”Not in my lifetime,” I used to think when contemplating America’s decline and fall—a decline and fall I eagerly anticipate as a prelude to remaking our crumbly republic such that it stands for the ideals it professes to uphold but unreservedly ignores. Blind justice, disinterested leaders and institutions, tolerance of others, freedom of thought and speech, a Jeffersonian respect for reason and knowledge: Those who come after me will see the imperium’s collapse and will begin the work of restoration, but not I.
So I long assumed. And so does the pace of events suggest I may well be wrong. Things I used to think would take, maybe, 20 years now occur in five or six or seven. If I reckoned some turn of history’s wheel was a decade out, what do you know but that it now seems hard upon us.
Decline and fall. It is not pleasant to live in such a time as ours, but it is, as the Chinese are credited with saying (or was it the Arabs?) interesting. Let us not, as we accept our fate, lose sight of the optimism within the apparent pessimism.
On May 2 the House passed a bill that, broadly speaking, defines as “antisemitic” any criticism of Israel, or—heaven forbid!—disapproval of Israel as a “Jewish state.” The kookier House members have been trying to get this rationally disconnected piece of legislation to the floor for eight years. The House now sends the Antisemitism Awareness Act to the Senate on a 320–to–19 vote.
As if to second the House’s intent, President Biden announced, a May 7 event marking the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual remembrance day, a series of new legal and administrative measures to counter the nonexistent crisis of antisemitism that now overtakes the U.S. the way a Communist takeover did in the 1950s. Will someone explain why we hear daily about all this antisemitism but cannot see anything of it more than the odd, unalarming case—the everyday here-and-there variety? Someone, anyone?
This is an assault on reason, language, law—and even that highest of American “values”—common sense. It is a sign of American weakness and further advances this weakness. I would ask what the people pushing this bill are thinking, but the question implies an assumption one ought not make.
The “threat” of communist takeover was then as the “threat” of anti semitism is today - a rhetorical bludgeon used to erode American liberty. He may or may not consider the possibility of a communist takeover in the 1950s as having been a plausible reality.
Imo, to say that we are ruled by “communists” is I think a bit short sighted. “Communism” and “capitalism” are both rungs of the ladder far below the actual ideology of whoever engineered the “take-over”, and regarding when it occurred, I think convincing cases could be made for dates far earlier than the 50s
The “threat” of communist takeover was then as the “threat” of anti semitism is today - a rhetorical bludgeon used to erode American liberty.
Except that we now have been able to look at the KGB archives, and the Venona intercepts were declassified, and now we know that the "threat of communist takeover" was real. Commies had infiltrated the government, and McCarthy was absolutely correct.
Furthermore, social justice is communism applied to social dynamics, instead of class, and we all know social justice is the dominant religion of academia and the professional class.
Additionally every person who was tried and escaped from McCarthy ended up being a literal spy. Including the investigation that led to his fall from favor. McCarthy was a hero.
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So antisemitism really is overtaking the US?
History does rhyme, doesn't it?
I think his point is:
The “threat” of communist takeover was then as the “threat” of anti semitism is today - a rhetorical bludgeon used to erode American liberty. He may or may not consider the possibility of a communist takeover in the 1950s as having been a plausible reality.
Imo, to say that we are ruled by “communists” is I think a bit short sighted. “Communism” and “capitalism” are both rungs of the ladder far below the actual ideology of whoever engineered the “take-over”, and regarding when it occurred, I think convincing cases could be made for dates far earlier than the 50s
Except that we now have been able to look at the KGB archives, and the Venona intercepts were declassified, and now we know that the "threat of communist takeover" was real. Commies had infiltrated the government, and McCarthy was absolutely correct.
Furthermore, social justice is communism applied to social dynamics, instead of class, and we all know social justice is the dominant religion of academia and the professional class.
Additionally every person who was tried and escaped from McCarthy ended up being a literal spy. Including the investigation that led to his fall from favor. McCarthy was a hero.
ohhhhh muh antisemitismus
not a peep from this dickwad when they've been doing the same to americans since the 50s
I’m thoroughly exhausted of it all.