Galindo still got around 40% of the vote. That is what the problem is. She may have lost by 20 points, but the percentage that voted for her is not small.
This is precisely the point. I doubt of these 40% all were virulent antisemites. More likely only a small percentage. The rest, poorly informed or worse uninformed thoughtless idiots. Many with TDS. Seventy five MILLION Americans voted for Kamala Harris. For me that’s very hard to completely understand. I realize for many, maybe a majority of those voters they had TDS and were voting against Trump. But just listening to karmela talk for a few minutes, listen to her word salad and policies she supported and you just stop and think “what is wrong with these people”? Like 2024, Momsmoney, etc they will keep doing this. That’s the real “threat to democracy”, stupid, uninformed, mentally ill TDS, suicidal empathic female voters, or “I just vote for anyone with a D after the name.
Great info in this post, Batya 👍 I’m not sure your conclusion is entirely true, however, as Zohran the Moron is a true antisemite and he is now mayor of NYC, ironically the home of a large percentage of US Jews. Possibly he will get further exposure as a Jew hater and be flushed from office?? 🤷♂️
I think the biggest difference between Henry Ford's day and today is the pervasive proliferation of social media. It seems that the word of bigotry and hatred runs through the people (young people, in particular) faster than our natural American instinct towards fairness and goodness. It is, however, a blessing that the voters of Galindo's district are still, in the majority, sane.
Hitler read Ford's writings and was deeply influenced by them, according to several sources. Ford is the only American praised by name in "Mein Kampf," and in 1938 the Nazi regime awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, its highest honor for foreigners. Many Jews of my parents generations would never even consider buying a Ford.
Evidently the Dearborn Independant was at least as bad as Der Steurmer (whose slogan was:the Jews are the source of all our misery). AOC's comment that Republicans funded Galindo is as despicable (to me) as everything that Galindo said. This shows that the Democrats could not even call out and denounce the raging anti-Semitism without spreading another lie.
Amen! It's not just being a full on antisemite. You can't espouse overt hateful bigotry against any group and be welcomed in polite society or our mainstream politics. Even in party primaries, it's incredibly rare for somebody to win if they fully drop the mask and the dogwhistle and go full open bigot.
This hate is a violation of our universal moral TABOOS and the vast majority of Americans, outside of the most radical and rabid hyper-partisans, abhor and reject it.
Unfortunately we're seeing this hate normalize on the margins and punch above its weight class, though it's mostly because of a Collective Illusion that makes it seem more tolerated than it actually is. We must keep exposing that only a tiny fringe of people actually hold these eliminationist, taboo views, and only a slightly larger fringe finds them socially acceptable. And we must reimpose a "moral guilt by association", so politicians and pundits can't carefully craft their words while openly mainstreaming and laundering the explicit bigotry espoused by their political allies.
If we can collectively and vocally reject and ostracize this hate, and everyone who espouses and sanitizes it, as we did to marginalize and defeat the KKK, we will #MakeTaboosTabooAgain.
“You can't espouse overt hateful bigotry against any group and be welcomed in polite society or our mainstream politics. “
Oh sure you can as long as that hatred is against white heterosexual men; the media/dems will applaud loudly. The mis-named “diversity” movement is simply a facade for hatred & discrimination against whites.
Indeed, for 20+ years we've become increasingly permissive of "reverse racism" towards anybody deemed an "oppressor". This is something we must start unwinding. But I would argue that the truly overt, hateful, eliminationist bigotry we're seeing espoused today, new since 10/7, is at a different level of egregiousness and something we MUST not allow to become normalized.
My project 'Holding the Line' (elevin11.substack.com) is specifically focused on getting this most extreme hatred ostracized out of polite society and our mainstream politics. If we can achieve that, we'll have a better chance of eliminating the subtler, sanitized bigotry too, but even if don't get that far, we'll at least save humanity by preventing the most vile annihilationist hatred from entering the mainstream.
From where I’m sitting the advent of the “woke” era allowed the full blown anti-Semitism we’re seeing now. The majority of Jews are white - there you go. It’s thinly veiled & couched as “anti-Zionism” but it’s just simply rank Julius Streicher-era anti-Semitism.
