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THANKFUL WITH NO BUTS: A CONSERVATIVE THANKSGIVING
You can never say no buts. Without buts no improvement will come. We have lots of things to improve, including our will to defend our culture, our slippage from the free market, the judicial takeover of the government, to name a few.
On the other side. My grandfather in the first few years of the 20th century was financed by Rothschild to emigrate from Rumania to the US to escape the draft. Ya'akov, changed his name to a more American Jack Silverstone.
He became a farmer near Seattle. As was the custom in those perilous times for farmers, they stocked up on inputs for sowing by getting credit from the shopkeeper. When Grandpa went to the shopkeeper and got the credit, he felt compelled to tell him, "You know I'm Jewish."
The shopkeeper was taken aback for several seconds, then said, "Jack, did I say something to offend you?"
Years later Grandpa told me that was the moment he knew he was in America, and no longer in Europe.
Yes there has been Jew-hatred in America, but it was never instituionalized. Unlike Europe, Jews were never prohibited from owning land, from moving where they pleased, from holding religious services or from forming organizations.
Yes they were excluded for years from the highest levels of banking and corporate offices. But many Jewish economists like the late Milton Freidman attributes Jewish success in America to that exclusion. Instead they became entrepeneurs and started their own banks like Goldman-Sachs.
Now the Jew-Hatred comes from the looney left who also are America haters and Western civilization haters, not to mention Christian haters. The greatest friends Israel now has among Americans are evangelical Christians. Among the greatest Jew-haters are American left-wing Jews.
As my Grandpa used to say about being America when asked how he felt, he said, "I'm first class and a half and three quarters."
dennist
