Reprinted from FreeThinke's Blog (June, 2012)

ENEMETICS 

“The artificial codes of conduct and essentially superficial modes of personal expression our various cultures impose on the human spirit are very powerful, because we fear ostracism and isolation from our own kind more than we love freedom.”

After reading a couple of letters from a defender of fascism I've coined a term –– ENEMETICS. A mercifully-short, recently published article by ultra-liberal Chris Hedges, unfortunately not available to us here, is a virtual Rorschach image of the recently conventionalized ravings of the extreme right wing against the left –– so much so it is almost comical in its undisciplined use of hateful hyperbole. Ironically, however, passages from that article hit upon home truths that, I believe, apply to human relations at all levels and from every angle.

ENEMETICS: the rabid, seething and overt expression of a fundamental human craving to loathe and despise SOMETHING in order to give oneself a sense of purpose and identity.  As a species, we appear to be virtually addicted to conflict.

It's the very thing that has held ancient tribal cultures together and empowered them for countless centuries. However, it is hardly peculiar to ancient peoples. Where would anyone be without enemies? Who would they be without enemies to define them? Everyone should ask that of himself -- including thee and me.

Marxism, Fascism, Theocracy –– authoritarianism of any and all kinds –– inevitably lead to TOTALITARIANISM. So, oddly enough, does Anarchism.

"Revolutions" inevitably wind up supplanting one form of tyranny and oppression with another. That's a cliché. 

Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People

Great sage that I am I figured out for myself a long time ago that the human lust to dominate –– exert power and control over others one personally deems inferior or (more kindly) "in need of guidance" –– is the truest enemy of mankind. Certain hyper-aggressive, hubristic individuals spearhead movements, sway masses, develop poisonous cults, start wars, et al. in order to prove to themselves they count for something. That too is a cliché. 

Superstition, poisonous gossip, rabble-rousing, internecine warfare in organizations –– all of it fueled by an illusory pursuit of some kind of  "Truth" or "Justice" –– usually a counterfeit thereof –– are responsible for most of the perplexity, violence, agony, and unnecessary deaths in history.

Aggression, suppression, oppression, exploitation, enslavement –– all bad no matter who may be wielding the Big Stick. As Pogo said back in the early nineteen-fifties:

"We have met the enemy, and he is US."

SO, the moment ANY movement or philosophy becomes aggressive and domineering, it automatically becomes pernicious. Jesus Christ has been ill served by "His" church ever since it became organized, worldly, acquisitive, politically powerful and authoritarian.

While I suppose I am an elitist, and fancy the trappings (at the very least) of wealth, refinement and high culture –– as originally SPONSORED by authoritarian Christianity, Royalty, and Aristocracy and even some pretentious industrialists (i.e. certain so-called Robber Barons of The Gilded Age) –– all of whom left magnificent architectural monuments –– churches and cathedrals, hospitals, university quadrangles, libraries, museums, opera houses, concert halls, railroad stations, city halls, public parks, restored antique villages of historic importance, and many other achievements in their wake –– achievements no savage or peasant society would devise or value –– I cannot sympathize with "fascism," any more than I can tolerate Marxian proletarianism. 

Symbolic Surrogates for Human Hatred

I've met too many people up close and personal from supposedly disparate and conflicting walks of life, who act like long lost brothers when free from the constraints and pretenses of ordinary social, professional and business society, not to realize that at root we'd rather love and enjoy one another than anything else. 

The artificial codes of conduct and essentially superficial modes of personal expression our various cultures impose on the human spirit are very powerful, because we fear ostracism and isolation from our kind more than we love freedom.

Freedom scares the bleeding tar out of most people, ergo they conform. But deep down, I'm pretty sure most of us would rather fuck than fight –– at least I hope so.

~ FreeThinke 

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__ To a Pencil-Necked Prick ___

Foul, redolent of Insincerity ––
Unctuous fabricator of Tall Tales ––
Coldly, calculating smothering Verity ––
Killing Honesty, –– he’s hard as nails.  

A calm and mellow baritone belies
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A bastard eager to destroy with Lies ––
Mild mannered Malice dished up cold. 

Smug with balding, pop-eyed, purse-lipped head
Creepily he stares without a smile ––
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A RABBI STRONGLY DENOUNCES 

AT LEAST 70% of AMERICAN JEWRY

Many American Jews Need to Atone for Their Sins  Against President Donald  J. Trump

American Thinker

October 6, 2019

by Rabbi Aryeh Spero

America has seen many presidents who have been good to Israel and the Jewish people.  None has been better than Donald Trump.  Beyond doubt, he has done unmatched and extraordinarily good things for Israel, and has publicly spoken against anti-Semitism in the United Nations and repeatedly during his State of the Union addresses.  