Ford was a raving anti-Semite and a Hitler fan before WWII. Once the war started, old man Ford allowed himself to be sidelined by his son and other Ford executives for the sake of gaining wartime contracts from the government. By then, he knew that praising Hitler and condemning Jews was a losing proposition. His son eventually got Ford to renounce his antisemitism. By the end of the war, it was plain he was wrong about Hitler and about Jewish “control.” Shortly after the war, Edsel was showing newly released concentration camp footage at the company. We don’t know how voluntarily Henry came to see it, but when he did, he literally had a stroke. He supposedly never uttered an antisemitic remark again, even in private.
I’m flabbergasted that anyone who openly espouses such harsh actions against Jews would think they can win an election without providing any justification for their anti semitism. I’m Christian.
Got this from Google: "...national American Jewish Committee studies show that roughly 16% to 20% of the U.S. general public harbors deep-seated, multiple antisemitic prejudices..." Wow. Nobody I know personally has ever expressed such sentiments within my earshot. I find this hard to believe. Until I read that, I would have assumed it was just a small (guessing 5%?) noisy faction no one takes seriously. What the heck, people? Our kids aren't born thinking like this. What happened?
Good. Antisemitism has no place in American politics. I'm even pleased that other Dems denounced it. I will always have my doubts as to their sincerity, but at least they made somewhat public statements about the matter.
Moreover, it sounds like her campaign was running on Trump hate and envy of the successful. The current crop of leftists still haven't gotten the revelation that you have to offer something more than dislike.
Galindo still got around 40% of the vote. That is what the problem is. She may have lost by 20 points, but the percentage that voted for her is not small.
It shows what indoctrination did.
This is precisely the point. I doubt of these 40% all were virulent antisemites. More likely only a small percentage. The rest, poorly informed or worse uninformed thoughtless idiots. Many with TDS. Seventy five MILLION Americans voted for Kamala Harris. For me that’s very hard to completely understand. I realize for many, maybe a majority of those voters they had TDS and were voting against Trump. But just listening to karmela talk for a few minutes, listen to her word salad and policies she supported and you just stop and think “what is wrong with these people”? Like 2024, Momsmoney, etc they will keep doing this. That’s the real “threat to democracy”, stupid, uninformed, mentally ill TDS, suicidal empathic female voters, or “I just vote for anyone with a D after the name.
Great info in this post, Batya 👍 I’m not sure your conclusion is entirely true, however, as Zohran the Moron is a true antisemite and he is now mayor of NYC, ironically the home of a large percentage of US Jews. Possibly he will get further exposure as a Jew hater and be flushed from office?? 🤷♂️
I think the biggest difference between Henry Ford's day and today is the pervasive proliferation of social media. It seems that the word of bigotry and hatred runs through the people (young people, in particular) faster than our natural American instinct towards fairness and goodness. It is, however, a blessing that the voters of Galindo's district are still, in the majority, sane.
Hitler read Ford's writings and was deeply influenced by them, according to several sources. Ford is the only American praised by name in "Mein Kampf," and in 1938 the Nazi regime awarded him the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, its highest honor for foreigners. Many Jews of my parents generations would never even consider buying a Ford.
I wouldn’t buy one today.
Evidently the Dearborn Independant was at least as bad as Der Steurmer (whose slogan was:the Jews are the source of all our misery). AOC's comment that Republicans funded Galindo is as despicable (to me) as everything that Galindo said. This shows that the Democrats could not even call out and denounce the raging anti-Semitism without spreading another lie.
Amen! It's not just being a full on antisemite. You can't espouse overt hateful bigotry against any group and be welcomed in polite society or our mainstream politics. Even in party primaries, it's incredibly rare for somebody to win if they fully drop the mask and the dogwhistle and go full open bigot.
This hate is a violation of our universal moral TABOOS and the vast majority of Americans, outside of the most radical and rabid hyper-partisans, abhor and reject it.
