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How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and Class

December 7, 2020 by Robert J. Avrech Leave a Comment

How do those on the Left determine right from wrong? Since Marx, they’ve relied on a formula based on status, skin color, and wealth. But is that the way to reach a moral conclusion? Dennis Prager uses Israel and the United States to provide an illuminating perspective on this question.

Israel Makes a Free-Market Move

June 25, 2013 by Robert J. Avrech 26 Comments

Ruth gleans wheat in the fields of Boaz, her kinsman and future husband. In the Torah, charity is a mitzvah incumbent upon the individual. In ancient Israel, the third-year tithe – reserved for Levites, sojourners, widows and orphans, was administered by the Cohanim, not civil or military authorities. The Torah's gleaning laws required the poor to gather leftover crops themselves (Deut. 24:19), which allowed them to maintain their dignity and work ethic. The Torah understood that the purpose of charity was not to create a permanent underclass. It never gives the state the authority to redistribute wealth or dole out charity since the state does not create wealth. The state only seizes the wealth of others. The socialist founders of the modern state of Israel were great Zionists, but also delusional utopians who abandoned the wisdom of the Torah in favor of (Jew-hating) Marxists. Go figure. — Ruth gleans wheat in the fields of Boaz, her kinsman and future husband. In the Torah, charity is a mitzvah incumbent upon the individual. In ancient Israel, the third-year tithe – reserved for Levites, sojourners, widows and orphans, was administered by the Cohanim, not civil or military authorities. The Torah’s gleaning laws required the poor to gather leftover crops themselves (Deut. 24:19), which allowed them to maintain their dignity and work ethic. The Torah understood that the purpose of charity was not to create a permanent underclass. It never gives the state the authority to redistribute wealth or dole out charity since the state does not create wealth. The state only seizes the wealth of others. The socialist founders of the modern state of Israel were great Zionists, but also delusional utopians who abandoned the wisdom of the Torah in favor of (Jew-hating) Marxists. Go figure.

Over the years, Seraphic Secret has made many friends through cyberspace.

One of the earliest readers and commenters at this blog was Jake Novak, an intellectually curious and honest liberal. Convinced over time by our Conservative arguments, he has evolved into a passionate and articulate spokesman for Conservative values.

Now an executive producer of the excellent Kudlow Report on CNBC, Jake has made it his business to emphasize the organic link between the free market and man’s liberty, and the tyranny that is the regulatory state.

Jake is also a deeply committed and scholarly Jew—his father is a distinguished rabbi—and a fierce defender of Zion. Though he works behind the scenes at CNBC, his intellectual prowess is a major driver of CNBC’s business reportage.

Jake has kindly given us permission to repost his latest article about the huge economic strides being made in Israel.

Child Abuse: Where Jihadists and Democrats Converge

October 30, 2012 by Robert J. Avrech 13 Comments

damned — “Village of the Damned,” 1960, role models for post-modern Democrat offspring.

Seraphic Secret is struck, but not surprised, at the way Islamists use and abuse their children in the endless war against Western civilization. Here’s a clip of a child preacher from Egyptian TV.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7amt6dfBM[/youtube]

The kid has no idea what he’s saying. He’s just repeating what he’s been taught, regurgitating hate like a robot. In a few years, he’ll strap on a suicide belt and kill dozens of innocent men, women and children.

Seraphic Secret is also struck, but not surprised, that Democrats also use and abuse their children in their jihad against Conservatives. Democrats, like Islamists, draft innocent children into their vulgar propaganda efforts. Here’s the latest child abuse in service to the cult of Barack Hussein Obama, a truly creepy Village of the Damned effort. Again, the children have little idea what the lyrics mean. But they have been indoctrinated into an ideology based on hatred of infidels, in this case, non-Democrats.

Their parents should be arrested for child abuse.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlW4lx6TTo[/youtube]

Totalitarian regimes have always enshrined policies whereby children are brainwashed into becoming true believers. The goal of tyrannies is to make obsolete family and religion by replacing these foundations of a civil society with a single political ideology, under the rule of one man, who is invariably deified.