The whole world has seen the priority Mr. Trump bestows on Israel and safety for Jews.  Additionally, he and his father were tremendous friends and benefactors to Jews and Israel, much prior to his entering politics.  Yet the establishment Jewish organizations and temples have too often falsely maligned him, and liberal American Jewry (about 70% of American Jewry) have been his most vocal critics.

Actually, they are in the forefront against him, as often seen on television, in articles, and in speeches from non-orthodox rabbis on the pulpit.  Even among regular liberal Jews, the railing against Mr. Trump is incessant, hysterical, mean, and full of hate.  All of this constitutes gross, unprecedented ingratitude.  Jewish Tradition frowns on ingratitude, indeed calls it a sin.

Many in the secular Jewish community do not consider their attitude ungrateful inasmuch as support for Israel is no longer important to them, and they seem undaunted when anti-Semitism comes from the political Left (their home), or from social justice warriors and certain "minorities."  What they consider good for Jews most often has nothing to do with Jewish needs at all, but rather a universalist agenda at odds with Jewish survival.  

In their zeal to destroy and remove Mr. Trump from the presidency, they have gone beyond ingratitude to downright lying about him, scheming against him, and throwing normal fairness and decency out the window.

Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement, falls this week.  One of the most prominent prayers is "for the sins we have committed," a list of grievous sins that may apply to the penitent, thereby requiring atonement.  Thus, now may be the best and most appropriate time to review the sins many within the Jewish community continue to wage against President Trump.

Perhaps they should begin some reflection and introspection regarding their three years of ferocious attacks and lies against a man who loves Israel and America and longs for Jewish individuals and children to be safe from terrorism.  No doubt, there are as well other sins against innocent people that should be pondered, including sins even against Israel and Jewish peoplehood.

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Adam Schiff: For the sin of bearing false witness, excessive lying, deceit, and tale-bearing against President Trump.

Chuck Schumer: For the sin of raging ambition, forked tongue, and "standing idly by while the blood of your brothers" is spilt in Brooklyn and while Israel remains threatened by an Obama Iran deal you refused to fight against.

Jerrold Nadler: For the sin of revenge, deceit, and falsehood against President Trump.

Eliot Engel: For the sin of allowing an enemy of your people, Ilhan Omar, to remain seated and powerful on your House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Richard Blumenthal: For the sin of sky-high arrogance, bullying, and using the law for injustice, and the sin of seeking to defame and destroy Brett Kavanaugh, an innocent man.

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the ADL: For the sin of defamation, and deliberately and repeatedly lying about President Trump, strongly implying to the world the canard that Mr. Trump is an anti-Semite, encourages anti-Semitism, and is sympathetic to Nazis.  In other words, the sin of maliciousness.  For the sin of ignoring the real anti-Semitism against the Jewish people coming from Mr. Greenblatt's allies on the political Left.  It is the sin of being derelict in your duty to the Jewish people and the sin of leading people astray.

Dianne Feinstein: For the sin of deceit and lying in trying to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, and the sin of trying to humiliate Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu publicly,

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Nita Lowey: For the sin of remaining silent while Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez malign Israel and the Jewish people.

Jan Schakowsky, John Yarmuth, and Steve Cohen: For the sin of publicly humiliating the prime minister of Israel and spreading falsehoods about Mr. Trump, Republicans, and Evangelical Christians.

Bernie Sanders: For the sin of trying to impoverish and take away liberty from the American people in behalf of an imposed socialism/communism.  And the sin of constant anger and economic hypocrisy.  For the sin of being the first candidate for president to demonize Israel formally, hold high the banner of those wishing to destroy Israeli Jews, and make "kosher" anti-Israel bias.  After all, it must be okay if a Jew like Bernie makes it part of his platform.  For the sin of distorting history.

Steve Cohen, again: For the sin, as well as those above, of soiling the image of Jewish people by eating fried chicken like a slovenly pig in front of the House of Representatives and the country.

America's Reform Rabbis: For the sin of making the criticism of Israel your #1 priority and elevating Islamic terrorists and their narrative against Israel.  The sin of misrepresenting Judaism as Marxism and hedonism.  The sin of hating Donald Trump in your hearts and on your sleeves.  For the sin of falsehoods and maliciousness by making statements accusing President Trump of anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi sympathies.  It's a lie. 

