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| Jeanne Safer, PhD, Psycnologist, author |
Hope for Amicablity Between
the Left and the Right?
the Left and the Right?
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| Jeanne Safer's husbamd for 38 years! |
I happened to see Jeanne Safer (Mrs. Richard Brookhiser) on C-Span’s Book TV early yesterday morning, and was delighted to learn she has just come out with a new book she calls
I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics.
It immediately occurred to me that it might be good if those who are distinctly at odds regarding their political and philosophical convictions might benefit from taking good close look at Jeanne Safer’s book.
Apparently Jeanne Safer, a decidedly Plain Jane, a Jew, a Psychotherapist and an ardent Feminist, which means, of course, that she is a leftist, gets along very well with her famous Republican, moderately conservative husband, Richard Brookhiser who is a senior editor of the National Review.
A most interesting couple married since 1980! You might want to read WIKI’s article on Brookhiser as well as his wife’s book:
Our nation needs more of this.
ReplyDeleteIndeed we do, Silver. Unfortunately, too many fall madly in love with their pet hates, and just CAN'T seem to let go, even though it may be killing them.
DeleteRAGE ADDICTION is a serious mental disorder that has dire consequences yes for the entire nation.
We on the Right like to attribute the irrational spite and malice entirely to the Left, but sadly I see almost as much on "our' side as "theirs," although I do honestly believe "THEY" started it.
If the country hadn't largely abandoned Jesus, as it has done, we might not be in such a terrible pickle today –– not that any Christian's faith has ever reached perfection.
Sunrise, Surprise, Isn’t I shocking that the Obama’s brand spanking new Multi Million Dollar Mansion is located on ONE THOUSAND feet, (less than one Block) from the Islamic Center of Washington one of the largest Mosques in the Western Hemisphere.
ReplyDeleteWhile posters on the Demokratik Underground Message Board, and blogs are of no doubt the fringe far left, the Demokrat Party listens to them and other lunatic leftist sites. The loons have a say in our country and cry they are oppressed, when by their own words they wish to oppress others. And just take a look at some of the blogs by the Demokrats that post right here on this blog, and others like it such as Lisa's . These blogs are FULL of hatred posts and pictures of republicans, ah, but that’s fine, just don’t do the same to them because if you do then YOU are the loony tune, then YOU are the “troll”
ReplyDeleteThis is the state of our country today after the well-planned and orchestrated Dictatorial Socialist Demokratik Politburo seizure of the country by demonizing and targeting Republicans with such hate filled rhetoric since they lost power when Obama was elected . Spineless Republicans sat back and made excuses and even joined in at times, trying to out liberal these liberals instead of standing up for America.
This is what we have come to. We (the conservatives) have bent over backwards so much and so often to gain the approval of these loons that we now feel guilty when they complain about it. But it’s the so-called “tolerant left” and the “compassionate left” that are the most intolerant of all people today and must be exposed and opposed every step of the way. So don’t fall into their trap. They don’t have any love for us. Although they may post these love notes to you, they still stab you in the back on their own blogs. Look at them, read them, if you don’t believe me.
The visible and vocal left are never going to accept any part of the patriotic, sensible, sane right.
ReplyDeleteNot gonna happen. If this person is being honest, she's one on several or more million.
Probably, but that doesn't we shouldn't try to be friendly with them, Kid.
DeleteThough it's not spelled out in these terms, the basis of the Christian Ethos is that OUR behavior must try very hard at all times to be BETTER than that of our antagonists.
That may be a hard master to serve, but it's the ONLY way I can think of that could help break the current 'logjam" that's depriving us of decency and productivity right now.
We can't GIVE IN to them, of course, but we MIGHT at least have a CHANCE of helping to neutralize their obsessive-compulsive Death Grip on bitter enmity, if we stop echoing it.
"DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN" is a pretty good motto.
"Be Not Overcome by Evil, but Overcome Evil with Good" is a better one.
I'll never be friendly with enemies of America, My Country, the Greatest country in the world.
DeleteI know EXACTLY how you feel, Kid, and in many ways I feel the same, but I also know that cherishing enmity does NO ONE any good –– least of all the one who despises.
