Is Socialism Jewish?

Is Socialism Jewish?

Socialism is an insidious doctrine because Socialism falsely appeals to the better side of our natures as Jews and as human beings. By dishonest and deceptive means, Socialism co-opts the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam, the command to repair the world, to do good works, a virtue that, while innate to human beings, reflects a person’s character and is something that is learned and promoted by faith family and culture. Socialism exploits and, as such, perverts this natural human tendency, one that offers the individual the gift of a sense of meaning and purpose in life, by replacing volitional and moral human action, Tukkun Olam, with the godless man-made state. Socialism turns Tikkun Olam into an agenda to change human nature and, as such, to create, ultimately, a collectivist one world ant colony.

A free and, as such, a moral society is one that consists of an imperfect system of laws that encourage and aid the individual who seeks to repair the world by preserving, protecting and defending the inalienable right of individual to repair himself. A free society establishes parameters and provides infrastructure by which the free citizen can repair himself and, as such, repair the world. At the same time the free society regulates excesses and corruptions that are associated with free will and freedom of action and, as such, a free society tempers and restrains the darker tendencies of human nature.

Human nature does not need to be changed and, at any rate, human nature cannot be changed. We are imperfect beings created in the image of God but we are not God and, as such, we will never be perfect or, at the end of the day, we will not be changed at least not by the hand of man. We are capable, however, of change as individuals and we can, as such, repair the world. We can engage in Tikkun Olam as individuals or by working with others.  Individuals and voluntary groups thus engage in Tikkun Olam as a reflection of personal values and in order to fulfill an innate inner need.

God gave us a blueprint, a constitution if you will, for how to repair the world and that is the Torah.  The Torah identifies names and separates all basic elements of existence physical as well as spiritual and abstract. The Torah offers a guidebook in terms of proper and improper means of interacting with each other in all basic aspects of our relationships personal and business as well as a code of conduct and rules of interaction for sovereign nations. By learning the ways and the means of the Torah we are set free, within these guidelines, to live our lives, to create, to invent, to influence and to determine the course of our own lives and our own destinies within the concept of what is possible.

We can repair the world, as we have often done in the United States, by creating a society of law that recognizes and fosters freedom so that the citizen is free to improve himself to the extent that he chooses to do so. Tikkun Olam can have a concentric effect, like a drop of water in a pool the ripples outward. Tikkun Olam, Mitzvah, Tzadakah, Rachmanos, these affect others and hold the potential to create wider circles which could reverberate across the world. We do not need the gun-backed state to effect Tikun Olam, even if that state is controlled, in fact especially if that state is controlled by imposters who pose as enlightened ones who promise to change the world and human nature.

This is the lie of the Garden of Eden. The serpent promised Eve that she and Adam could know all things, could be all things, by partaking in the forbidden fruit.  Adam and Eve turned their backs on God, indeed they performed an act that attempted to overthrow God, when they partook in the forbidden fruit. Since that time, men and women have had the option of choosing God, with all of the mystery and imperfection that accompanies this choice, or Man, which is a godless rule by a clique of men and women who claim to be enlightened, who feel justified in the use of force to change human nature and, as such, to try to redefine existence and, essentially, to try to become God.

The Socialist promise is intoxicating and alluring, a claim that man is the originator of all things and that man can be a god. The problem with the Socialist promise is that it is false while the belief in God, a supernatural being that exists outside of the human mind is, to use the phrase founding father Thomas Jefferson put in the Declaration of Independence, self-evident. The Socialist lie and deception has existed in every generation since the days of Adam and Eve. The idea of being part of replacing the creator of the universe, the law-giver, the supreme being whose laws are beyond human manipulation with a clique of humans taking the law into their own hands and defining reality is indeed alluring. This has been the religion of every socialist movement from the Reign of Terror to the Communists and the Nazis, all of which called themselves progressive and all of which sought earthly control in the name of science.

As Jews, we seek to change ourselves by looking for guidance to the Torah, which we consider to be the word of God. The importance of believing that the Torah is the word of God, a concept that is central to our faith, is that the laws, the morals and the ethics that are contained within the Torah are, as such, immutable and are beyond the power to be manipulated and corrupted by the imperfect and corrupted mind and hand of man. The Torah is, as such, the blueprint for how we are to live our lives, how we are to engage with each other and how nations are to engage with each other.

