A little background: I am a proud leftist...
How sad that a Jew would side with the anti-Israel, anti-semitic left, and brag about it.
A self-hater.
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I wonder how much Veronica knows about Israel--where the majority positions of Jewish citizens, in polls, fall far to the left of the majority positions of Americans, and where many on the religious right literally believe the State of Israel doesn't have a right to exist. And, not to put too fine a point on it, isn't it presumptuous to assume I'm a Jew?
I know plenty about Israel. I've been there, and I have very close friends who were born in Israel, one who served in the Knesset. There are very few "on the religious right" who don't believe Israel have a right to exist. I know the Israelis voted Arik Sharon into office...:)
And, not to put too fine a point on it, isn't it presumptuous to assume I'm a Jew?
Perhaps. So, what are you? A leftist Christian named Perlstein???
"A little background: I am a proud leftist... "
What's to proud about?
I mean, Edison invented the light bulb. Reagan won the Cold War. American GIs liberated Europe and the Far East,
and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq. Ray Kroc built up McDonald's and Bill Gates created Microsoft. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web.
And I'm a father.
stuff to be proud of.
Meanwhile, Communism killed 100 million in the 20th century,
and American Welfare State liberalism saddled us with a host of societal ills from higher crime to cycles of poverty. Socialism has failed as an economic system time and time again. Free enterprise is better. Now the Left, having been disproven in economic realms, tries to debase the culture as a backdoor way to power. The Left is a pimple on the heinie of global civilization, contributing nothing but bad, old, disproven ideas. So what is there to be proud of?
BTW, a sanity question:
Do you agree that Alger Hiss was a spy?
Do you agree that the Rosenbergs committed spying and treason?
Do you agree that it was a good idea to put them in ol' sparky, as their spying helped Stalin build the nuclear bombs that he used to threaten us?
No, it's not. DennisW assumed that, from your surname. Are you, or aren't you?