Yesterday I heard something which would have been shocking
had it happened a few years earlier, but when you consider the
tenor of the times it simply makes one mutter to oneself
"That figures".
While listening to Jay Weber, one of the wonderful conservative
voices on Milwaukee radio, I heard him announce the news that
legal scholar and civil rights specialist from Harvard University,
Professor Alan Dershowitz has publicly broken with the Democrat
Party after many years as a stalwart member. A political liberal,
Dershowitz never let his politics influence his understanding of
and application of the rule of law. He also never looked down his
nose at people with whom he disagreed, i.e. conservatives. The
professor also was a friend and guest of William F. Buckley Jr.
on the latter's TV show "Firing Line"; your admiring Peasant had
seen them together on Buckley's show several times and they've
always been cordial to each other. Professor Dershowitz is one
of the few legal scholars of his views that I have any respect for,
and I have plenty for this gentleman, who deserves better than he
has gotten from his political brethren; they had slammed him as a
Benedict Arnold for standing up for former President Trump
when the Dems had brought him up on 34 charges, all groundless
and politically motivated, to keep him from becoming president
again and to imprison him. Never mind what and who We the People
may want!
Professor Dershowitz had left the Democrats and become an
independent, although he still maintains his liberalism. He gave
as his reason his increasing disgust and appalment with his now-
former party becoming increasingly "anti-Zionist", as he stated
it. The final straw came when the Dems gave legitimacy to
anti-Israel speakers and anti-Israel protesters outside of their
national convention in Chicago in July, according to Dershowitz.
"It was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention
I've experienced ... I was disgusted at the Democratic National
Convention. Absolutely disgusted."
It also didn't help things between Professor Dershowitz and
the Dems when Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris did not
attend when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed
a joint session of Congress. The event was also given a miss by
Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Sanders is apparently
more devout about his socialist politics than he is with his Jewish
faith and heritage. And then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Netanyahu's
speech before Congress "inappropriate" (?!). These lefties and many
more blame Israel for what they believe led to the invasion of their
country by Hamas and their Iranian allies, and castigate Israel for
doing anything to defend itself. Today is 9-11; do they also blame
the Jews in their homeland as well as here in the United States
for the attacks we sustained on this day twenty-three years ago?
The final insult in Alan Dershowitz' book was that "they had more
anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist people who were speaking ... and by giving
them platforms, what it says is that when AOC does call Israel a
genocidal country and rails against it, she now has the imprimatur
of the Democratic Party," according to Professor Dershowitz.
All of this has led Professor Dershowitz to conclude that all this, along
with the pro-Palestinian protesters yelling for Israel's destruction,
"is not my party". According to Jay Weber, many more American Jews
are coming to the same conclusion, and they're going to say it with
votes on November 5.
And The Peasant says "Bravo!". The Democrat Party has become even
more racist than it was in the 19th century when they kept black people
under the thumb of the law by Supreme Court rulings giving the OK to
racial segregation, i.e. Plessy vs. Ferguson, as well as various federal,
state and local laws calling for same. It's simply that the new target of
their racial opprobrium happens to be the Jews, both those in Israel
and here in the United States. The Democrats need to do one of
two things: either sweep clean their ranks of extremists that
promulgate their poisonous politics, or to be so kind and truthful as to
cease to call themselves the Democratic Party, for they no longer
support nor promote democracy; they should thus rename their party,
giving it a name which is consistent with its present values and
objectives. Dems: May your helpful Peasant suggest
"the Totalitarian Party"?
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