All right...time for a little bit of honest introspection...

[Cliffenstein]

Nothing like a little anti semitism

It's one thing that liberals consistently do well.

[Skate4RnR]

Nothing like a little anti semitism

It's one thing that liberals consistently do well.

Well since you neo-cons have the market cornered on stereotyping, racism was the only option left.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Nothing like a little anti semitism

It's one thing that liberals consistently do well.

Yeah, if there's one thing that liberals are totally known for, it's their racism.

To quote Foghorn Leghorn, I said I said there's somethin' wrong with you, son.

[Cliffenstein]

Yeah, if there's one thing that liberals are totally known for, it's their racism.

There's so much racism within liberal ranks it isn't even funny. Any fair-minded observer can see it a mile away.

[bane]

Yeah, if there's one thing that liberals are totally known for, it's their racism.

There's so much racism within liberal ranks it isn't even funny. Any fair-minded observer can see it a mile away.

I'm not a big fan of liberal politics either dude, but that statement is just plain ridiculous. Are you playing the "reverse racism" card? That's the only way I can see any truth to your statement, at all.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Yes, because you've proven yourself to be a picture of fair-minded observation an anti-partisanship in this forum for months now.

I think your retardation might be medically certifiable, Cliffy.

[MurrayFiend]

Just 'cause I hate that dumb coon Michael Steele, doesn't make me a racist.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Don't worry, Murray - your role as the resident nigger lover will never be in jeopardy.

[MurrayFiend]

Well, God intended for me to be this way. That's all I'll say on the matter. But thanks.

[Cliffenstein]

Yeah, if there's one thing that liberals are totally known for, it's their racism.

There's so much racism within liberal ranks it isn't even funny. Any fair-minded observer can see it a mile away.

I'm not a big fan of liberal politics either dude, but that statement is just plain ridiculous. Are you playing the "reverse racism" card? That's the only way I can see any truth to your statement, at all.

Every time a liberal refers to a black republican as an uncle Tom it's racism. Antisemitism runs wild throughout the liberal communities...that's racism.

[Cliffenstein]

Don't worry, Murray - your role as the resident nigger lover will never be in jeopardy.

racist jokes are okay when you're a liberal, right?

[vlad]

Can you whine a little louder, Cliffy, I don;t think we heard the first time.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Don't worry, Murray - your role as the resident nigger lover will never be in jeopardy.

racist jokes are okay when you're a liberal, right?

No, but they're okay when you're black.

Seriously, shut the fuck up, whitey. You probably can't eat a fucking sandwich without cutting it in half and making it a partisan ordeal.

[bane]

Every time a liberal refers to a black republican as an uncle Tom it's racism. Antisemitism runs wild throughout the liberal communities...that's racism.

Where is "anti semitism running wild throughout the liberal communities"? Now you're just making shit up. Racism exists in all walks of life, but, glass houses and all, your assertion is ridiculous.

"Liberal communities"? Where are these "liberal communities"? Hollywood? Yeah, those people are antisemitic as fuck. (insert sarcasm emoticon here)

[Cliffenstein]

Where is "anti semitism running wild throughout the liberal communities"? Now you're just making shit up. Racism exists in all walks of life, but, glass houses and all, your assertion is ridiculous.

Liberal Anti-Semitism
Valerie Tarico / The Huffington Post / May 4, 2009

"you fucking piece of shit jew and your stinking jew woman and inbred jew childrun and jew-lover traiter daughterinlaw deserve to torture die you filth jew liberil america hating jesus hating basterd Lord willing none of us will have to wait long america is too good for dirty jew scum of your family and your commie foundasion" - anonymous email, April 21, 2009

Mikey Weinstein is President and Founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. A Jew, a former Reagan Whitehouse attorney and an honors graduate of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, he spends his days fighting back against what has been called an "Evangelical coup" in the U.S. Military. (See Jesus Killed Mohammed 5/09.) Mikey writes letters, makes phone calls, lobbies and, when all else fails, files lawsuits on behalf of religious minorities and mainline Christians who are being subjected to relentless proselytizing from fundamentalist officers and peers. One routine part of the reaction is letters like the one he received above.

Liberal anti-Semitism is more sophisticated and subtle. Even at our worst, we don't talk about Jews, we talk about 9/11 conspiracies orchestrated by agents of Mossad. We talk, as our medieval Christian and Christian Nationalist predecessors did before us, about undue Jewish control of the monetary system. Mostly we talk about Zionists, and every Jew who has a more complex perspective on the Middle East than Amy Goodman is one.