DeleteWe should never forget The Golden Rule. It applies in EVERY situation:
DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.
Matthew 5: 3-12 (KJV)
AN INTERESTING VARIATION on TRADITIONAL THiNKING. NOT SURE I AGREE, but IT'S WORTH a LOOK
ReplyDeleteThe American Spectator
Special Report
Custer Died for Our Virtues
by H. W. CROCKER, III
August 13, 2018, 12:05 am
Why the Left Doesn’t Like People Like Him.
When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, you sometime saw a bumper sticker that read “Custer Died for Your Sins.”
For the Left, figures like Custer represented an America of racism, ignorance, violence, and imperialism, portrayed on the silver screen in movies like Little Big Man, and playing itself out in real life in the Vietnam War.
But the reality of Custer is far different. He represents, in many ways, what used to be old-fashioned American virtues, perhaps summed up in that singularly old-fashioned word “pluck.”
He famously graduated last in his class, ending his West Point career court-martialed for failing to break-up — indeed for refereeing — a fight between two cadets, so that, in his words,“I was in the guard house when my class graduated.”
He did graduate, however ... — straight to the front in the Civil War, where his bravery, daring, and initiative caught the eye of General George McClellan. Custer was courageous, a good scout (even taking on the hazardous duty of going up in balloons for aerial reconnaissance), and took pride in never confessing to exhaustion or hunger.
McClellan said that “in these days Custer was simply a reckless, gallant boy, undeterred by fatigue, unconscious of fear; but his head was always clear in danger and he always brought me clear and intelligible reports of what he saw when under the heaviest fire. I became much attached to him.”
Unlike his patron, though, Custer was all for battle. As a cavalry officer he swiftly became the Union’s “Boy General,” gaining his first star at the age of twenty-three. ... [He was] quite unafraid to charge the enemy.
It was an enemy that he respected and even liked. Many of best friends at West Point had been Southerners. ... [W]hile he confessed himself duty-bound to fight for the Union, he felt no bitterness toward his Southern comrades — and his warm feelings were returned. ...
Custer was always controversial — fame invites criticism — but he represented an optimistic, dynamic America that retained its sense of manifest destiny even after a catastrophic ... Civil War.
He was a man of keen loyalties — not just to the Union, but to his family ... And while Custer had waged total war against both Confederates and Indians, he was as sympathetic to the native tribes as he had been to Southerners, saying once, “If I were an Indian, I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhered to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the blessed benefits of civilization, with its vices thrown in …”
Alas, today, Americans are not so broadminded. All is politicized — and it’s not just Confederate statues that are pulled from their plinths. Just about every American hero is liable to fall foul of some aspect of the Left’s Ministry of Truth. ...
As America rips up her mystic chords of memory, severs them, and throws them on a funeral pyre, we can’t just retire to our dens, watch reruns of Gunsmoke, and remember the good old days (though we should do that occasionally with our children — the best defense against lies about the past is to revisit the past).
We need to build up a counter-narrative to the Left’s iconoclasm. We can talk till we’re blue in the face about the culture war, but until we start displacing the hectoring and [badgering] of the Left with [positive truths and encouraging, inspiring rhetoric], we will always lose. ...
THE GREAT GIFT of HOLY WRIT: WHEN STUDYNG THIS YOU MIGHT WANT TO ASK YOURSELF, "WHAT IS ZION?"
ReplyDeleteI will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. ... The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men.
... Psalm 9 - KJV
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ReplyDeleteWe do NOT accept derogatory remarks about other bloggers –– even those whose vile opinions and spiteful, uncalled for rhetoric we frankly despise.
DeletePlease at least TRY to post something specificlly reflective of the CONTENT and SPIRIT of the POSTS we publish.
The blogosphere is frankly DROWNING in hateful opinions, which makes spending time on the blogs feel iike swimming in a CESSPIT, or a swimming pool lilled to overflowing with HOT VOMIT.
WE do not want to ADD to any of that, because responding in kind to Insolence, Hatred, Malice, and Irrational Spite only AUGMENTS it, and causes it to PROLIFERATE.