Judaism is not compatible with Socialism. While we believe that God created us in his image, Socialism holds, as the first tenet of its political faith, that man is an evolving animal. We believe that the human being is a spiritual being with a soul. Socialism holds the material view that man is a human resource and that the individual exists at different rungs of the evolutionary chain and is, as such, not created equal. We believe the in the volitional ability of the individual to reason and, as such, to understand right and wrong. Socialism holds Collectivism, absolute equality, the one world ant colony as the true goal of human society and as the ultimate virtue.

We believe in God, they believe in Man.

Black Lives Matter should protest the left

If they actually cared about the plight of African-Americans, Black Lives Matter would protest the left. Racist left-wing ideas and policies targeted African-Americans as far back as Margaret Sanger's “Negro Project” which sought to reduce the number of black people who she referred to as members of a “dysgenic race.” In this pursuit, Sanger set up abortion clinics in Harlem and paid black ministers to promote them in 1939.

In the 1960’s the black family was relatively intact, the black church was a moral force and black entrepreneurs and businesses were rising fast in spite of real racism and discrimination. Then came the radical left-wing welfare do-gooders who began paying women to get rid of their men and then paying them more to have babies out of wedlock. The result was a generation of young black men who grew up without the benefit of having a father in the home.

The so-called “progressive” educators had by then virtually taken over the public schools, which they increasingly nationalized through left-wing teachers union, the National Education Association. They changed education from one based on cognitive learning, by which the student learned to think on his own, to behaviorism which turned the student into a human resource. This change was particularly detrimental to black children who were, thanks largely to the left, growing up in single parent families. Around this time, the left-wing educrats began to replace phonics with look-say guessing and the deliberate result has been learning disabilities and a generation of virtual illiterates.

The corrupt anti-Capitalist left-wing Democratic Party machine governments operating in many of our big cities, such as Detroit and Newark, set up regulations that made it difficult for black entrepreneurs to get into business or to expand their businesses. On the national level high taxes and onerous regulations, not to mention a denigration of business and profits generally, combined with the rise of welfare hit the black community with a double punch. With the accompanying diminution of opportunity, and with a weakened system of law and order and a failure to address the problem of illegal drugs flowing in from Latin America, young unemployed black men would often succumb to the temptation of drug dealing and drug consumption and the crime that goes along with that. 

Today, the only group that actually cares about the real welfare of the black community is policemen who deal with the symptoms the left has caused. They risk their lives to protect the black community from the crime that is the social manifestation of a deplorable basket of left-wing ideas and policies. While police are far from perfect and while mistakes are made and those mistakes should have consequences, Black Lives Matter should recognize that the police are actually one of the few genuine friends the inner city black community has as they face a breakdown of law and order brought about by the left’s influence on a system of justice that favors the perpetrator of a crime over the victim.

Now that the left has wreaked havoc over the black community over these many decades, and now that they have enriched themselves with their cottage industries of social services that they set up to address the problems they caused, they are now launching a new agenda with so-called micro-aggression. In spite of the fact that real racism has been greatly reduced in our multi-ethnic country and that larger numbers black people have become successful in spite of their negative policies, the left now wants to put the rest of us under a microscope to see if they can find racist micro-organisms. We should note that the only people who will subject to this totalitarian scrutiny will be conservatives or anyone who might dissent from the left.

If Black Live Matter actually cared about the plight of black people, if they wanted to put an end to black people being used as cannon-fodder for the revolution of the top 1%, the vast majority of whom are on the left. They would stand with those of us who oppose this tyranny and take the side of genuine progress.

Is Trump the post-racial President?

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Americans looked forward to the beginning of a post-racial era. A Gallup poll released a week after the election indicated that 75% of Americans believed that as president Obama would help heal racial divisions. Few realistically expected racism to end but most, including most of those who voted against him, hoped that he would preside over improved race relations as part of an era of growing opportunity for all.   

Obama squandered this historic opportunity. He failed to contribute substantially toward healing race conflict, in fact he exacerbated it, not because of bad leadership but rather because of his liberal instincts and mindset. Obama placed his loyalty to liberalism over that of his own country and even over his own legacy.

