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To: Jmouse007
All the Jews have to do is go onto "democratic underground" and look at the plethora of anti-Semitic anti-Israel spew posts and the overwhelming support the democrats there have for the PLO and the terrorists over Israel, it is frightening!

You are right. Jews now have the hard choice between remaining with the increasingly scary Demo-Socialists, or joining with the Republicans representing Jacksonian America.

William Mead described Jacksonian America in a classic article in The National Interest. Jews have been outside Jacksonian America, much of which is antithetical to them. However, over time, Jacksonian America and Jewish Americans have been moving towards each other, and now the distance doesn’t seem so great. Jacksonians are not Anti-Semitic, and a place is reserved for American Jews at the Jacksonian table. There the Jews will enjoy the absolute security they have never had in history nor elsewhere on the planet. The Democrats, in which they’ve placed their lot, have become socialists, and harbor anti-Semites. They are increasingly capable of anything. Jews will realize that just as Israel’s security depends on Jacksonian America, likewise will their personal security. They will leave the Democrats to become Republicans.

Relevant excerpts from The Jacksonian Tradition :

Urban, immigrant America may have softened some of the rough edges of Jacksonian America, but the descendants of the great wave of European immigration sound more like Andrew Jackson from decade to decade. Rugged frontier individualism has proven to be contagious; each successive generation has been more Jacksonian than its predecessor. The social and economic solidarity rooted in European peasant communities has been overmastered by the individualism of the frontier. The descendants of European working-class Marxists now quote Adam Smith; Joe Six-pack thinks of the welfare state as an expensive burden, not part of the natural moral order. Intellectuals have made this transition as thoroughly as anyone else. The children and grandchildren of trade unionists and Trotskyites now talk about the importance of liberal society and free markets; in the intellectual pilgrimage of Irving Kristol, what is usually a multigenerational process has been compressed into a single, brilliant career….

Jacksonian society draws an important distinction between those who belong to the folk community and those who do not. Within that community, among those bound by the code and capable of discharging their responsibilities under it, Jacksonians are united in a social compact. Outside that compact is chaos and darkness….

The absolute and even brutal distinction drawn between the members of the community and outsiders has had massive implications in American life. Throughout most of American history the Jacksonian community was one from which many Americans were automatically and absolutely excluded: Indians, Mexicans, Asians, African Americans, obvious sexual deviants and recent immigrants of non-Protestant heritage have all felt the sting…

Although cultures change slowly and many individuals lag behind, the bulk of American Jacksonian opinion has increasingly moved to recognize the right of code-honoring members of minority groups to receive the rights and protections due to members of the folk community. This new and, one hopes, growing feeling of respect and tolerance emphatically does not extend to those, minorities or not, who are not seen as code-honoring Americans.

The Jacksonian Tradition

114 posted on 03/29/2004 9:26:30 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch
Good post. ......and thanks for the link.
116 posted on 03/29/2004 9:54:00 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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