“I really do like Ben Stein. His writing is usually clear, and his points are usually ones with which I agree...but”
There’s something the matter with Stein. He’s been acting and thinking strangely. I think he has a brain tumor or his body has been snatched.
Stein has joined the Buffet chorus in regard to taxing the rich and income redistribution. This has become so popular that it is likely impossible to avoid, no matter who is president from now until the day it no longer matters.
I think Ben is like many thoughtful and traditionally politically moderate Jews today: They used to vote for Democrats (as it is a Jewish urban tradition, you know) but have voted for Republicans occasionally (or in Stein’s case, like he said, he worked for politically moderate Nixon) but now with the Left’s increasing anti-Semitism focused on Israel, and the Obamessiah, the Democrats are making them very nervous.
They PERCEIVE people they traditionally thought are bigots on the Right and in their gut feel they can’t go there, and yet the rising hostility on the Left makes them know for sure they cannot be there...so they don’t know where to go.
Clearly the lessons of the Holocaust are being quickly forgotten, especially on the world stage, and that truly is a frightening thing—for everyone.