I'm not a Jew. I am a psychologist. One of the things I learned as a therapist was to respond not just to surface words but also to the feelings and implications behind them. As a therapist, you listen to your body, your intuitive response to what is being said, and then you use your mind to sort things out. I can't say how many comments about the Israel-Palestine situation I've read on left-of-center blogs. What I can say is that the comment threads often make my stomach hurt--and not because of what is going on in Israel and Palestine. Here is the one that triggered this post.

Yes, the plight of the Palestinians is anguishing. And yes, Israel has violated international law and may well be guilty of war crimes. But at a visceral level I often have a hard time experiencing my own pain and moral sensibilities about the Middle East situation. I get so overwhelmed by the flood of thinly veiled Jew-loathing that I can't respond to anything else.

[Insertion: Let me state for the record: I categorically do not believe that criticizing Israel is inherently anti-semitic. There is plenty of reason to protest Israel's part in the seemingly endless Middle Eastern cycles of violence and suffering. What I am talking about is a certain quality of this conversation -- a distancing from Israelis explicitly or Jews more broadly as people, an exceptionalism that characterizes liberal American disgust at and demands of Jews, a pattern of silence toward some things and outrage toward others that suggest bias. And subtle or not-so-subtle versions of traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes that escape criticism (except from offended Jews) on liberal blogs.]

Perhaps I am projecting my Seattle experiences onto the net. One sweet, progressive activist neighbor refused to come to a panel discussion I hosted because, along with an atheist, a Christian minister and a Sufi minister the panel included a rabbi. A friend equated the invasion of Gaza with the Holocaust. A political teammate couldn't see the difference between Obsession's bitter flow of misogynist verses and the forged conspiracies in the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. (They do all love Amy Goodman.) So maybe my gut is wrong.

But besides gut feelings, there are other indicators that something more than compassion, fairness and yearning for a better world is at play in our reaction to the plight of the Palestinians. Several writers (e.g. here and here) have listed factors that in their minds differentiate legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism. Here are some things that caught my attention:

1. The failure to focus on the log in our own eye. Two towers come down and 4000 people die, and the majority of our population (who suddenly feel unsafe) give their blessing to the destruction of 100,000 Iraqi citizens, their basic infrastructure, their museums and their schools. Yet we mock the Israelis' sense of threat and demand inhuman perfection in their reaction. Granted, American liberals have worked long and hard against war in Iraq, but we were more conflicted about Afghanistan. And in both cases the protests lacked the absolutism of our reactions to Israel. I hear the Israeli attack on Gaza described as genocide. I never hear the American attack on Iraq described that way.

2. Our silence when it comes to the role of the surrounding countries, who want the Palestinians to remain right where they are as pawns in a global power struggle. Palestinians don't have the option to leave because Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and others don't give them that option any more than we do. Israeli-Gaza border closures work only when Egypt keeps her border closed as well. Within any group of refugees there are those who don't want to sacrifice their children on the altar of their politics--who simply want to leave and start a better life. But they are denied resettlement rights elsewhere. The Palestinian people are bandilleras(lances) in the flanks of a Spanish bull--goads that feed the pain and rage needed to sustain a battle of civilizations.

3. Our indifference to Jewish post traumatic dynamics and conditions that reactivate trauma. In Israel, men who spent their teenage years dragging bodies out of gas chambers and burying them in trenches are only just dying off. To make matters worse, threats of annihilation are ongoing. When a woman who has been molested has someone hit on her, she often gets triggered, under or over reacting because she is re-experiencing the earlier trauma. When people who have been the targets of genocide hear surrounding leaders pledge their extinction, I might imagine they would get triggered, too. If we Liberals are willing to assume that it takes a people generations to recover from slavery, can we not assume the same of genocide? I grieve at Israeli reactivity just as I grieve when African American young people say that success is White. But grieving and demanding that they be over it are two different things.

