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Disappointing Leon ("transformation has occurred" for a "lifelong" Jewish Democrat)
American Thinker ^ | February 28, 2010 | Candice Paul

Posted on 02/28/2010 2:00:02 AM PST by Brugmansian

I am going to disappoint Leon Wieseltier. The famous liberal wrote this week, "A day does not go by when I do not do my humble part to prevent such a transformation [of American Jewry from liberals to conservatives] from coming to pass."

Well, Leon, you let one get by.

My transformation has occurred. It began with 9/11 and progressed along bumpily until the Obama, Pelosi, Reid express train came roaring down the track . . .

For years I had been looking around and asking, "What the heck has happened to the Democratic Party that I grew up in?" My Democratic Party loved America, believed in the Constitution, free market values, and independent thought and actions. When did it turn into the Party of "group think" and intolerance, of programmed talking points and mean spirited, vitriolic spokespersons such as Wanda Sykes and Janeane Garofalo? . . .

Now, all of this transformation has not followed a smooth and flowing path . . . How could I, a child of the sixties, a lifelong Democrat and a Jew be listening to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck?! I guess that part of the answer to that question could come from the fact that the current Democratic President of the United States came to his epiphany listening to Reverend Wright . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: epiphany; jewishvote; realignment
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To: truthguy
The Democratic Party has been fudged up since the purge of the Bourbons following the Cleveland administration. The Dem party my grandparents voted for was leftist and populist on economics.

The big change is that the "social issues" didn't become an issue until the 60s/70s, before which both parties had their socially liberal/socially conservative factions.

61 posted on 03/01/2010 9:09:55 AM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Brugmansian
You would think normal people would be repulsed by the Democrat party when they realize who it is they are voting with: Detroit, Camden, South Central LA, North Philadelphia... along with all the atheists, pinky-ringed union thugs, welfare grandmothers, abortion enthusiasts, condom-throwers, Boy Scout-hating lesbians, hand-wringing college professors, Hollywood drunks, and the rest of the parasites, losers, and goofballs who comprise the Democrat party "base".

Aside from that, voting for big government to confiscate yet more tax dollars... from your neighbors... is simply a rude and selfish thing to do. But that's just the way I was raised.

In addition to being the party of fisting and abortion, the Democrats are the party of "gun control". Why Jews, especially, would vote for the party that would leave them unarmed in the face of some possible future tyrant who would once again herd them into the boxcars leaves me thoroughly befuddled. It's behavior that is downright bizarre.

62 posted on 03/01/2010 9:13:13 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Texas Jack
FRom:

British Revisionism and the Fabian Society

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What is the Fabian Society?

The Fabian Society was created in 1884 after a suicide note left by Derby Fabian Henry Hutchinson also left 10,000 British pounds to the Fabians "for propaganda and other purposes." British Fabian socialism was created to promote international communism and free trade with a friendlier face. Unlike Marx's open and violent revolutionary agenda, the Fabian's agenda was to quietly infiltrate and re-direct established governments. The Fabians were instrumental in creating the Peace Movement, which is the perfect antithesis to violent expansionism. Fabians also helped establish the International Court at the Hague. The Fabians designed the first League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nations). Fabian influence on the creation of the U.N. is no secret, either. While many Marxist revolutions followed the prescription for violence (Russia, China, Cuba, etc.) others, like the U.S., were infiltrated under the Fabian model for "universal brotherhood and peace." Today the Fabian socialist model dominates in all global political movements.

Like the imperial goal, the ultimate goal of communism and socialism was to control world trade. The Fabians began infiltrating the U.S. as early as 1898. Emma Goldman represented herself as a Fabian socialist although she openly supported anarchist violence and her influence on McKinely's assassin in 1901 is part of known history. Goldman was deported to the USSR, but many other Fabians remained behind to do the work. By the time President Woodrow Wilson took the U.S. into WWI, the Fabians were in key positions. These key Fabians drafted the first League of Nations. As more and more Fabian agents secured high-level government positions, and other quiet organizations became high-level advisers (like the Council on Foreign Relations), the original history of the United States underwent a profound change. For over one hundred years the original U.S. system was slowly rebuilt to accomodate the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto. And, the less Americans knew about the changes, the better for all concerned.

The founder of American communitarianism, Dr. Amitai Etzioni, is a Fabian. His latest book, From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations outlines the Fabian's goals for creating a stronger global government. The "new" Fabian idea for a global justice system is to combine the strength of the U.S. Imperial Army with the principles of the International Court. The ultimate goal is to establish a valid U.N. military allowed to enforce international U.N. law against "insurgents."

