Socially Acceptable Hatred

American Thinker ^ | September 9, 2012 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

All the liberal Jews I talk to seem to believe that the age of anti-Semitism is over. That is often true, in countries that have mature, democratic political systems. The United States, which all good liberals learn to sneer at, has the single most mature political system in the world -- 230 years of a solid Constitution, which liberals don't much like.

Most of the world lacks a mature, time-tested and tolerant political system. Even the European Union is governed by an unelected ruling class today.

So the United States is the world home of political tolerance today. No other major country (except maybe Switzerland) has had that kind of stability and tolerance for 230 years. Naturally, the left has decided to import hundreds of thousands of the least tolerant people in the world today, so that today in London there are cases of children being sacrificed in witchcraft ceremonies; and there are cases of home-grown Muslim terrorists bombing civilian targets like the London Underground. Britain has now turned itself into a fearsome Big Brother state, with tens of thousands of CCTV cameras all over the cities. They put video cameras in garbage cans over there.

Jewish liberals are just as ignorant of history and politics as all the other liberals you know.

Vast deserts of political ignorance makes liberalism possible.

Liberal Jews love the tolerance they enjoy in this country, and they often harbor a nasty case of guilt and anger against orthodox Jews, who don't assimilate the way liberals do.

Liberalism is a species of mental conformity. It makes thinking unnecessary.

Thinking is scary.

All you need to do is believe the 24/7 media, and you feel like a member of the herd. The herd protects. At least, it protects until it turns against you. The biggest fear...

[Sherman Logan]

Japan did not give up in WWII because the casualty rates were unacceptable.

They gave up because they had lost the ability to fight back effectively and (more importantly) because the moral shock of the A bomb finally gave those who wanted to give in the upper hand over the fight till everybody is dead crowd. And even then the extremists almost prevented the surrender.

Oh, I forgot the deadliest war of modern times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War

60% to 90% of population dead. Took place during and after our War. Paraguay picked a fight with an alliance of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. Quick look at map indicates this not a good idea.

[lentulusgracchus]

Its Orwellian preaching with - let’s face it - some pretty loose assumptions, is pretty offensive.

In what way is it "Orwellian"? Do you mean that it's "prolefeed", an invitation to "Two Minutes' Hate"? Or that it propounds the lesson Orwell learned the hard way, very nearly at the cost of his life, about dealing with the Communists in Spain when they got nasty about pushing the labor-syndicalist leadership of the Spanish Republican forces aside (and executing many of them), and taking over the war in the name of Stalin and Stalinism?

I'm not sure what you mean.

[lentulusgracchus]

... I largely agree with Karl. I hate it when that happens. BTW, I haven’t looked into his more doctrinal type writings recently, but if this article is typical the guy was a hell of a writer.

Really bellyfeel old Karl's prolefeed, do you? But you hate it when you realize what you're doing? Mmmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.

Yeah, maybe there is a lesson in there somewhere.

[lentulusgracchus]

In actual fact, the tariff issue tended to unite the NW with the South (both mainly agricultural regions) against the NE. This allowed the South to dominate national politics for decades before the War.

So what do you do if you want to break that up?

Wedge issue!

[Sherman Logan]

The term “wedge issue” is usually used to describe a more or less unimportant issue blown out of proportion by the opposition to drive a wedge between two factions of its opponents.

That was not the case here, where slavery and its expansion was a quite genuine issue.

The expansion of slavery was a highly effective wedge, but as an issue it was created by southern and Democratic Party insistence on changing the 30 years settled Missouri Compromise to allow slavery to expand into Kansas and Nebraska.

So it was a wedge issue they created and used against their own interests.

In actual fact the issue was created by the extremist”fire-eaters” of the South whose true goal was to force the South out of the Union. They succeeded in accomplishing their faction’s goals, though very much against the interests of the South as a whole, as it turned out.