Post by Daniel on May 24, 2016 15:09:37 GMT -5
Fascism is Looming Over the US — And It’s Bad News for the Jews
By Dr. Michael Laitman May 24, 2016
As I fear for unity within Israel, I fear for the unity of American Jewry, and its ties with Israel.
For several years now, America has been on a path toward autocracy. If not stopped soon, it will end in fascism or even Nazism. When this happens, the Jews, as always, will take the heat, and atrocities we thought were gone for good might reoccur.
The current election campaign has been fraught with anger, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and blatant anti-democratic statements. Worse yet, candidates who are using this type of rhetoric are succeeding beyond everyone’s expectations, except, perhaps, their own. As Andrew Sullivan of New York Magazine wrote, this tells us that “America has never been so ripe for tyranny.”
Even as far back as 24 centuries ago, Socrates knew that “Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.” In the late 1940s and early 1950s my teacher’s father, the venerated Rav Yehuda Ashlag, contended that transition from democracy to tyranny is not an option. In the paper, The Nation, he asserted that “whenever the democratic government is ruined, a fascist, Nazi regime will inherit it.”
A Fertile Soil for Tyranny
On the face of it, the key word in this election campaign is “protest.” People’s debilitating and demoralizing daily hardships are pushing them to step out of the familiar in search for quick fixes. Many of them are so disillusioned with the current establishment that they have adopted the anything-but-what-we-have-now approach. This is a treacherous path, but unless we understand its causes we will not be able to change it.
continue reading
www.breakingisraelnews.com/68307/fascism-is-looming-over-the-us-and-its-bad-news-for-the-jews-opinion/
By Dr. Michael Laitman May 24, 2016
As I fear for unity within Israel, I fear for the unity of American Jewry, and its ties with Israel.
For several years now, America has been on a path toward autocracy. If not stopped soon, it will end in fascism or even Nazism. When this happens, the Jews, as always, will take the heat, and atrocities we thought were gone for good might reoccur.
The current election campaign has been fraught with anger, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and blatant anti-democratic statements. Worse yet, candidates who are using this type of rhetoric are succeeding beyond everyone’s expectations, except, perhaps, their own. As Andrew Sullivan of New York Magazine wrote, this tells us that “America has never been so ripe for tyranny.”
Even as far back as 24 centuries ago, Socrates knew that “Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.” In the late 1940s and early 1950s my teacher’s father, the venerated Rav Yehuda Ashlag, contended that transition from democracy to tyranny is not an option. In the paper, The Nation, he asserted that “whenever the democratic government is ruined, a fascist, Nazi regime will inherit it.”
A Fertile Soil for Tyranny
On the face of it, the key word in this election campaign is “protest.” People’s debilitating and demoralizing daily hardships are pushing them to step out of the familiar in search for quick fixes. Many of them are so disillusioned with the current establishment that they have adopted the anything-but-what-we-have-now approach. This is a treacherous path, but unless we understand its causes we will not be able to change it.
continue reading
www.breakingisraelnews.com/68307/fascism-is-looming-over-the-us-and-its-bad-news-for-the-jews-opinion/
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