Deplorable Yankee
Diamond Member
At this moment, when there is an awful struggle over the Hebrewsâ place in the world â so dire that youâre waiting for World War Three to vaporize everything youâve ever cared about â one observes the Jewish American scene with trepidation. Since I am a Jewish American, Iâm just going to flop this one on the table like so much meat to see what kind of animals it brings out of the woodwork to fight over it.
The Hamas war has exposed a deep current of animosity against Israel and against Jews generally world-wide, even here. This, you understand, is happening at a time of what we might call epic global political mental illness. A mass formation psychosis appears to grip many population groups, each in its own way, but often expressing itself as a longing for death, ranging from the economic suicide of Western Europe to the rise of Jihad to the desolate nihilism of American nose-ring youth.
Jewish Americans have played a leading role in American intellectual and political life through the 20th century and into this one. We Jews increasingly dominated the arenas of literature, academia, medicine, law, news media, and show biz. Business and government, too. In America, we mostly overcame (or seemed to) the deep, old-world superstitions against us, thanks to successful near-total cultural assimilation. I, for example, came from a Jewish family far more interested in baseball than Talmud, who put up a Christmas tree in the living room, and ate sweet-and-sour pork frequently. Perhaps this made us âbadâ Jews, but frankly, it was more important to be good Americans â that is, people who cared more about our country than our ancestral origins.
Indeed The jews have greatly contributed to western civilization...in every field ...good and bad
but I've been saying it forever ...once they shut down the assimilation machine we were eventually going to be done for....
And here we are ....letting in millions upon million who offer absolutely nothing ...that's just the cherry on top
The Hamas war has exposed a deep current of animosity against Israel and against Jews generally world-wide, even here. This, you understand, is happening at a time of what we might call epic global political mental illness. A mass formation psychosis appears to grip many population groups, each in its own way, but often expressing itself as a longing for death, ranging from the economic suicide of Western Europe to the rise of Jihad to the desolate nihilism of American nose-ring youth.
Jewish Americans have played a leading role in American intellectual and political life through the 20th century and into this one. We Jews increasingly dominated the arenas of literature, academia, medicine, law, news media, and show biz. Business and government, too. In America, we mostly overcame (or seemed to) the deep, old-world superstitions against us, thanks to successful near-total cultural assimilation. I, for example, came from a Jewish family far more interested in baseball than Talmud, who put up a Christmas tree in the living room, and ate sweet-and-sour pork frequently. Perhaps this made us âbadâ Jews, but frankly, it was more important to be good Americans â that is, people who cared more about our country than our ancestral origins.
Indeed The jews have greatly contributed to western civilization...in every field ...good and bad
but I've been saying it forever ...once they shut down the assimilation machine we were eventually going to be done for....
And here we are ....letting in millions upon million who offer absolutely nothing ...that's just the cherry on top
