Now Repeat After Me...We're Electing a President, Not a Messiah
So Barack Obama is tacking to starboard. That's steering to the right for you landlubbers. But as a politician who lives next to those inland seas we call the Great Lakes, he must have seen sailors do this hundreds of times. He's already tacked to the port or the left side. Now it's time to tack to the right or the starboard side. Paradoxically, that's how you sail in a "straight" line and end up arriving at your destination.
Let's remember that Barack Obama is a South Side Chicago politician. Veering to the right after starting out on the left is a time honored Windy City tradition.
Further up Chicago's lakefront there is Alderman Helen Shiller who represents the Uptown neighborhood. Uptown was once home to the Young Patriots, a group of impoverished Appalachian whites who were aligned with the Black Panther Party. Helen Shiller, a white woman, started out as a fire breathing socialist very much influenced by Panther ideology. Today she is a tame ally of Mayor Richard M. Daley. Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush who really was a Black Panther, is now an ordained minister and a shill for the big ATT telcom.
Governor Rod Blagojevich is from Chicago. He once sounded like the second coming of William Jennings Bryan, a reformer who would never allow the good citizens of Illinois to be crucified on a cross of corporate gold. Now he's mired in the same big bucks corruption that has traditionally made our state penal system a second home for our state's chief executives.
Even former Weatherbomber Bill Ayres is a respected professor at the University of Illinois and an ally of Mayor Richard M. Daley's corporate run "school reform" efforts.
It happens that way in this town. Big Money can whip up a Force 10 political gale pretty damned quick. If you don't want to sink faster than the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald, you make your accommodations to the powers that be.
In Barack Obama's case, his intended destination is the White House. He's already tacked to the populist left. With that completed, its time to tack to the right and show Corporate America that he understands their formidable power. Of course if Barack Obama were running for Messiah, he'd simply walk on water and skip all of this complicated port and starboard, left-right rigarmarole.
During the primaries, it was easy to spot the Obama supporter who saw him as the New Messiah. They had a thousand yard stare when they saw him on TV or at his many rallies. They drew attention to themselves by clapping long after everyone else had stopped. Their friends could be heard making cruel "guess whose been drinking the Kool-aid jokes." Their thousand yard stare disappeared when they encountered a Clinton supporter, replaced by a fierce looking feral intensity and an upper lip curled into a sneer.
These are the kind of people whom the editors of The Onion love. They are an easy target for all of our jaded cynicism, but don't dismiss them. They are the walking wounded from 8 years of intense political pain inflicted by George W. Bush and his minions. After that ordeal, who wouldn't want a Messiah to relieve their suffering and guide them to the New Eden?
But a Messiah is not what they or this country needs. There is no New Eden and Messiahs have a way of coming to a bad end. The Romans dealt with them by crucifixion. During the 1960's FBI director J. Edgar Hoover spent serious amounts of taxpayer's money trying prevent the emergence of a "Black Messiah". Many people suspect that the deaths of talented leaders like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King or Fred Hampton were the result of such efforts. The irony was that none of them had pretensions of being anybody's Messiah. They were smarter than that. They were leaders and organizers, not Messiahs.
One of our greatest labor leaders was the socialist Eugene Victor Debs. Debs had no illusions about Messiahs.
"If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out."
We're not sheep and we don't need a sheep dog to herd us to a non-existent New Eden, Promised Land or wherever. So if you think you really..really... need a Messiah, trust me you don't. Because if you lose your Messiah, you're lost without a plan, a map or a destination.
So if a Messiah is not the answer, what about a President? That's even more complicated. You see, despite our pretensions of being a Republic, we're really a Constitutional Monarchy. It's just that we elect our monarch every four years. We don't have a Coronation, we have an Inauguration. But it's really the same thing.
If our President were like the King of Sweden whose main job is handing out Nobel Prizes, we would be better off. Even if our President were like the Queen of England, an overpriced national decoration, we'd still be better off, just with a more depleted treasury. But no, our Presidency has become an Imperial Presidency. This is not what our Founders, especially George Washington, wanted for this nation.
The Imperial Presidency is an office straight out of Louis the XIV of France and the Divine Right of Kings. Our President even swears the Oath of Office on a Bible to illustrate that point. Louis XIV was notorious for his corrupted court of wealthy nobles and his endless wars. We now have the K Street Cabal of corporate lobbyists and endless wars in places most Americans couldn't find with GoogleMaps.
