Posted on 04/13/2022 6:29:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Brave dissenters willing to defy an oppressive orthodoxy are our country’s best hope
lived for very many years in rural Vermont. I’d bought a long-abandoned, post-and-beam farmhouse on a third-class dirt road. The realtor was a German immigrant who’d come to Vermont with his wife and infant children just after the war. He suggested that I call a local builder, Bob, to inspect the house, which was superficially in dreadful shape, but the farm and basement were sound. Bob said he’d be glad to put it right, and he and his brother-in-law restored it to its 1805 perfection.
Bob’s family had lived through the war in Germany, and through the famine afterward, and through relocation in America, ignorant of the language. Bob taught himself carpentry and all the building trades, and became a much-respected member of the small town, where all of his contemporary men had fought against the Axis in World War II. His brother-in-law, Eric, had been in the Hitler Youth, and Bob was a glider commando in the Luftwaffe—the equivalent, today, of Delta Force, or the Navy Seals.
My family became friends with Bob, and his wife, Ilse, became a surrogate grandmother—or better, great-aunt—to my kids. His family was my first encounter with the German national character—hard working, honest, and uncomplaining.
Of course I was seldom unaware that the regime he had fought for was dedicated to the destruction of my people and my race (if Jews are a race … in any case, to my like). I asked Eric about the Hitler Youth, and he said that he’d missed one meeting, and was told by his group leader that, should he miss another, he’d be shot. And, Bob, and every other man of fighting age and ability, was conscripted, and what were they to do?
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Now, this feller can really write!
His conversation with Rogan the other day was lit, too.
“Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?”
Lol. Man’s got a point.
I would offer one correction. Mamet writes, “Floridians have displayed irrefutable common sense, responsibility, and probity, opposing “critical race theory” and the sexual indoctrination of adolescents. “
It is not the sexual indoctrination of adolescents that Floridians are now so angrily opposing. It is the sexual indoctrination of pre-school and primary grade children.
“His conversation with Rogan the other day was lit, too.”
Where do I go to watch Rogan episodes, that hopefully haven’t been banned?
Very good article.
It’s on Spotify. Episode #1801.
Great article. Now if people would just start listening and quit shouting conspiracy theory. It is no theory, but it is a conspiracy. Quit the rah rah for Ukraine, and start concerning yourself with our real problems, before it’s too late.
I was enjoying it until he got to the conclusion. The small victories in SF and Florida are merely speed bumps to the communists that run the country. There will be no true hope until they are discredited and run out, like the Soviets were in 1990. And even then we will need to fear the younger generation (read AOC) who will - like Putin - attempt to bring back the old system.
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4054905/posts
Regards,
It was essentially the same conversation he had with Peter Robinson (Hoover Institute) in 2014 - see YouTube.
It was essentially the same conversation he had with Ben Shapiro in 2019 - see YouTube.
No new thoughts, no new insights, no new formulations. Rather: The same old anecdotes with the same punchlines.
Am confused: I thought he was a great playwright?!
Well, he may be - but he's a one-note raconteur.
Regards,
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