 For your sin of leading American Jews away from our historic and biblical beliefs and pushing Radical Socialism and Cultural Marxism.  

For the sin of looking down on America and its people, and the sin of demonizing America and most of its people as racists, mean-spirited, and anti-Semitic.  For the sin of arrogance and self-worship.

Bill Kristol and Max Boot: For the sin of vanity, excessive vanity, and hating a man in your hearts.  For the sin of selfishness, immaturity, revenge, and inability to rise above your own self-interest.  The sin of renouncing what your formerly believed if you are no longer the official spokesmen appointed to say it.  The sin of affiliating with destructive allies that but yesterday you would have denounced.

David Frum:  Strictly Frum hunger

Peter Beinart: For the sin of self-hate, distortion of Judaism, and using Judaism simply as a tool to achieve your leftist, universalist agenda.  The sin of bringing down Israel...all in the name of “Judaism."

Jennifer Rubin: The sin of hysteria, rumor-mongering, and false statements.  You have betrayed.

America's Liberal Rabbis: The sin of ascribing to yourself a moral and intellectual superiority over fellow Americans.  The sin of assuming that Americans necessarily are racist and that their love of country and nation is rooted not in love of country, but in racism.  The sin of being exclusionary in the name of inclusiveness.  The sin of being false prophets and falsifying the term "Tikkun O'lam" into massive social engineering by the "right people" and instituting trans-national socialism.

The Sulzbergers of the New York Times: The sin of whitewashing Islamic Jew-hatred, as you did 70 years ago regarding Nazi Jew-hatred.  The sin of ignoring your responsibility to honest journalism and, instead, devoting your staff and time to bringing down falsely a man who did nothing that fits your concocted and manufactured falsehoods.  The sin of lying, betrayal of trust, and the sin of hubris and arrogance.  The sin of rewriting American history in such a way that Americans will be embarrassed by our history and thus reject our founding and our system and nation.

Bob Creamer: For the sins of dirty tricks.

Ben Rhodes: For the sin of being an enemy of your people and casting aside truth for the sheer game of winning in politics.

Jeff Zucker and Brian Stelter:  The sin of hate, lying, maliciousness, and gain.  You are destroying the country.  The sin of being the pawn and mouthpiece of Nancy Pelosi...a woman questing power and revenge.  The sin of lusting to destroy the entire Trump family.

Most Secular Atheistic, and Leftist Jews:  For the sin of hating Donald Trump in your heart and mind simply because he will not bow and cave to your universalist, trans-nationalist agenda.  You have become a "shanda."  For the sin of calling President Trump "Hitler."  For the sin of being so exclusive that you no longer care or even consider what other Americans value and hold dear, nor do you apprehend their goodness.  For the sin of thinking you are better than everybody else — in other words, self-righteousness.

Jewish Left-Wing Ttrivializers of the Holocaust: For the sin of universalizing everything Jewish so that detention centers in Arizona are just as bad as concentration camps; ICE and Homeland Security are Nazis; immigration policies are Gestapo; and President Trump, for wanting to protect the American people, is Hitler.  Shame on you!

Left-Wing Seminaries: For the sin of taking a great religion and turning it into a socialist, America-hating, hedonistic, moral relativist ideology.  For the sin of Chillul Hashem: desecrating God's name and the name of His people.

NeverTrumpers: The sins of jealousy, covetousness, ambition, and arrogance...and human small mindednness.

Hopefully, God will transform the darkness residing in their hearts, the toxin of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), and they will be cleansed and spare Mr. Trump, and the country, further abuse.  

Hopefully, some of Trump's detractors will leave the herd and join the almost 30% of American Jewry and over 70% of Israelis who enthusiastically see in President Trump a uniquely courageous force for innovation and good as well as the best hope to save Western Civilization.

AMEN!

[NOTE: Rabbi Aryeh Spero is president of Caucus for America and author of Push Back: Reclaiming our American Judeo-Christian Spirit.]

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O suns and skies and clouds of June,

 And flowers of June together,

Ye cannot rival for one hour

 October's bright blue weather.

When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
 Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And Golden Rod is dying fast,
 And lanes with grapes are fragrant;

When Gentians roll their fringes tight,
 To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
 Without a sound of warning.

When on the ground red apples lie
 In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
 Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things
 Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
 Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks,
 In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
 Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
 By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
 October's bright blue weather.

O suns and skies and flowers of June,
 Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
 October's bright blue weather.

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