The Presidency is supposed to be a sacred trust of the American people, designed to to be the highest expression of our democratic values. Yeah and I have a rather famous bridge to sell you too. The Imperial Presidency is about keeping the peace among our corporate robber barons and insuring that we lowly peasants stay properly dazed and confused by sound bites, photo ops and gaudy political spectacles. Louis the XIV would gladly have traded the spectacular Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirrors and all, for the spectacle of live television.
Although technically only Congress has the power to declare war, nobody pays much attention to that, especially our Congress. The US Imperial Presidency is a loaded gun handed to a person who has spent a significant portion of their life cutting cynical deals and plotting to seize a power that the old kings, queens, emperors and empresses only had in fairy tales. Did I say a loaded gun? More accurately, a fully loaded nuclear arsenal.
No human being can be trusted with that kind of economic and military power...not even a highly educated world traveling former community organizer from Chicago like Barack Obama. But we're really up the creek on this one because while Barack Obama is still in the process of being corrupted by power, John McCain is already 99.44% pure corruption, like Ivory Soap only in reverse.
So vote for Barack Obama and then let's start dismantling the power of the Imperial Presidency. As a people we've been asleep in front of our wide screen TV's for too long. We've allowed the Imperial Presidency and the corporate courtiers that surround it to amass a power that even we the American people shouldn't have. It's a big planet out there and we have to share responsibility for it with the vast majority of people who aren't Americans.
Sorry Barack, I know you've wanted this job for a long time. As for your corporate "benefactors", you know too well who they are and what they are about. While you were out organizing on the streets of Chicago, they were busy shoveling money at City Hall to keep your Chicago neighbors under siege from poverty, unemployment, poor health, crime, and pollution. They weren't your friends then and they aren't your friends now.
So go ahead and keep the title of President, just like His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf keeps his title in the Kingdom of Sweden. But Barack, it's time to put the Imperial Presidency and its gang of corporate thieves in the museum next to the ermine robes and powdered wigs of yore. It's going to be big job, we really don't know how to do it yet and it's definitely going to take some time.
We could sure use your help.
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TRUTH HURTS
I SEE MY COMMENT WAS CENSORED IMMEDIATLY OH WELL THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER SITES TO SAY WHAT I SAID ON HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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MY MISTAKE
TOOK A LITTLE BIT TO POST BUT THANK YOU FOR POSTING MY COMMENT AND I APPOLOGIZE
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ELECTING A PRESIDENT?
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN -WE ARE ELECTING NO ONE- BUSH WAS PUT IN OFFICE BY SILENT COUP AND THE BILDERBERGERS HAVE ALL CANDIDATES BOUGHT AND PAID FOR-THE ONLY WAY YOUR GOING TO GET
AN HONEST ELECTION IS IF THIS COUNTRY LITERALLY CLEANS HOUSE
CLEAR DOWN TO CONGRESS BECAUSE THEY ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR
TOO AND AS FAR AS A MESSIAH DONT WORRY HE IS COMING BACK SOON
TO CLEAN HOUSE AND HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST!!!
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Wake up People !
Since the U.S. is a corporation, as stated in their own codes (USC), how can someone be a Citizen of a corporation? Surely it is an impossibility. People will say, no, the U.S. is a country...but that is the united States of America and that is NOT how it reads on any form, application or document. People need to understand just who they are and who they are supposedly "voting" for. It is the President of the U.S. corporation. [actual citing 28 USC 3002 (15) A]
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00003002----000-.htm...
So how can anyone vote for the U.S. President then - unless they somehow wish to classify themselves as associated with that corporation ?!
i.e. City of & County of Los Angeles, State of California -- all corporations (check their charters for proof) what makes one think the United States is not?
Anyone who thinks any of the U.S. Corporation Presidential candidates can provide anything different than the same old same old nonsense - guess again. If you find yourself saying, the familiar cliche -- "I am going to vote for the lesser of the two evils" --- ask yourself why am I participating in the charade parade.
Always follow the money. These candidates will say anything that is "feel good" - just political rhetoric, however their loyalty is NOT to the people, but rather the big money corporations to which they serve and are financed by.
The solution: Opt out instead. Say no to totally corrupt politics and don't participate. When people finally get this and start taking their power back, then there will be true change!
