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by YankeeTarheel
Yeah. I met a guy on a flight from Denver to Eugene from El Paso whose sister had been driving with her child and SAW the asshole going into the WalMart! It hits us all.
Jersey City's a ways away from here, but our township is at least 25% Jewish, with 3 synagogues (used to be four). Schools close for the Jewish holidays as well as the Christian ones because...they'd be half-empty! But after 9/11 there were always police at them for holidays, and in front of the Orthodox shul every Saturday.
Anti-Semitism is part of our lives and every Jew (except assholes like Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner) is taught that the world can turn on us at any minute, and, sooner or later, it will, no matter what you believe, or who you are, or what you've done.
My mother turned 20 the year WWII ended, just a week before Nagasaki. She had not been very religious before that--her mother was, in Mom's words "a practicing hypocrite" (her mother was an abusive crazy monster) and her father saw all religion as bullshit. But when the Allies began opening the concentration camps, Mom figured there was no way a benevolent god could have allowed this to happen and she became an avowed Atheist.
Liberal democracy, so far the best system of government for pretty much everybody, is clearly an unnatural state. Because every one that's arisen, some one has tried to bring it down, frequently successfully. From Athens and Rome, to several nations in Europe, as well as Trumpism here, few actually LIKE the idea that you can have opposing ideas and views in an operating state. Like those yahoos in that truck you saw.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."