http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2012/11/should-this-rabbi-finally-be-fired-678.html
Thanks for posting this!
> “Romney lost because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. Ronald Reagan himself could not win an election in today’s America.”
> “There is no permanent empire. .....The most powerful empires in history all crumbled – from the Greeks and the Romans to the British and the Soviets.”
> “The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline.”
I thought exactly the same thing the morning after the election.....and it literally make me sick. I don’t think there is a way back anymore.
Great essay, absolutely true
I wanted a conservative to be our nominee, but in 20/20 hindsight I can't think of one who would have done as well as Romney; all the ones I would have found as acceptable, who might have been the candidate (Palin, Newt, Perry, Santorum, you name them) would have been demonized and dispatched far more easily than Romney.
Added to the point he makes about the change in our bedrock assumptions of free enterprise, hard work etc, we also had the 15% leftist swing by media bias, then the conservative purist circular firing squad destroying every candidate, next they pouted and stayed home rather than vote out the Marxist usurper.
He totally nailed it.
While the Rabbi’s premise is undoubtedly true, there may be another reason Romney did not receive enough votes...technological tampering.
If one considers how easy it has been for outsiders to hack into NASA, further consider how much easier it would have been for a tiny number of Democrat county IT folks to create routines to alter the vote counts arriving at the states headquarters. After all, was it Ohio that 57 precincts which voted 100% for Obama? 57 precincts in which not a single person questioned his direction. I understand another 100 or so had 99% percent Obama votes.
My statistics may be slightly inaccurate (apologies), but the point remains. If left wing nuts altered the outcome, then erased the evidence, it would be impossible to trace without a complete re-vote on paper...and that could never happen. We may have seen a bloodless internet coup.
A keeper
http://matzav.com/rabbi-steven-pruzansky-taking-heat-from-mispallelim-for-criticizing-obama
“This election should be a wake-up call to Jews,” he says. “There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile…. We have about a decade, perhaps 15 years, to leave with dignity and without stress.”
http://baruchsbreeze.blogspot.com/2012/12/kabbalist-calls-for-jews-to-return-home.html
...Rabbi Eliyahu Leon Levi, a 73-year-old sage of Turkish Jewish descent who continues a tradition of Kabbalah from his grandfather and father, issued a passionate cry for the Jews of the United States to purchase homes in Israel and begin planning their move. He said that just like in Iran before the Shah was ousted, the Jews were prospering financially. But then suddenly everything changed, and many couldn’t leave with their wealth.
“A similar scenario will occur in the USA,” he warned. “Jews must leave and take their money with them. The day will come when they won’t be able to leave with their wealth,” he said...
A good case could be made that just not enough American feel the pain. Welfare is now noble and mainstream, and benefits abound. Although we do have food and fuel inflation, it is much less than during the Jimmy Carter era. Although income taxes are going up, they are still much lower for most Americans; the top marginal rate was aroun 70% during Carter and the income tax was paid by most Americans including the lower-middle classes.
We have to have much more PAIN for the average low information voter to wake up. The talk of 16T debts, unfunded entitlements over 100T, tillion dollar plus deficits, ratio of tax revenue to deficit or interest payments are just abstract concepts. The stupid people live in the concrete world, the world of 8 year olds.
Thanks ...Was reading about this righteous rabbi yesterday
BTT Everyone should read this. Excellent!
Large numbers of Americans know where this is heading.
That’s why they are stocking up on weapons.