Racism is the fuel that drives the liberal agenda in America. If liberals had left blacks alone back in the 1960’s they would have assimilated into the American culture like other ethnic and racial groups. This is not to say that racism would have magically disappeared. Nevertheless, by the late 1950’s, blacks were rapidly entering the middle class, developing businesses and entering into higher education in increasing numbers and this was occurring despite the real racism of the time which took on ugly and hateful forms such as jim crow laws.

Starting in the 1960’s, particularly after the Republican inspired Civil Rights Act of 1965, liberals began to develop a self-serving multi-billion-dollar cottage industry made up of so-called professionals, a class of public sector agencies, non-profits and private businesses, all predominantly staffed by liberals and driven by taxpayer funded grants. Liberals began to administer over the problems in the black community that their ideas and their policies were largely responsible for creating, and they began to feather their own nests in the process.

In the 1960’s communist agitators instigated riots that burned down black neighborhoods in cities such as Detroit, Newark, Chicago and elsewhere. These neighborhoods would in many cases not recover for a generation or more and this occurred at a time of growing prosperity. The race oriented agitprop that contributed to those riots was backed by mainstream liberals and their media mouthpieces. Many cities with large black populations would subsequently fall under the sway of corrupt liberal anti-business Democratic political machines where many remain.

The launch of the War on Poverty, with its nationalization of welfare programs, contributed to the disintegration of the largely intact black family. Women were paid to get rid of their husbands and to have children out of wedlock. Indeed, even today, some families receive more revenue and benefits from welfare than the working poor. The resulting unemployment and the despair, particularly of young black men growing up without a father, led to many of the social ills that liberals claim to champion.

The liberal attitude toward faith contributed to a diminution of the influence of the black church which had historically been one of the most powerful forces in American Christendom both black and white. Belief in God and the power of the individual to achieve in this lifetime was largely replaced by a sense of victimhood and resentment. Liberals virtually destroyed black education with such crackpot methods as replacing phonetic reading with look-say which contributed toward illiteracy and cognitive dissonance. Studies have shown that a high percentage of men incarcerated in prison today are functionally illiterate. Liberal anti-business policies hurt black self-sufficiency and achievement not to mention employment.

And then along came Obama, the post-racial president who, while ignoring these problems, essentially declared war on the last bastion of responders to the crisis the liberals created, the police. After decades of liberal policies that led to inner-city crime, liberal judges that let criminals get off scott free and liberal propaganda that excused crime, the police, while far from perfect, were the last line of defense for the 99% of the law-abiding residents of the black community. Obama fed into fake news by pushing racial narratives against policemen who were doing a tough job, a job that we should thank them for doing.

Despite decades of liberal policies, blacks are more successful today as more than half could be described as middle class. Responding to this success and the accompanying diminution of overt racism, liberals keep racism alive and vital by promoting a pseudo-science they call micro-aggression theory. By this means liberals place their opponents under a microscope to find traces of racism. This keep their cadres mobilized well beyond the real crisis they created and this manifests in the form of the informal tyranny of political correctness. This weapon didn’t work against Donald Trump who knocked the political correct hand grenade out of their hands, yet they now appear to be doubling down.

This form of hysteria, this liberal promulgation of racism at any cost, is the main reason why Hillary Clinton lost and Barack Obama was repudiated. With the election of Donald Trump, with the collapse of political correctness, with Trump’s stated policy of putting the interests of all Americans first, we as a people might actually begin to move closer to a genuinely post-racial age.

Liberals take on Trump

Liberals never miss an opportunity to take a cheap shot at Donald Trump’s character flaws yet is there any real doubt that if Trump were a liberal Democrat all that stuff would have been either explained away or swept under the rug a la Bill Clinton? Suddenly these lifelong doyens of the sexual revolution need smelling salts when exposed to a hint of sexual impropriety.  How ironic! Where is Moveon.org? If Trump were on their side, we would never hear the end of the chatter about vast right-wing conspiracies and the smear of anyone who dared disagree.

