Lots of great nuggets in the piece, including: "the more people allow feelings to govern them, the less happy they will be. And the further left one goes, the more importance one attaches to feelings."
Also "feelings are not as important as behavior".
AMEN.
He has a way of taking all those little, nagging thoughts you have had about liberals and distilling them into a fine brew.
I really enjoyed this piece.
Facts, schmacts! Liberalism is predicated on making people feeeeeeeel good.
There's not a lot of new stuff in here, but it's all woven together nicely.
Update: TOTALLY RELATED.
This is a keeper.
"...when Frank Rich and most other Jews on the left see right-wing non-Jews, they see swastikas. It is an inversion of the famous scene in Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall in which a WASP character is depicted as seeing the Woody Allen character as a Hasidic Jew. Most American Jews on the left (like leftist professors on college campuses) inhabit an insular universe, where regular (never mind intimate) contact with conservatives — especially Christian conservatives — is almost non-existent."
"As a Jew who has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism — from being sent by Israel to the former Soviet Union to aid Soviet Jews, to writing a book on anti-Semitism (Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism), to serving on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — I have always found any trivialization of Nazism and the Holocaust offensive. That Jews would do this — to fellow Americans, no less — and solely in order to serve their left-wing politics, is worse than offensive. It is immoral."
Your must read of the morning.
Prager is one smart dude.
He leaves no stone unturned.
This is basically a summary of all the conversations you have had with your (sane) friends about the wussification of men in our times.
This is of course, not just about American men, the same goes for every Western nation. I think there is an exception with Israel-because there is compulsory military service there.
Here's the real kicker though:
"There are any number of reasons American women suffer from depression more than ever before and more than men. It is difficult to believe that one of those reasons is not the very emasculation of men that the movement working in their name helped to bring about. And so, a vicious cycle has commenced -- men stop being men; women become man-like; men retreat even further from their manly role; and women get sadder."
UPDATE: Memo to Real Men: You are not any less manly if you put the toilet seat down so we don't fall into the toilet at night. Thanks.
Dennis has been churning them out for a long time, and is also an excellent radio host. I think he's a really smart guy. This piece examines the desire by the left to "transform" America and has a little nugget that I quite like-and may have to "liberate" at some point.
"Many years ago, the prominent Jewish writer, my friend since childhood, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, helped to clarify -- in a non-partisan way -- a major difference between liberals and conservatives. "Conservatives," he said, "romanticize the past; liberals romanticize the future." "In light of those frequently made criticisms of America, I have often asked representatives of the left why they criticize America so much if they love it so much. "Precisely because we love America, we criticize it. You criticize that which you love," is the nearly universal response.But, of course, it isn't true. If you constantly criticize your spouse, for example, it is difficult to imagine that you really do love him or her. And perhaps more important, it is very unlikely that your spouse feels loved. That is why after being routinely described as racist, sexist, imperialist, etc., it is difficult to be able to tell that America is loved by the left.""This is not written in order to indict the left, let alone the president, for not loving America. No one can measure an other's feelings. Furthermore I do not question the sincerity of anyone who says he loves America. What I question are the actions and rhetoric of those who claim to love America yet want to transform and remake it."