4. A double standard for Middle Eastern Countries. When Arabs or Muslims engage in mass political extermination, we say little. The same with smaller cruelties. Yet we hold the Israelis to a higher standard. Why is this? Why do we scream about Israeli rockets and yet we're mum when Hamas and Fatah are murdering each other? How about the slaughter of the Kurds or on a smaller scale, the execution of female teachers in Afghanistan. Sometimes I wonder if it is actually a form of racism against Arabs and Muslims, like when we assume that a kid is fated to be a low-achiever and we write them off. But consider: How would we react if the Israelis treated their women like Saudis do? If they treated their Hindu servants like Omanis do? If they treated their religious minorities like the Iraqis do? If they pledged the extermination of Palestinians the way that Hamas pledges itself to the extermination of Jews?

5. Our lack of comparable passion about other suffering in the world. How come the Palestinian plight taps deep feelings for so many liberals, and yet brutalities in Sudan or Sri Lanka don't have the same power to arouse us? To draw an analogy from my anti-fundamentalism work, when Evangelicals cite Leviticus to justify their attitudes toward homosexuals but then ignore the rest of Mosaic Law, something other than biblical literalism is at play. When the suffering of the Palestinian people arouses venom that seeps through in Liberal rants while other suffering leaves us cold, something other than compassion is at play.

I loathe the kind of ignorant rant that kicked off this article. But the subtle bigotry of some fellow liberals feels worse. It violates the very humanitarian rhetoric that gives it cover. As a progressive, it shames me. And it makes me scared.

Christians and their cultural descendants have been finding reasons to single out Jews since the time of Paul. Always there is some social issue that makes the antipathy seem justified to many people in the short run. And always to date anti-Semitism seems obvious in retrospect.

We humans are probably hard-wired for tribalism, and we need little excuse to see the "other" as disgusting or evil. But we also are capable of thinking more complexly. One who suffered much, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, had this to say: "If only it were all so simple, if only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." Maybe in addition to looking at the dividing lines in the Middle East we could be looking more at the dividing lines in our own hearts.

[Luminiferous]

Yes, because you've proven yourself to be a picture of fair-minded observation an anti-partisanship in this forum for months now.

I think your retardation might be medically certifiable, Cliffy.

[Cliffenstein]

Yes, because you've proven yourself to be a picture of fair-minded observation an anti-partisanship in this forum for months now.

Certainly much more so then the rank and file liberals around here who daily use invectives in an attempt to make those they disagree with back down from making their views known.

[vlad]

Yes, because you've proven yourself to be a picture of fair-minded observation an anti-partisanship in this forum for months now.

Certainly much more so then the rank and file liberals around here who daily use invectives in an attempt to make those they disagree with back down from making their views known.

What a whiny cunt! Seriously, take a gander at the TOPICS on the War Board...who's posting most of them? I think everyone has a very good idea what your views are. Quit whining.

Was that invective laden? Is this Sludge? looks around Why yes, yes it is!

[bane]

Long cut and paste whiney rant complaining about a possible double standard

Wow. I've got a few right wing evangelical comic books that got put in my 8 year old's trick or treat basket last night to counter that.

[vlad]

Wow. I've got a few right wing evangelical comic books that got put in my 8 year old's trick or treat basket last night to counter that.

The bastards! Were they in lieu of candy or with? If they gave them out (like the assholes who leave little bible sayings as "tips" for waitresses) instead of candy..t.p. their yard! Not really, but that's just plain mean.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Yes, because you've proven yourself to be a picture of fair-minded observation an anti-partisanship in this forum for months now.

Certainly much more so then the rank and file liberals around here who daily use invectives in an attempt to make those they disagree with back down from making their views known.

Uh...no.

Dude, in case you haven't noticed, you've even got other conservatives calling you a dumbass.

[Cliffenstein]

Long cut and paste whiney rant complaining about a possible double standard

Did you happen to notice the website it came from? Did you happen to take a gander at who the author is?

I gave you EXACTLY what you asked for and that's the best response you can come up with?

[vlad]

Are YOU familiar with Valerie Tarico?

I've known about this posting of hers for a very long time, I may have even had an online conversation with her after posting this dairy last year or whenever it was.. She posted it on quite a few sites, Like Kos and if memory serves "Street Prophets", a liberal religious site (yeah, such a thing exists). And a couple of other places, as well.

And if you aren't aware, the Huffington Post isn't all that liberal, there are conservative members. It's a sad state of affairs when you think anyone to the left of Andrew Breitbart is automatically a screaming liberal site.

Anyway, Valerie got taken to task for this article, and she was unable to answer the questions posed. She is a very nice lady, but in this case she was wrong to have generalised as she did. Again, as I said, she never engaged the people who commented on her diary.

