An Open Letter to Liberals, by David Skrbina - The Unz Review ants nomm

 My Dear Friends,

It’s a hard time to be a liberal. I know, because I used to be one. Or rather, I still am one, but a true liberal, unlike the many fake liberals out there. Allow me to explain.

Long ago, as an idealistic college student, I valued my high moral principles, my faith in the vague notion of human equality, my trust in authorities, and my open-mindedness. I believed that most people in positions of power were well-intentioned, if a bit misguided, and that political and economic situations ran into trouble mostly because of bad luck or the occasional bad actor. I believed that people had to be judged as individuals, and that any assessment of entire groups constituted a sweeping generalization or a caricature that lacked merit. I believed all people and all races could live together; I believed that we owed something to the less-fortunate of society, no matter who they were. I believed that, by and large, the American system worked, and that the best would move up in society and prosper. And I believed that most everyone shared these views.

But I later found out that I was wrong on nearly every count. Years of hard thinking, research, discussion, personal experience, and observant daily life proved the deficiency of my former views; one by one, they eroded away. I found out that group characteristics are real and objective, and that they are indicative of broad social trends, even if there exist many individual exceptions. I saw systemic actions in academia, media, government, and business to promote certain values, to disparage other values, and to advance a certain worldview or mindset that benefited specific people. I realized that corruption in social institutions was far deeper and more entrenched than I dared believe.....

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....But strangely enough, both parties, who hate each other with such vehemence, are in agreement on just one special issue: Jewish and Israeli interests, which they both bend over backward to serve. Recall any presidential debate of the past few decades: all candidates and all parties are emphatic that they alone are the “true friends of Israel,” and that they alone can best tackle “the evil of anti-Semitism.” And you, the viewer, are left with choosing between a left-leaning “friend of Israel” and a right-leaning “friend of Israel.” Some choice, isn’t it?

In this way, they trap you in half the sandbox: You only see the enemy of their choosing: either “the right” or “the left.” But never “the Jewish Lobby.” That’s the half that you are missing. In fact, you are not even allowed to know that that half exists. Anyone who dares venture there is, by definition, a “far-right extremist” and “a hater”; and since both the left and the right agree on that, it seems like a unanimous decision. Clever, isn’t it?