COMMENTARY by NATALIE M. ROSEN
This is a running commentary on contemporary social, political and religious issues. From the Introduction of James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty -- Truth, Lies and Leadership" "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" Reinhold Niebuhr
Friday, November 17, 2023
NOT ANYMORE
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
The Fire of fear
If one listens to these podcasts one will learn that we have experienced similar events at different historical time periods and we navigated those choppy waters not succumbing to a take down of Democracy, though, the evil forces in our nation surely tried and are still trying very hard to do achieve that.
Again, today Fascism rears its ugly head. The troublesome Donald Trump and his many allies of evil you will see a repeat performance yet again trying hard to build up allies within the Republican Party all over our nation and, indeed, the world. If one Googles "Ultra" and after you finished its episodes then Google "Deja News" you will listen to Rachel's uncanny ability to put out the fire of fear by showing us much of what this nation finds itself now has been tried by different historical players before without losing Democracy.
As she and her producer Issac-Davy Aronson narrate "Deja News," these podcasts will give one new eyes to see that our political predicament is not new and give us the courage to do battle with its ugly forces yet again.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
I smile and I worry
When the
indictments came through against Trump with 37 counts levied against
him, when I read 3/4 of the indictment with some pages to go, when I saw
the scrupulously ironclad case Jack Smith has woven and the
incontrovertible evidence against Trump's handling of the most sensitive
top secret classified documents that were not his to take and held
helter skelter at Trump's summer place Mar a Lago, I still managed to
smile. Finally, I plaintively asked, would Teflon Don be made to answer
for his lifetime of many unethical, unconscionable grifts and acts?
What is left for we the people to do in the interim whether he is acquitted or hopefully ultimately jailed? We must ensure after the hopeful conviction of this dangerous man that we never retreat from pursuing true authoritarian fascists in our country and in other nations so that they do not live again in other forms. When this malignant era of Trumpian politics is over we must ensure it never again envelops the world as new fascists are born in Trump's image. Moral and ethical people of all races and colors must make sure Adolph Hitler's ghost does not rise again in other forms and we must ensure other concentration camps are not created yet again.
Monday, May 01, 2023
As I see it: Banking failure of First Republic
Coupled with Republican intransigence of raising the debt ceiling that could catapult the US into the thicket of economic ruin the times are worrisome. Jaime Diamond, the CEO of J.P Morgan Trust, bought out First Republic. He said the nation's banking system is solid. Should we take his word for it? As I see it, I think not.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
My Letter to Rachel Maddow and cc to Governor Maura Healtey
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Separate and, in fact, not equal--an email to Rachel Maddow
Monday, December 05, 2022
The truth of antisemitism
I have numerous thoughts regarding the proliferation of
antisemitism and hate in our nation and around the world. I have not
posted anything about the recent spate of antisemitism as it relates to
the Trump candidacy until now. Anti Jewish hate is a subject on which I
have strong opinions so much so that I wanted to carefully compose the
essence of my thoughts on it because in sum it taps into the core of my
being. I want to make an explanation of it clear and and most
importantly correct and true. Because racial hate exists on the
political right I positioned myself politically to the left.
I
once saw a film entitled "The Longest Hatred." I thought it encompassed
much about the long history of antisemitism, its reoccurring theme in
the world and, most particularly, in this country because the mantel on
which it rests is contrary to what the United States of America is all
about. I will post a link to the "Longest Hatred'' at the bottom of my
written thoughts. Full disclosure I am Jewish as were all my ancestors
who resided in Europe, Eastern Europe and in America too.
I
was first introduced to the malevolent hatred of the Jews as a young
child. I asked questions such as why do they hate us. My mother
answered by saying things like "they are jealous of us." Jealous of
what, I remember I asked? I observed it and heard accusations about it
as a young adult continuing into my adult years where I could more fully
grasp and have an understanding of the historicity of it. I was
repeatedly told the Jews killed Christ.
Antisemitism
spans centuries beginning 2000 years ago and intertwined first with the
alleged rejection of Christ, the Christian son of god, by the Jews and
his tortuous death by the Roman occupiers of Palestine. Antisemitism
runs deep within the psyche of Christians and its onslaught of hate and
ultimate slaughtering of 6 million human beings historically named the
Holocaust. How does something so huge exist perpetrated by the most
learned nation in the western world, Germany. For its evidence one need
to historically account for such a thing as the Germans, known for
their pristine record keeping kept a tally of the number of Jews killed
which jived with the philosophical underpinnings of Nazism itself.
Moreover, if one reads the German leader Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (My
Struggle) for its rationale to make the world in the
Trump has zero ethics and will use that which he thinks gives him power. He allies himself with his moronic antisemites because it is a group which he can milk for political support and does so all the time despite his own daughter's Jewish conversion, her Jewish husband and their children considered Jews by birth.
I could relate hundreds of antisemitic views including in my own life a neighbor telling me that the "Jews killed Christ" and another time a work compatriot told me she "Jewed someone down" to get a better price on something she purchased. When the Holocaust was on TV showing the horrific internment of Jews in an array of concentration camps another woman at work told me "See that's what you get for killing one of your own." By the way Jews never would use crucifixion as an instrument of death but the Romans gladly used it to show others what would befall them as they walked up a hill near the crosses as admonition if they went against Rome.
Trump induced antisemitism is currently popular and it is a part of fascistic movements all over the world. The truth that antisemitism exists cannot be denied but the content of it is and always has been saturated with lies. It must be called out for what it is man's proclivity to designate the "other" for eradication and spread those lies about them all over the world. We must call antisemitism out as lies when we hear or see it. Silence is an affirmation of it and a way to spread its ugly message far and wide.
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