And, apparently, despite the horrible anti-semitism of the left, 70% of American Jews are still to the left and vote Democratic. I know conservatives just can't understand this, maybe it's time for some soul-searching yourselves.

[Cliffenstein]

70% of American Jews are still to the left and vote Democratic. I know conservatives just can't understand this

There's a reason we don't understand it.

[Cliffenstein]

How Can Liberals Be Racist? Ask Michael Steele
Ruben Navarrette Jr / Real Clear Politics / November 9, 2005

Who's afraid of a black Republican?

Well, if that Republican's name is Michael Steele and he's seeking to become Maryland's first black senator, the answer is: Just about everyone.

Let's start with Democratic officials such as Thomas V. "Mike" Miller Jr., the president of the state Senate. In 2001, Miller called Steele -- then head of the state Republican Party -- an "Uncle Tom". Miller later apologized for the slur.

Then there are Democratic Party activists such as the ones who, when Steele was running for lieutenant governor in 2002, gave him a rude reception at a gubernatorial debate at a predominantly black university. The activists pelted Steele with Oreo cookies.

And then there are black liberals, including some who don't even live in Maryland but have made it their mission to try to torpedo Steele's Senate bid. They include a left-wing blogger in New York who posted a doctored photo of Steele depicting him as a minstrel in blackface. Amid criticism, the photo was pulled. What remains, however, is a photo of Steele with an equally offensive caption calling him "Simple Sambo".

And lastly, there are those liberals and Democratic operatives who, while claiming not to defend such blatantly vulgar and distasteful tactics, go on to, well, defend them.

Maryland State Sen. Lisa A. Gladden says Steele should accept whatever personal attacks come his way. She also says that black voters are likely to be Steele's harshest critics because, as she puts it, "party trumps race".

Wow. Someone finally said it out loud. And I'm sure Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and other Democrats will be delighted to hear it. Imagine all the outreach dollars earmarked for the black community that might now be spent pursuing white suburban soccer moms.

Party trumps race -- not to mention, common sense. Some African-American leaders complain that black people aren't getting anywhere politically. They're right. That's because they've perfected the recipe for how to become politically irrelevant -- allow yourself to be taken for granted by one party and written off by another.

Steele is a threat to the social order of things because he challenges all that. Because he stands with the GOP, he gives black Americans something that Democrats don't want them to have: options. And so, for those who prefer the status quo, the mission is clear: Steele must be discredited and his candidacy destroyed. He has to be painted as an aberration, or better yet, a sellout. That way, no self-respecting African-American will follow him to the GOP.

There's another part of this that is interesting. It used to be that African-Americans turned to the Democratic Party to protect them from discrimination and disenfranchisement. But when a black Republican comes along, African-Americans -- like that guy with the blog -- often return the favor and defend the Democratic Party as a major engine for black progress.

Democrats should be grateful for that. They can't afford too many of these kinds of firsts. Breakthroughs such as the Steele candidacy threaten the party's monopoly by showing black voters that they don't need to fall in line with the Democratic Party to be successful in politics or life.

Liberals want none of that. They're all for people making history -- as long those people are on their side of the aisle. They're all for minorities succeeding -- as long as they can claim credit for the success. And they're all for minorities becoming involved politically and voting -- as long as they continue to vote Democratic in perpetuity.

And if any of this doesn't go according to plan, then it's open season on anyone who gums up the works. Liberals think nothing of portraying blacks and other minorities who defect to the Republican Party as defective in some way.

A reader recently wrote that he was shocked that I, as a Mexican-American, would have anything nice to say about Republicans or the Bush administration because they had done so much harm to "your people".

What a condescending remark -- but what a useful example of liberal racism. Mention the words "liberal" and "racism" in one sentence in a classroom at one of the nation's most elite universities, and you'll get blank stares. For a lot of people on the left, the phrase is an oxymoron. They really don't seem to know what it means. How can liberals be racist? How can people dedicated to promoting tolerance be guilty of intolerance?

Ask Michael Steele. I bet he has a good grasp of the concept.

[vlad]

70% of American Jews are still to the left and vote Democratic. I know conservatives just can't understand this

There's a reason we don't understand it.

And that reason is?