Unfortunately we're seeing this hate normalize on the margins and punch above its weight class, though it's mostly because of a Collective Illusion that makes it seem more tolerated than it actually is. We must keep exposing that only a tiny fringe of people actually hold these eliminationist, taboo views, and only a slightly larger fringe finds them socially acceptable. And we must reimpose a "moral guilt by association", so politicians and pundits can't carefully craft their words while openly mainstreaming and laundering the explicit bigotry espoused by their political allies.
If we can collectively and vocally reject and ostracize this hate, and everyone who espouses and sanitizes it, as we did to marginalize and defeat the KKK, we will #MakeTaboosTabooAgain.
“You can't espouse overt hateful bigotry against any group and be welcomed in polite society or our mainstream politics. “
Oh sure you can as long as that hatred is against white heterosexual men; the media/dems will applaud loudly. The mis-named “diversity” movement is simply a facade for hatred & discrimination against whites.
Indeed, for 20+ years we've become increasingly permissive of "reverse racism" towards anybody deemed an "oppressor". This is something we must start unwinding. But I would argue that the truly overt, hateful, eliminationist bigotry we're seeing espoused today, new since 10/7, is at a different level of egregiousness and something we MUST not allow to become normalized.
My project 'Holding the Line' (elevin11.substack.com) is specifically focused on getting this most extreme hatred ostracized out of polite society and our mainstream politics. If we can achieve that, we'll have a better chance of eliminating the subtler, sanitized bigotry too, but even if don't get that far, we'll at least save humanity by preventing the most vile annihilationist hatred from entering the mainstream.
From where I’m sitting the advent of the “woke” era allowed the full blown anti-Semitism we’re seeing now. The majority of Jews are white - there you go. It’s thinly veiled & couched as “anti-Zionism” but it’s just simply rank Julius Streicher-era anti-Semitism.
I totally agree. As I see it, there were 2 major systemic drivers that got us here, and both need to be unwound with universal, principled approach:
The first is the "oppressor vs oppressed" frameworks that built the permission structures for reverse racism.
The second is the hyper-partisanship/tribalism that led many people and institutions to not "police their own".
I explore these (and much more) in my Guide to Moral Taboos, in case you're interested: https://elevin11.substack.com/p/lawful-but-awful-a-guide-to-moral
It doesn't work in Texas. In NYC, Chicago, Maine and CA it does
Ford was a raving anti-Semite and a Hitler fan before WWII. Once the war started, old man Ford allowed himself to be sidelined by his son and other Ford executives for the sake of gaining wartime contracts from the government. By then, he knew that praising Hitler and condemning Jews was a losing proposition. His son eventually got Ford to renounce his antisemitism. By the end of the war, it was plain he was wrong about Hitler and about Jewish “control.” Shortly after the war, Edsel was showing newly released concentration camp footage at the company. We don’t know how voluntarily Henry came to see it, but when he did, he literally had a stroke. He supposedly never uttered an antisemitic remark again, even in private.
Hope she took a few Islamists home with her to console herself 😉
Thank God she lost.
I’m flabbergasted that anyone who openly espouses such harsh actions against Jews would think they can win an election without providing any justification for their anti semitism. I’m Christian.
Got this from Google: "...national American Jewish Committee studies show that roughly 16% to 20% of the U.S. general public harbors deep-seated, multiple antisemitic prejudices..." Wow. Nobody I know personally has ever expressed such sentiments within my earshot. I find this hard to believe. Until I read that, I would have assumed it was just a small (guessing 5%?) noisy faction no one takes seriously. What the heck, people? Our kids aren't born thinking like this. What happened?
Public School Teachers, at the behest of their Teachers’ Unions, namely Randi Weingarten.
The Radicals of the 60's, has infiltrated not just politics, but every facet of the Public Square of our Society, including many pulpits as well.
Regardless she still represents the future of the Democrat party.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Maybe she’ll find her way back to her witches bottle and never come out again!
Good. Antisemitism has no place in American politics. I'm even pleased that other Dems denounced it. I will always have my doubts as to their sincerity, but at least they made somewhat public statements about the matter.
Moreover, it sounds like her campaign was running on Trump hate and envy of the successful. The current crop of leftists still haven't gotten the revelation that you have to offer something more than dislike.