I’ve worked in the District of Columbia since 1994. I first applied for a position with the Library of Congress in 1980. I’ve loved the concept of the District of Columbia since 1969. DC is supposed to be an island adverse to politics, an ideological oasis, a place where people of different opinions can congregate to discuss the best way forward for the republic. Instead, it is a swamp where ideological differences escalate into polarization and division.
It is a place where dreams devolve - nightmares.
Two amazing young people working with the Israeli embassy were murdered in cold blood last night. Why? They were focused on peace. Tears filled my eyes multiple times today thinking of the incomparable hate and antisemitism that resulted in these murders.
I grew up in the Midwest, flyover country that is disdained by the alleged elites. People in flyover country are patriots, love America, believe in the Constitution, the idea that there are no handouts, that hardworking people deserve to keep what they earn, that there is no free lunch, that people who come here legally should share in the American Dream, that there have been episodes in our history that were horrible, but that overall, Americans believe in fairness, opportunity for all and that handouts cripple self determination.
The history of our country includes episodes of mistreatment of people of color, denigration of women, discrimination of immigrants from multiple countries, different ideologies, wars against native Americans, and disagreements over westward expansion. But, this is the history of the world. There has always been the realization that there are conquerors and conquered; winners and losers; success and failure, abundance and deprivation, assimilation and annihilation.
But, the polarization of the political minds, the hate fomented by elite universities, the antisemitism allowed to be exhibited by students at elite universities is unacceptable.
Two young people who represented the best of the best, who sought peaceful solutions, who looked for ways to help the people of Gaza, were murdered in cold blood in no small part because of the rhetoric spewed by coddled, undereducated, pampered, indoctrinated, unaware, ignorant, unethical, parochial, bubbled, self- important, ignorant, overindulged sycophants of the leftist ideological idiocy. Shame! The alleged ‘elite’ universities that allow this perpetration of prejudice, discrimination against anyone with whom they disagree, and tacitly approve the provocation of violence should lose all federal funding, all grants, all student subsidies, all tax benefits, and all rights to enroll students who are not US citizens. Starve them of foreign influence and opportunities for foreign governments to infiltrate spies into our universities. Just say NO!
I am horrified by the lack of critical thinking exhibited by these alleged scions of the elite.
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