Who is REALLY running America? Have you ever asked yourself that question? www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud/html
And for those that tout Ron Paul - yes, he is close, but he still doesn't share all of the Truth. Why is that?
By the way, why is it in the Constitution, the words People and Posterity are capitalized?
A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) when it is capitalized, and usually applies to capitalization due to proper nouns or eponyms
PREAMBLE to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Now the question to ask, were you signatory to that declaration (Constitution) and most importantly, if you think that you are "covered" under being one of "We the People", - guess again, because when they capitalized it, the meaning of the word was changed to reflect a particular group of "people", and the Prosperity was for those future generations to theirs, not yours!
Wake up people!
Then look elsewhere for a Messiah...
When money, religion, and politics fail dramatically in the very near future, only truth, justice, and verifiable wisdom are going to save humanity. Politicians are about to become one of history's great lessons in folly.
When the full scope of human civilization is analyzed, it becomes abundantly clear that its pillars are money, religion, and politics. Of the three, money is by far the most important because politics and religion rely on it for existence. All three are great deceptions (strong lies) secretly managed by the Vatican and its secret society cohorts. This fact has been expertly hidden over the last two centuries. Money, religion and politics are Machiavellian deceptions whose common purpose is mass exploitation. Very few people understand that all three are tightly synchronized and interdependent logic traps. Consequently, to continue trying to win at such long-term and highly developed shell (and shill) games is absolute folly. Until we turn away from such obvious delusions, humanity’s great struggles and suffering will never end.
http://forgingnewparadigms.blogspot.com/2008/01/money-politics-religion-...
Here is Wisdom !!
Evil
We need to rexamine our role as people who allow Mafia and criminals to represent us the US. Of course they will sell dope and take bribes we give them the green light through ignorance. French revolution. How can we revolt from inside a concentration camp. Messiah-President HUH WE NEED HOGANS HEROS
evil
When given a choice between two evils, we still end up with evil!!! I agree that it is time to examine the 'Constitution and the American Experiment'. Take the best of it and start over. Who has the guts to start the conversation?
(NOT) Electing a Messiah
What America desperately needs and craves is an American version of the French Revolution. Including guillotines for decapitating captured government "leaders."
American government needs to be disbanded and re-invented. A government based on the sacred ideals of : A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE! BY THE PEOPLE! FOR THE PEOPLE!
Not like today's government dedicted to serving only the special interest groups and literally, "to hell with what the citizens and taxpayers need or want!"
Thanks for censoring my
Thanks for censoring my comment, asshole.
Your article, dumbass
I've got a better idea. How about this: people wake up to the fact that the federal government needs to be completely done away with. Why in the f*** did the colonists fight a five-year war to escape the clutches of the centralized British government, only to turn around a few years later and inflict one on themselves?
The federal government of this country is responsible for 98% of the misery in this country, and a deal of misery around the world. Does anybody really believe that this country couldn't survive without these treasonous, thieving crapweasels? "Oh, my God! Who's going to tax and regulate me to death? Who's going to throw my civil liberties in the shitter, and bankrupt me and the entire country? What will I do?"
Try thinking for yourself, that's what, and realize that you don't need ANY of these so-called "leaders."
Obama and McCain are puppets.
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov't Will and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
Yes... very well said
The "well said" comment was very well said. We definitely need to tear up the corrupted, and amended-to-death Constitution and start over again. Keep the original and the Bill of Rights and do away with many of the last century's ridiculous amendments.
Our current system of government is terminally corrupted and teetering on the brink of fascism. The checks and balances are gone. And signing statements are absolutely unconstitutional.
Bush simply peeled off the band-aid and exposed the festering, infected sore underneath.
The "anti-Semite" stuff is easily confused for anti-Zionism i believe. There is absolutely no reason that any foreign lobbyist group should hold ANY influence in our government the way AIPAC and JINSA do. And ANY dual-nationality citizen with allegiances to ANY OTHER country should NEVER be able to hold any public office the way that Zionists like Pearle, Feith, Zackheim, Chertoff, etc... did or do now. That's pure insanity. THEY are dictating OUR foreign policy.
Yes... very well said
The "well said" comment was very well said. We definitely need to tear up the corrupted, and amended-to-death Constitution and start over again. Keep the original and the Bill of Rights and do away with many of the last century's ridiculous amendments.