Can you articulate it ? Are you saying that Jews, overwhelmingly liberal, are dumb or something because they simply can not see just how hateful their fellow liberals are? Why they don't fall all over themselves to vote for people like Sarah Palin or James Inhofe? Or Rossi or Tancredo or that Carl Paladino in NY?

[bane]

Wow. I've got a few right wing evangelical comic books that got put in my 8 year old's trick or treat basket last night to counter that.

The bastards! Were they in lieu of candy or with? If they gave them out (like the assholes who leave little bible sayings as "tips" for waitresses) instead of candy..t.p. their yard! Not really, but that's just plain mean.

I lieu of. Neither my boy nor I were thrilled. He's an 8 year old and those pamphlets were positively Phelpsesque. I gave serious consideration to going back to that house and doing the old dog shit burning in a paper bag on the doorstep trick.

[Cliffenstein]

And that reason is?

Why Jews and blacks vote Democrat, Part I
Dennis Prager / World Net Daily / January 21, 2003

The odds are that you have wondered at one time or another why the great majority of Jews and nearly all blacks vote Democrat. There are, after all, no other ethnic or racial groups that so overwhelmingly and consistently vote either Republican or Democrat.

Moreover, given Jewish values and given blacks' views on a host of important social issues, there is really no compelling reason for blacks and Jews to vote Democrat.

Let us begin with the Jews. Judaism, like every great religion, is essentially conservative: Judaism demands obedience to a judging God and to a moral code set forth thousands of years ago. That is why the more orthodox a Jew is religiously, the less likely he is to be a liberal politically; and the more likely he is to vote Republican. Furthermore, the dominant Jewish issue, the security and survival of the Jewish state, is also unlikely to orient a Jew politically leftward. Even sociologically, Jews voting instinctively Democratic makes little sense. Jews, more than many, consider it shameful to rely on others for welfare, raise their children to believe in hard work, and benefit from a merit-based society. Indeed, even those Jews who vote Democratic usually lead rather conservative lives.

As for blacks, their virtually unanimous voting for the Democratic Party makes even less sense. For one thing, most blacks tend to have socially conservative views (considerably more so than their fellow Democrats). Blacks tend to be religious, have traditional views on homosexuality and abortion, and believe in school vouchers, a policy strongly opposed by the party nearly all of them vote for. Moreover, while the Democratic Party has brilliantly portrayed itself as the party that made civil rights possible, a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the landmark civil-rights bills than Democrats.

None of this is meant to suggest that there are no Democratic Party positions that appeal to blacks and Jews. The great majority of blacks apparently do support affirmative action, a position entirely identified with the Democratic Party. And the majority of Jews do support larger government and higher tax rates, fundamental Democratic positions.

But if each party's policy positions were the sole determinants of Jews' and blacks' voting habits, the two groups should evenly divide their votes between the two parties.

Clearly then, it is not Democratic Party positions that explain why so many Jews and blacks vote Democrat. Something deeper must be at work.

That something is fear in the case of Jews and anger in the case of blacks. And both the Jews' fears and the blacks' anger are a result of their respective collective memories.

The Jewish memory in question is of Christian anti-Semitism and the Nazi Holocaust. Even Jews who know little about either Jewish or Christian history know by high-school age that for nearly 2,000 years, Jewish communities suffered from anti-Semitic persecution at the hands of Christians, that Christians massacred Jews during the Crusades, that there was a Spanish Inquisition, and that the Holocaust came from Nazism, a far-right doctrine.

Because of this deeply ingrained memory associating Jewish suffering with Christianity and the far right, most Jews have a primal fear of Christianity (and even of religion generally, including Judaism) and of conservatives. Jews therefore vote for the party that opposes the party associated with anything even remotely connected with public religion or the right.

The black memory in question is of white racism. It seems obvious that many African-Americans carry a residual anger against whites and against America as a result of centuries of slavery and racism. They therefore vote for the party most associated with policies (such as affirmative action) ostensibly designed to fight racism (meaning, always, white racism), and which frequently condemns alleged ongoing white racism. And blacks vote against the party they perceive as denying that America continues to be racist, the party that opposes race-based policies, and the party that celebrates America as if it isn't a racist country.

The problem with these memories is not that they are inaccurate; it is that they are no longer accurate. And they therefore paralyze the two groups who hold onto these memories, Jews and blacks.

