It’s Veterans Day in America and the drums of war are beating louder lately. President Biden laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery and gave a speech (begins at 1:09:05 in the NBC News video above). Beyond Biden delivering this speech yelling, which was annoying, I got disgusted as his speech devolved into a campaign speech about all the things he’s done for vets. It was a truly awful partisan political speech for what should have been a national moment of unity. Somehow America’s leaders no longer seem to even try to muster even a few moments where they put aside their rabid partisan politics and work to pull Americans together.
Added to this, all morning the news has been about the large crowds of Americans, especially young people, taking to the streets again – waving Palestinian flags in America… on Veterans Day. These protestors keep ranting about eliminating the state of Israel, which they accuse of being an “oppressor” and a “colonizer.”
Back in the 1990s, Robert Bork, a conservative judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the US Senate in 1987, wrote a book, Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, which took a pretty negative view of modern liberalism and offered shrill warnings. Despite his tone, I think looking at where America is at now, especially with the radical leftist ideological takeover of our colleges and universities, that Bork’s warnings turned out to be accurate.
Bork was a law professor at Yale during the 1960s and early 1970s when radical activism swept American colleges. Yale had some violent incidents, like a murder and bombing carried out by the Black Panthers. He explained how instead of college presidents enforcing rules and upholding standards of conduct, all across America, college administrations caved to the radical protestors demands. The Black Panthers was only one of many radical groups that sprang up in 60s on American college campuses. Bork wrote:
“The temporary abeyance of the Sixties temper was due to the radicals graduating from the universities and becoming invisible until they reached positions of power and influence, as they now have, across the breadth of the culture. They no longer have need for violence or confrontation: since the radicals control the institutions they formerly attacked, the Sixties temper manifests itself in subtler, but no less destructive ways.”
Bork wrote that in the 1990s and we’re seeing that those Boomer age radicals among the elites, who run everything now and who pushed all the policies that have led to this craziness, are having their cushy positions of power challenged by young radicals leftists, who are even more radical than they were in the 1960s. Some of those 60s radicals still showed up at BLM marches in 2020 and are at the “Free Palestine” marches, but most don’t. They’ve moved on to amassing power, wealth and they live lives of privilege.
One of those 60s radicals, Hillary Clinton, who was one of Bork’s law students, is now positioning herself as the left’s serene, elder stateswoman. She showed up at The View last week and she’s been at other news venues to try to guide liberals toward less radical positions in regards to the Israel-Hamas war. Listening to Hillary trying to calm the waters on The View, was quite interesting – she presented a brief history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, trying to take credit for her husband’s ME policy efforts, but she carefully avoided any mention of her role as Obama’s Secretary of State, where he empowered the most radical Palestinian factions. Obama came into office determined to change the Bush policy of isolating Hamas. Obama wanted to open up dialogue with Hamas (and that legitimized them). Here’s a 2009 article from The Guardian: Obama camp ‘prepared to talk to Hamas’. If I didn’t know better, I’d think she wants to raise her visibility as a “ready to take the reins” Democrat option for 2024, if things go south for Biden.
For Americans (like me) with traditional values and a world view based on rule of law, human rights and a belief in American exceptionalism, the anti-Israel protesting and embrace of the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas, feels like we’re in some bizarre alter-universe. Hamas would gladly slaughter these American leftists, especially gay and trans people, although they might spare Palestinian Americans. Yet, many American liberals are choosing to join these crowds drummed up on college campuses and online – just like millions of Americans rushed to the streets in 2020 to virtue-signal about BLM.
Perhaps part of the problem is the widespread subversion of our education system and perhaps in the digital information age, there’s way more inaccurate, incomplete and deliberately false information flooding social media and news sites. Perhaps part is due to young people getting most of their information from TikTok. Then there’s the alarming truth that the old way most Americans viewed the world, where modern civilization and democratic values were our aspiration has been replaced by a world view of “oppressed vs. oppressor” and the Marxist-tinged politics of the far-left among most American young people. What if the anti-Israel as a “colonizer” is only part of the far-left view and that in this leftist framework America is an even worse “colonizer” and this large segment of Americans raging about Israel also want to tear down America too. I doubt a single one of these people protesting would lift a finger to defend America and a disturbing number of them would rush to aid the people attacking our country.
Back in 2020 with the BLM rioting, the airwaves were filled with discussions of “systemic racism” and “white privilege” along with demands that we “defund the police.” This national firestorm was ignited by BLM activists, who used the George Floyd case as the face of their national effort to force radical changes to American law enforcement – they literally wanted police departments around the country to be defunded. There were also demands to federalize all law enforcement and thus take away the constitutional right of states and local governments of having control of policing. Add-ons to the demands kept piling up, like renaming military installations named after Confederate generals and removal of all sorts of statues (not only Confederate ones) that offended the sensibilities of some “oppressed” group.
In a couple recent posts I mentioned Ben Crump and CAIR in reference to the Muslim boy in Illinois, who was stabbed to death by his family’s landlord. I did mention the Ben Crump/George Floyd connection and I don’t want to diminish this child’s murder. I hope his murderer is prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but in Illinois there is no death penalty and the federal government seeking the death penalty is much rarer than states. At the same time I don’t trust any narrative framed by Crump, who looks for cases to exploit to incite racial tensions in America and especially by CAIR, which is part of the Hamas propaganda apparatus in America. This isn’t just my opinion, it’s a fact determined by the US Justice Department when they prosecuted the Holy Land Foundation in 2004. The Holy Land Foundation was ostensibly raising money for humanitarian assistance for Palestinians, but was actually providing materiel support for terrorism. CAIR was part of a long list of Muslim Brotherhood groups operating in the US, who were also arms of the Hamas network and the US government listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land case. For years after the Holy Land case, CAIR decried being labeled as an unindicted co-conspirator. If anyone at the FBI knows that CAIR is the propaganda arm of Hamas in America, it’s FBI director, Christopher Wray, because in that link I provided for the Holy Land Foundation case in 2004, Wray was the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division back then.
As a closing thought, I believe Biden is being tested by all these Iranian proxy attacks on US Forces and he’s showing America’s adversaries that the Biden who bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal and who took a week to decide to shoot down an unmanned Chinese spy balloon floating across America hasn’t learned a thing, His displays of weakness are a green light to all our adversaries. The Biden administration is just like the Obama administration, where red lines weren’t really red lines and Jen Psaki at the Obama State Department would hold up hashtag signs and think our adversaries took that seriously. I doubt Biden will muster an effective response to further attacks on American forces.
Recent news reports indicate that there’s an angry fifth column inside the US government, who are demanding Biden not support Israel and demanding a ceasefire. It’s likely we’ve got quite a big “enemy within” problem that is much more ominous than the Trumpian belief in a “Deep State” out to get Trump. I think most of our educated elites have been steeped in this leftist Intersectionality/oppressor vs. oppressed ideology and no longer hold any loyalty to the United States of America. Just yesterday, I saw this news: Over 1,000 USAID officials call for Gaza ceasefire in letter. These are government employees, who signed a letter opposing the official policy of the President of the United States, whom they’re serving… Same thing happened in Congress with Congressional aides…
America is at a very alarming point.
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