My continued apologies to everyone who reads this blog for what must surely seem to have become my new modus operandi, namely a haphazard and sporadic approach to replying to your comments. Family obligations during this Thanksgiving week certainly haven't helped. Please be assured that each person who comments here is very special to me. But since it is also true that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, I can only quote another Latin phrase seldom heard nowadays, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I shall attempt to do better (translation: answer more promptly) but I cannot promise because I may be sliding slowly into senility.
The Times They Are A-Changin' Department: My country, the good old U S of A, seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, and not so slowly either. More of a headlong rush, if you ask me. Open antisemitism, which sane people thought had disappeared or gone deeply underground with the fall of the Third Reich in 1945, is back with a vengeance. It seems especially strong among college students at elite, liberal universities, fueled by radical faculty members. Raucous public protests have occurred in major cities. When asked by reporters to comment on the situation, the president's press secretary deflected and discussed strategies to combat Islamophobia. There are several extremely pro-Palestinian members of Congress (most notably Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the common denominator being the D for Democrat) but for now both the House of Representatives and the Senate are still overwhelmngly pro-Israel, as are 70 to 80% of the country according to recent polls. I'm glad we have a First Amendment to our Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom of peaceful assembly, but the 'woke' crowd and the 'cancel culture" folks have a radical agenda and seem determned to have things their way regardless of what anyone else thinks, callng them racist and Nazis and destroying our country in the process.
Our 2024 election season looms, so the next year will be crazy. That is all I'm going to say about that.
I really don't want this blog to change into a political blog, but my brain is rebelling today. Perhaps it is reacting to too much L-tryptophan in the Thanksgiving turkey.
Far left Democrats of an antisemitic bent should probably skip the next paragraph.
I see that Hanukkah this year begins at sunset on December 7th and ends at nightfall on December 15th, so do not wait until the week before Christmas to wish any Jewish friends and colleagues a Happy Hanukkah or they will think you are well-meaning but ill-informed (and they would be right).
Welcome back, far left Democrats. I see by the old clock on the wall that it is time to heat up some more Thanksgiving leftovers, so I will sign off for now.
Well said. Israel was attacked in a manner so horrible we can not fully comprehend how awful the attacks were. We have had protests on both sides of the issue in the city where I live. As it says in Ephesians, we need to stand firm.
ReplyDeleteTerra, standing firm is more important than ever.
DeleteAnti-Semitism is raging in UK, too, on the streets and in the universities. I despair.
ReplyDeletejabblog, scary days indeed, but do not despair. Remember Franklin Roosevelt's 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself'. and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'The wrong shal fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, good will to men'.
DeleteGood post on a difficult topic. It seems that it is difficult to say anything on the whole topic. Yes, the American situation is scary. Becoming senile is allowed. No arguments.
ReplyDeleteI'm so relieved that becoming senile is allowed. It takes a lot of the pressure off!
DeleteI've been senile since my twenties, and have brain tumours, which is perhaps why I see things so simply, that violence, war, hatred and discrimination are not the way to resolve anything.
ReplyDeleteTasker, I agree completely.
ReplyDeleteThe current political climate in America is horrifying. We in this house stand with Israel eight days a week and as they are our one of our greatest ALLIES, all true Americans should do the same. Our colleges and universities have been churning out radical leftists for a century now. It's no great surprise that we have ended up here. God help us. And yes we have Jewish friends, whom we cherish. xoxo
ReplyDeleteThe prophet Isaiah said "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil". We seem o have reached that point. Thank you, Jenny.
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