In Part II, we will explain why these memories and perceptions are no longer accurate (and therefore paralyze blacks and Jews from clearly perceiving the present white, Christian and conservative realities), and what, if anything, Republicans, whites and Christians can do about these unfortunate perceptions. For these perceptions are ultimately bad for Jews, bad for blacks and bad for America.

[Cliffenstein]

Why Jews and blacks vote Democrat, Part II:
How memories paralyze
Dennis Prager / World Net Daily / January 21, 2003

In Part I, I argued that it is not Democratic positions that most entice nearly all blacks and the great majority of Jews to vote Democrat. Rather this lopsided voting is more a function of the two groups' respective memories.

As a result of millennia of Christian oppression of them, many Jews still fear religion, particularly Christians and Christianity, even though all the Christian anti-Semitism was European; and as a result of the Nazis, many Jews fear anything labeled "right wing." As for blacks, because of centuries of slavery and racism, many black Americans continue to harbor great anger at whites and at America.

If these memories accurately assessed today's white, Christian and right-wing Americans, Jews' and blacks' overwhelming support for the Democrats would surely make sense. Indeed, they would mandate such voting.

But these memories do not apply today, and therefore they are having a paralyzing effect on America's Jews and blacks.

The fact is that most white Americans have changed; most are no longer racist. Regarding race, most white Americans would probably like nothing more than to forget about race, as they no longer deem either their own whiteness or blacks' blackness to be of particular significance. I know from years of speaking to black callers to my radio show, however, that this is almost impossible for many of them to believe. They ask, in effect, "Are we blacks really supposed to believe that in the course of one generation an entire mindset – that of white racial superiority – has simply disappeared?"

The answer is largely, though of course not universally, yes. One reason is that most Americans are decent people. Another is the non-racist education they have received. A third is the unprecedented personal and media exposure to blacks that this generation of whites has received. And a fourth reason is that in order to believe that skin color determines a person's traits or worth, you have to be not only evil, you have to be an ignoramus; and regarding race, most Americans are no longer ignoramuses. They know too many wonderful people of all races.

As for Jews' fears of American Christians, they are even less fact-based than blacks' continuing anger at whites. American Christians were never the anti-Semites of Jewish memory. Those were European Christians who persecuted Jews for all those years, precisely the Christians that America's (Christian) founders fled to establish this different society. American Jews' fears of American Christians are therefore simply irrational, especially now when Christian Americans (outside of the National Council of Churches) are the Jews' and Israel's most loyal friends.

Memory also explains American Jews' irrational fears of the right. Because the Nazis are widely deemed far rightists (yes, Nazism stood for National Socialism, but no leftists or socialists considered it an ideological ally), Jews continuing to only look rightward for anti-Semitic threats is both silly and dangerous. It is silly because it is like looking only to the right when you cross a two-way street because your grandfather was killed by a car coming from the right. And it is dangerous because since World War II, and at this very moment, the greatest anti-Semitism has come from the left.

The result of all these misperceptions on the part of blacks and Jews is that the Democratic Party understands that in order to maintain its overwhelming black and Jewish support, it must abet black anger at whites and abet Jews' fears of Christians and conservatives. And this they do well, to the great detriment of the country.

There are signs, however, that this strategy, at least vis-a-vis the Jews, is beginning to fail. Many Jewish Democrats are thanking God that Christian conservative Republicans (George W. Bush and Dick Cheney) rather than Democrats (Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman) are in the White House. And as they look around, they find that in a world that once again has a cold spot in its heart for the Jews, virtually all their allies are conservatives.

As for blacks, I am less sanguine about the immediate future. A generation of blacks has been repeatedly told by their leaders, by liberal educators, liberal media and by the Democratic Party that America and whites are racist. They have also been told that the only way out of the social problems that plague parts of black life is through the Democratic Party.

What then should Republicans do? Talk to and especially listen to blacks. Most blacks want, more than anything else, to know that they are being heard. We can ask blacks not to allow their memories of centuries of racism to cloud their views of America today, but they can ask the rest of us not to forget those centuries. We therefore have to say sincerely to blacks, "We will not forget what this country did to you." Only when blacks know that we remember, will they allow themselves to stop being preoccupied with remembering.

With Christians speaking up for Jews and conservatives hearing blacks' memories, the Democrats will no longer be able to win elections by appealing to black anger and Jewish fear. What a better America that will be.

[CrouchingStonerHiddenBong]

Dudes, when Bill Maher finds out about this shit, he is going to be PISSED.