The U.N. replaced the U.S. Bill of Rights with a Declaration of Human Rights after WWII. Human rights are not the same as individual liberty, just as the freemason phrase "liberty, equality, fraternity" is not the same as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Fabian and freemason propaganda both twist things to sound almost the same, but after a brief investigation anyone with eyes can see there are major differences. The power of propaganda is in teaching phony phrases and slogans and turning it into familiar repetitions. (Way too many Americans say, "I got my human rights and they can't never take that away.")

The localized Communitarian "approach" shifts the focus from legitimate constitutional governments to a new form of governance, called "community government." The Fabians plan to rule American neighborhoods based on the Soviet and Chinese models for totalitarian communities. In their skewed world view it is acceptable and okay to lie and sneak new fascist systems into formerly free countries, because ultimately it will create a lovely Utopian paradise on Mother Earth.

Their key phrases are "global security," "human rights," "hummanitarian," "social justice," and "peace." You will never hear a Fabian defend legitimate national law based in the U.S. Bill of Rights. They call individual liberty and freedom "old-fashioned" and "outdated." Fabian propagandists distort reality. Their goal is to confuse and manipulate free people into giving up their freedom for world peace and security. Fabians say the American principles for freedom must be balanced in order to "save the planet" and "stop global terrorism." (They never admit they're the terrorists.)

Fabianism is elite training in socialist propaganda. Fabian followers are called "agents for change." Fabian facilitators are installed in every government agency in the world, and they influence all mainstream media outlets. They are the reason Americans never hear about communitarianism or Local Agenda 21.

The propaganda campaign to convince Americans the United Nations' International Criminal Court is a valid authority has begun in earnest. For a good example of how Fabian propaganda is utilized by Hollywood, see the movie "The Interpreter" starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. This movie never tells us about the Fabian definition of "human rights." It never once mentions the laws and programs limiting private property rights already enforced on U.S. soil. Fabian rhetoric never discusses the real programs and laws. Fabians only speak of lofty, vague communist ideals like "peace" and "equality." Listen closely to the movie's closing comments about the ICC.

63 posted on 03/01/2010 9:42:38 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Brugmansian

I caught on on Sept 12th...in those awful days right after we were attacked, I saw George W. Bush for the true patriot he was and is and his detractors for the haters of America that they were. Then I heard my own liberal sister say “its all Israel’s fault”. She, who would have been wearing as yellow a star as any other of Jewish ancestry in Germany in the 30’s. I turned conservative and will never turn back. On another note, sadly, many who survived the Holocaust are seeing the same symptoms rising from the left again. I read how an 86 year old survivor in Sweden who spoke about the death camps for years to schoolchildren is no longer invited to speak—and in the past few years that she did speak, muslim schoolchildren turned their backs on her or called her a liar. So sad, that she would live to see that repudiation. Sadder still, that these muslim imps were allowed to behave that way with impunity and support by their socialist useful idiots.


64 posted on 03/01/2010 9:45:12 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
thanks, for the information / post.

65 posted on 03/01/2010 9:49:04 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voters: "Here's my DeathCARE Plan"...now....just die (quicky), please. :^)
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To: SkyPilot
1. JEws are leftist becasue of a gnostic reinterpretation of of Judiasm. (Essentually an atheistic immanentizing of the eschaton)
2. Grievence Politics. Grievance politics unites disparate minorities in unthinking opposition to the majority, even against rational self interest. The politics of grievance is an unthinking ersatz ethnic loyalty, wherein one defines oneself in opposition, rather than in being. It leads Jews to support political correctness, immigration of Muslims, and Third Worldism, even though these are all against their rational self interest as an Americans or as a Jews. It leads black leaders to support immigration, liberal social politics, and objectively failing education and social models.

Alienation and grievance politics leads immigrants to support many of the policies they fled from. (This isn't just a minority issue. Think how many liberal economic emigres overwhelm formerly conservative areas. They flee taxes but demand the social welfare state, spreading the disease.) The children of immigrant minorities are inherently alienated. (I know, I am one, despite being brought up among the NY elite.) They benefit from affirmative action and see government as their protector against the majority. Any failure of the state to create a perfect life for them is not the failure of the nanny state but the fault of conservatives and the majority. It takes generations to assimilate new immigrants. The Irish, Germans, Swedes, Italians, Poles and other ethnic whites voted for big government and against middle America for generations. When the left saw their hold on white ethnic ending in the 1960's, they opened the floodgates.

PS. Marx was Lutheran for his childhood and became an antisemite avant la lettre. Check out his "On the Jewish Question." All Marxists are definitional haters of Judaism and Jewishness, just confused ones.

66 posted on 03/01/2010 10:28:15 AM PST by rmlew (Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

Now I feel hope that soon change will come.


67 posted on 03/01/2010 11:15:32 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ( Two-state solution: A bad idea whose time has gone.)
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