Since they are unable to take Trump down with recounts, death threats against electors, violent demonstrations and dark conspiracy theories about the Kremlin, they are descending into downright nastiness. They have become completely unhinged. The petty tyrants are now threatening to boycott entertainers who might perform at the inauguration. They harass Ivanka Trump while she boards JetBlue at JFK, in front of her children. They create Trump free zones on campuses.

Their latest line of attack is that Trump is appointing too many rich people to his cabinet. Putting aside the fact that Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry inherited his billion-dollar estate from his second wife’s first husbands trust fund, what do they expect? Should Trump appoint poor people? What they really fear is that Trump is appointing accomplished people who know how to get things done. Indeed, this is the only thing they’ve been right about so far. 

Micro-aggression crackpot theory

Micro-aggression goes mainstream as Colleges set up “safe spaces” to protect students from “trigger words” like “President-elect Donald Trump”. Boston Public Schools offers therapy to students trying to “process” the election. Tufts University offers post-election playdough and arts and crafts to their traumatized students. While families flee Aleppo as ISIS advances, well-heeled liberals ask Canada for “refugee status.” This must mean that our society has progressed. Now leftists need to take out a microscope to find racism.

The crackpot term Micro-Aggression was first used by Harvard Professor Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to accurately describe the subtle insults he experienced as a black man. Since then Micro-Aggression has blossomed into its own crack-pot pseudo-science as practitioners launch a proverbial anal probe of anyone who dares to not goose-step to the drum-beat of the authoritarian left. In this topsy-turvy subjective tyranny “Israel” becomes a trigger word and a burka becomes a symbol of feminist empowerment.

One of the reasons why Trump won is because he shattered this tyranny. You could say that he broke the glass ceiling. While Trump might have at times strayed too far in the other direction, he nevertheless made it possible for the rest of us to come out from the cold and stop cowering in our boots in the face of ugly and hateful smears and assaults. All Americans, whether they realize it or not, owe him a debt of gratitude. Maybe now we can finally begin to approach the real causes of racism and inequities in our society which would be decades of failed leftist policies.

Now that Trump has won, the left has been reduced to sending death threats to electors and harassing entertainers who might dare to perform at Trump’s inauguration. While Islamic terrorists drive trucks into crowds of Christmas shoppers they fight for Trump free zones. While drug gangs as brutal as Isis roam the inner cities, they rail against the word “Christmas.” They don’t want to admit that Trump has reminded us of the potential of being an individual and the virtues and blessings of being an American.  

Election 2016: Did the Democrats cheat in California?

Hillary Clinton won California by a lopsided 4.3 million votes over Donald Trump and at 61.5% she won 1.5% more votes than Obama did in 2012.  Trump responded with the charge that the “millions of people who voted illegally” had cost him the popular vote as Clinton’s popular margin now stands at 2.8 million more votes than Trump. The clear majority of Clinton’s popular vote emanated out of urban centers in California.

Did the Democrats cheat in California?

The online voter registration form on the website of the California Secretary of State appears to be based upon an honor system by which the site asks the applicant their citizen status and the applicant is expected to answer honestly. Driver license identification numbers, street addresses and phone numbers are optional. Essentially no proof is required to indicate citizenship other than the applicant simply checking off a box declaring citizenship under penalty of perjury.

There is no evidence to suggest that California has seriously investigated voter fraud and this might be tacitly understood by those who might be inclined to register illegally. In fact, with virtually no online requirements for identification, anyone could theoretically register to vote in California online under any name or under multiple names. The Public Policy Institute indicates that approximately 2.67 million illegal aliens resided in California in 2013 and evidence indicates an increase since then. The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders depended on non-citizen volunteers to conduct voter registration drives to pitch support amongst Hispanics with claims that Trump would engage in mass deportations.

While there is no hard evidence of a conspiracy to commit fraud by illegally registering non-citizens to vote in California, the registrations emanating from the California Secretary of State’s website call out for an investigation and for reform. Democrats have already used the 2.8 popular vote margin held by Hillary Clinton as a talking point to attempt to delegitimize the election. Many are arguing that California, due to this considerable vote margin, therefore has the right to cancel out the elections of the majority of states that voted for Donald Trump and to thus disenfranchise the voters in those states. Before countering that fallacious argument, an honest count of the vote would be in order in California.