Our current system of government is terminally corrupted and teetering on the brink of fascism. The checks and balances are gone. And signing statements are absolutely unconstitutional.
Bush simply peeled off the band-aid and exposed the festering, infected sore underneath.
The "anti-Semite" stuff is easily confused for anti-Zionism i believe. There is absolutely no reason that any foreign lobbyist group should hold ANY influence in our government the way AIPAC and JINSA do. And ANY dual-nationality citizen with allegiances to ANY OTHER country should NEVER be able to hold any public office the way that Zionists like Pearle, Feith, Zackheim, Chertoff, etc... did or do now. That's pure insanity. THEY are dictating OUR foreign policy.
Unequal Standards
The Media and anybody is free to mock, criticize and insult Christians and Christian symbols but there are no anti-Christian hate laws in effect. The "antisemitic laws" were established to protect the "elite".
Moshiach...World Peace 2050
Moshiach is alive and well right now on Planet Earth doing his work. He first became aware of his true role and purpose about ten years ago. The chronology is vital. The process of revelation was a gradual and intensely private one. G-d is going to force world events to a point where his ascendancy and sovereignty is recognized and accepted by more and more people. (I am talking weeks and months, not years...) Interested readers should update their knowledge base by reading about Maimonides' Twelfth Article of Faith. G-d hates to be denied. Prophecy is immutable.
Imperial Presidency
Good article, well written with a tongue in check sarcasm and humor. The contents of the article are correct. I left the US three years ago and have never regretted it. I also enjoyed the many thoughtful and well written comments. Personally, the US is still the country I swore allegiance to and so it is still my country though I choose not to live there. I am retired so making a living isn't necessary but the way things are going it might become a necessity! And at age 68! As far of the comments are concerned most of them were spot on as well. While agreeing with most of them, I enjoyed them all. Nice to see people awake.
Barack Obama and the Presidency
I thought at first this was going to be a Barack-0-Bashing, but it wasn't. I agree with you, especially the last 3 paragraphs. I won't vote for McCain, that's for sure.
Those who fail to learn from history. . .
Interesting, isn't it, that Obama is using his studied eloquence to build a huge populist movement that bypasses many of the traditional structures, amassing power in ways never seen before? And that all that power ultimately resides in HIM?
Interesting, isn't it, that Mussolini also started as a populist-leftist leader with great charisma, who was going to right all the ills of society and make the trains run on time? Tacking to starboard was just a necessary tactic to achieve his noble agenda, right?
If something very sinister were coming our way, would we learn about it through our totally-controlled sources (including cable, along with much of the "alternative" media)?
Well said
You've put into words what I've been saying to my American friends for a long time - that the Constitution is a piece of (brilliant) 18-century political philosophy. However, the USA is probably the country with the most antiquated system of government in the world. Even we Brits have overhauled the way that our government works several times in the past 100 years. The French, of course, go from Republic to Empire to monarchy to Republic and round again.
It's time to tear up the US constitution and start again, keeping the parts that are good, and work, and replacing those parts that don't. A constitutional monarchy on the European model would solve the problem of flag worship, which has become the besetting sin of Americans (for a self-proclaimed Christian country, America certainly worships a lot of false gods - flags, USMC, a narrow form of bigoted nationalism, etc.). Heresy to ditch the constitution? No, just good political practice. The US constitution, despite what most Americans seem to believe in their hearts, is not divinely inspired.
Or, if that's too hard, split up the USA. Let Dixie secede, and Mississippi and Alabama become the Moldavia and Armenia of North America. Right now, the USA is too big, too aggressive, too greedy and too selfish for the rest of the world to live with. I'm talking about the country here, not the people. I have many American friends, who are free of these faults, but the nation itself in its current form is a neighbor that the rest of the world would be well rid of.
You're nuts!
You're nuts!
Vote For Ron Paul
You can still vote for Ron Paul. Write him in. The ONLY choice for people of conscience is Dr. Paul. It doesn't matter that he's suspended his campaign. He SUSPENDED the campaign he did NOT drop out. Write in Dennis Kucinich for VP while you're at it!
Benevolent Messiahs and Dictatorships
You grab what you can, when you can. It is the story of humanity. Prior to our current (guffaw!) civilization, 'thief' was an honorable trade. It was up to the momentary owner of anything to see to it remaining in his/her posession.
