With Glenn Beck warning about the racist bigot bannon, these are sage words that speak to me as a Jew. And I don't really care what donny's minions say in response. Donny's world is ending, God willing peacefully and soon. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/217831/what-to-do-about-trump
The first, and most obvious, is this: Treat every poisoned word as a promise. When a bigoted blusterer tells you he intends to force members of a religious minority to register with the authorities—much like those friends and family of Siegfried’s who stayed behind were forced to do before their horizon grew darker—believe him. Don’t try to be clever. Don’t lean on political intricacies or legislative minutia or historical precedents for comfort. Don’t write it off as propaganda, or explain it away as just an empty proclamation meant simply to pave the path to power. Take the haters at their word, and assume the worst is imminent.\
I'm doing just that. The KKK, alt right and all bigots mean what they say and say what they mean and they're cheering what is going on now. That's totally sufficient for me.
Then as now, many were amused by the demagogue and moved by his vile vision. Some have perfectly reasonable explanations for their decisions, while others have little to go on but incoherent rage. It doesn’t matter. Voters are all adults, and all have made their choices, and it is now you who must brace for impact. Whether you choose to forgive those, friends and strangers alike, who cast their votes so deplorably is a matter of personal choice, and none but the most imperious among us would advocate a categorical rejection of millions based on their electoral actions, no matter how irresponsible and dim. So while you make these personal calculations, remember that what matters now isn’t analysis: It’s survival.
Exactly 100% correct. NEVER AGAIN
Refuse to accept what’s going on as the new normal. Not now, not ever. In the months and years to come, decisions will be made that may strike you as perfectly sound, appointments announced that are inspired, and policies enacted you may even like. Friends and pundits will reach out to you and, invoking nuance, urge you to admit that there’s really nothing to fear, that things are more complex, that nothing is ever black or white. It’s a perfectly sound argument, of course, but it’s also dead wrong: This isn’t about policy or appointments or even about outcomes. This isn’t a political contest—it’s a moral crisis.
Truth will win. Liars lose. Justice will win. Injustice shall lose. Brotherhood and sisterhood will win. Attempts to turn the clock back by alt right bigots or Islamic terrorists will lose. The future will win. Bigotry will lose. Muslims are my brothers and sisters. Blacks are my brothers and sisters. Hispanics are my brothers and sisters. The poor are my brothers and sisters. Those here illegally are my brothers and sisters.
A fire is gathering force and growing which will sweep away the old world and bring in a new one.
The first, and most obvious, is this: Treat every poisoned word as a promise. When a bigoted blusterer tells you he intends to force members of a religious minority to register with the authorities—much like those friends and family of Siegfried’s who stayed behind were forced to do before their horizon grew darker—believe him. Don’t try to be clever. Don’t lean on political intricacies or legislative minutia or historical precedents for comfort. Don’t write it off as propaganda, or explain it away as just an empty proclamation meant simply to pave the path to power. Take the haters at their word, and assume the worst is imminent.\
I'm doing just that. The KKK, alt right and all bigots mean what they say and say what they mean and they're cheering what is going on now. That's totally sufficient for me.
Then as now, many were amused by the demagogue and moved by his vile vision. Some have perfectly reasonable explanations for their decisions, while others have little to go on but incoherent rage. It doesn’t matter. Voters are all adults, and all have made their choices, and it is now you who must brace for impact. Whether you choose to forgive those, friends and strangers alike, who cast their votes so deplorably is a matter of personal choice, and none but the most imperious among us would advocate a categorical rejection of millions based on their electoral actions, no matter how irresponsible and dim. So while you make these personal calculations, remember that what matters now isn’t analysis: It’s survival.
Exactly 100% correct. NEVER AGAIN
Refuse to accept what’s going on as the new normal. Not now, not ever. In the months and years to come, decisions will be made that may strike you as perfectly sound, appointments announced that are inspired, and policies enacted you may even like. Friends and pundits will reach out to you and, invoking nuance, urge you to admit that there’s really nothing to fear, that things are more complex, that nothing is ever black or white. It’s a perfectly sound argument, of course, but it’s also dead wrong: This isn’t about policy or appointments or even about outcomes. This isn’t a political contest—it’s a moral crisis.
Truth will win. Liars lose. Justice will win. Injustice shall lose. Brotherhood and sisterhood will win. Attempts to turn the clock back by alt right bigots or Islamic terrorists will lose. The future will win. Bigotry will lose. Muslims are my brothers and sisters. Blacks are my brothers and sisters. Hispanics are my brothers and sisters. The poor are my brothers and sisters. Those here illegally are my brothers and sisters.
A fire is gathering force and growing which will sweep away the old world and bring in a new one.
