George Floyd. That is what the pro-Hamas demonstrations feel like to Jewish students.
The same Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices that supposedly are there to make minorities feel comfortable on campus are actively promoting Jew-hatred. Going forward, Jews are not going to regard DEI as benevolent.
The Left has been a complete hypocrisy from the beginning, going way back. For some of us, that was always obvious. Given recent events, it is blindingly obvious. But ... will people wake up and see? Or will they toll over, go back to sleep, and dream pleasant dreams of a socialist utopia? I think that is what will happen. Some people want to rule over others and some people just want to be taken care of — the ideas of socialism are perfect for both groups.
Wealthy Jews are pulling their gifts from the progressive colleges. The Ivy League schools have deep pockets and can endure a dip, but they are not infinite.
I keep coming back to the question: What did they think was going to happen?
You did not have to be a genius to foresee any of this. You just had to be self-aware and somewhat pragmatic. The fact that so many “smart” people are surprised by this, just goes to show how naive and/or delusional they were.
The Ivy League schools have deep pockets and can endure a dip, but they are not infinite.
Most of them that are shocked right now will forget just as quickly as they have forgotten other historical unpleasantness.
But some will have learned and the lesson will stick.
Welcome aboard. Buy a gun and go to the range. Because it is only going to get worse.
Liberty and freedom are hard -- difficult concepts for most people, and even more difficult to accomplish and maintain.
The great American experiment in self-government was (and it saddens me to have to use the past tense) dependent on having enough citizens for whom liberty and freedom were paramount, so that those who crave power and those who only want welfare don't rule the day.
We as a nation have, in the last few decades, lost sight of what the Founders intended, and we as a society have decided that we don't want liberty, we don't want freedom, we want Free Stuff, and the government of greedy power-mad bass turds are more than happy to tell us anything to stay in power.
My heart breaks to say it, but the experiment has failed. Whether it can be recovered is unlikely. More likely we will pass through a period of awfulness that I in my 70's will not see the end of, nor will my child.
Well, on the upside, we had a pretty good run, all things considered.
The Democrats have dropped their mask and are getting back to their KKK kill-the-Jews roots.
Excellent post
One can hope
Agreed.
I haven't seen him since .. 🤓
I would amend it to say that the ideals of socialism are the perfect siren song for both groups. What they always end up with however is absolute power for the former and serfdom for the latter. Which is fine for the former. It takes a few years for the dopes in the latter to catch on to their raw deal...
the Left only survives where they can control the narrative. In the absence of that control, natural human logic does not accommodate its nonsense
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