Barrak Obama has seized this moment... the only moment in history where he could have possibly had a chance of being more than a mediocre Senator. In fact, if it had not been for eight years of George Dubya Bush, there couldn't have been this moment for him to seize upon.
We like being led by politicals and gods. They remove from us our responsibility for ourselves. If it all goes to hell, we have the devil... or the president to blame.
Humanity has a small window here to unscrew themselves but... they'll likely have none of it. It's just far too easy and too comfortable to pick a poor representitive to explain our ignorance.
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Vote Ron Paul- "picking between the lesser of 2 evils" is futile
Well, surprise, surprise, my previous comment didn't show up. Mainstream Media at its best.
we should be listening to Ron Paul, not Hillary, Barack, Mccain
We should have gone with Ron Paul. He was going to stop the wars, and stop the NAU (North American Union). Isn't anyone suspicious of WIDE-OPEN BORDERS & the "War on Terra?" Why are illegal aliens allowed to continue to pour in?
Then, there's the CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) whose members include many politicians and media people. This would also include the candidates and if they're not involved, their spouses are. The CFR is pushing for this NAU....
Then Obama is with the Chicago school (whose principals are free trade aka Milton Friedman) and Obama's also crowing constantly, "Si, se puede." He wants to pardon all these illegal aliens as well as Hillary (remember NAFTA) and McCain (McCain who with Kennedy tried to cram Amnestia down our throats twice). And does anybody remember the 1986 Amnesty? Did it work? Were promises of enforcement ever made? Isn't the situation much worse now? And now, we even get the illegals and their supporters brazenly marching in the streets (completely ignored by ICE/Homeland Stupidity-Insecurity) proudly waving their flags declaring their great love to Mexico and telling us to go to hell, while simultaneously, they say they want to stay here.
They're all corrupt as far as I'm concerned and we had a chance with Ron Paul, but thanks to Ron Paul being blacklisted by Mainstream Media, not too many people knew he even existed, let alone run for presidency.
Hmm, wasn't the media also complicit in their aide of hoodwinking the people when it came to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?
And here we go again, thanks to Mainstream Media in keeping with their masters, the CFR, the elites, world bankers and greedy corporations, ...we get to (drum roll) "Pick the lesser of 2 evils again" or choose between "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum."
"Dismantling the power of the Imperial Presidency"...
Please understand that McCain and Obama are merely puppets on the center stage of a media circus event that occurs every four years, otherwise known as the presidential election process. Behind the stage curtain is an evil cabal of ruthless international bankers, well out of range of the cameras and bright lights. They are the puppet masters who pull the strings of our president, his cabinet, and most of our politicians on both sides of the aisle. The mainstream media provides the necessary cover to keep the truth about these criminals out of sight and out of mind.
If you want to dismantle the president's imperial power, you had better start with the vermin hiding in the dark, behind the curtain.
Just who are these puppet masters, who wreak havoc with our economy, our productivity, our lives, and the well being of our country?
(Hint - the traitor John McCain was their guest of "honor" at a fund raising luncheon, held last April in London, England, sponsored by the international banking elite... the Rothschilds)
Imperial Presidency
We have a dictatorship-pure and simple! If something isn't done and soon it will be one for life! Nancy Pelosi needs to get off her fat duff and help Dennis Kucinich out with his impeachment proceedings ASAP! Mr. Vincent Bugliosi(spelling is probably wrong but he is the fellow who prosecuted Charlie Manson and thinks Bush should be prosecuted for similar crimes) needs to go after all the major players in this administration ASAP! If McCain DOES become president I plan on getting out of the country as fast as I possibly can!
Quandry
In the progressive blogs today it is not uncommon to read what approaches hate-speech directed against Obama because of his tack to the right. I will have to confess some serious disappointment myself about his support for the FISA bill now before the Congress. My disappointment comes not so much from his tacking right (that I expected) but from this tacking away from the Constitution which guarantees a right to privacy unless there is a court order otherwise.
The prime responsibility of a President is to protect and defend the Constitution and this is my prime issue as well. The fact that Obama now favors a bill that provides a retroactive immunity for acts by the telecom companies certainly gives me pause.
However, I also have to say that I don't see an alternative. It seems clear that the Republican party and in particular John McCain have little respect for the Constitution or any other law for that matter. Moreover the FISA provision affects only civil liability, not criminal liability.
The presidential election is to elect a President, not about personal satisfaction. We are choosing from among men, not from angels and we certainly can expect flaws. The right vote is for the best candidate, not for the perfect one or for a protest candidate who has no chance of being elected.
You are dead on right. I am
You are dead on right. I am a cynical old man and don't have much time left to do my small part to rectify. I only wish I had come to the realization earlier. Bush is the Marie Antoinette of America. Let them eat yellow cake!
No, No, No, No, No, No, NO!!!!
We ARE electing the Messiah!
Obama will bring back the constitution!
Obama will bring back the rule of law!
Obama will see that the Bush administration is punished!
Obama will demand fair election reform!
Obama will take the government back from the corporations!
Obama will see that the government is we the people!
Obama will see that the US only does good things so the world loves us!
Obama will take back our jobs from China and make America strong!
Aaaand -- if he doesn't after all this expectation?
Then maybe finally we'll see Americans pouring into the streets to take _back_ their country. I say, "Go for it!"
[Of course that's not going to happen either. On a serious note, I take offense at so lightly saying in the article that we have an imperial presidency. Now? yes. But it would have made George Washington cry considering the efforts he took _not_ to imitate a monarch despite those who urged him to do so.]
Re:No, No, No, No, No, No, NO!!!!
Good point about how the Imperial Presidency was not what people
like George Washington wanted for this country. I made a couple of
edits that I hope at least partially address your concerns.
Thanks for your editorial help.
Messiah
As it is written in the Bible, so shall it pass. We are at the 6th seal, 6th Vial, 6th Trump. (666) The peoples will look for their father (satan) to save them from the world troubles, because the jews (kenites) led them astray from the true Christ. The end of this earth age is here.
Anti-Semitism is Alive and Sick in the USA
I thought about deleting the the anti-Semitic comments but decided to leave at least some of them up as examples of how anti-Semitism is still very much alive in this country.
Anti-Semitism predates the founding of the State of Israel and has nothing to do with criticism of either US-Israeli relations or Israeli
domestic and foreign policy.
In times of economy distress and uncertainty, there will always be people who will haul out discredited racial theories to divert us from
solving the problems at hand.
It's important to understand them and their ideas so we can minimize their influence and get on with the business of bringing economic and social justice to a nation that sorely needs improvement in those areas.
Anti-Semitism: It's not just against Jews anymore
While anti-Jewish sentiment has always been an undercurrent in white Christian societies, an equally virulent hatred of Muslims has also always existed in the West and is manifesting itself in all its inglorious colors especially since 9/11.
Having said that, I myself should no more be considered an anti-Semite for strongly disagreeing with Zionism, than I should be called anti-Muslim for hating the extremist bigots from that religion. Any way of thinking that elevates one group over another is racist, be that group Jews, Muslims, white people, Yamato Japanese, rich people...you get the idea, methinks.
Oh, all this "anti-semitism"
Oh, all this "anti-semitism" speech is just a way for Israelis and the Israeli government to get the world to feel sorry for it, despite all the U.N. Violations it has racked up. I'm sick of hearing "anti-semitic" every time someone says anything about Jews at all. "Semitic" is a LANGUAGE GROUP, not a nationality, and it just so happens that Arabic is a Semitic language as well as Hebrew. So, "anti-semite" is just bunkum.
Actually, there's not enough
Actually, there's not enough anti-semitism and knowledge of how jews rule and manipulate the west, and that's why we're dying. Jews and israel are the 800 pound gorilla in the living rooms nobody wants to address because it's a taboo imposed by our jewish press. A good place to start research on this question would be Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique". It lays out in detail jewish evolutionary survival strategy.
Anti-Semitism is Alive and Sick in the USA
I thought about deleting the anti-Semitic comments but decided to leave some of them up as examples of how anti-Semitism is still very much alive in this country.
Anti-Semitism predates the founding of the State of Israel and has nothing to do with honest criticism of either US-Israeli relations or Israeli domestic and foreign policy.
In times of economy distress and uncertainty, there will always be people who will haul out discredited racial theories to divert us from solving the problems at hand.
It's important to understand them and their ideas so we can minimize their influence and get on with the business of bringing economic and social justice to a nation that sorely needs improvement in those areas.
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