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America, Rising from the Ashes
The US and Israel are allies once again, celebrates David Mamet, Pulitzer prize winner, playwright, film director, and screenwriter. Unlike Rome, Greece, Nineveh and Tyre, Babylon, and Nazi Germany—America’s return to dust has been delayed. Mr. Mamet saw America’s irreversible decline as what happens to all great nations that turn away from God.
Israel Leader of the Free World
The Jewish state has been the West’s sole protection against Islamist terror, fighting while reviled by the people and countries it was protecting. Its position was not unlike that of Donald Trump’s—demonized, persecuted, targeted for violence.
The horror of the past four years—the appeasement of terror, the slavish support of our enemies, the abandonment of the state of Israel, the assaults on free speech—seemed to Mr. Mamet as the descent into chaos, which has been the end of every world power.
Untrue, continues Mr. Mamet in the WSJ, God’s promise to the Jews that their fear and his rejection is a universal human myth. “The hero is given a task he rejects.” The mystic hero, when confronted, faced with himself, must choose bravery over cowardice.
The mythic hero is aided by the Word of God, contemporary Westerners by heroic example. Winston Churchill inspired in his country’s populace an awareness of their own greatness. So does Mr. Trump.
Yet half of America not only abides but fervently supports a codependent decline to poverty, crime and a nascent police state. Why? The leftist politicians and their media courtiers and designated beneficiaries profited from the perks of power. But why did the everyday American endorse them and their fear mongering? The actual threat wasn’t global warming, Islamophobia, the Supreme Court, the police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Mr. Trump. It was exclusion from the herd.
Shattering the Family Façade
Mr. Mamet likens American politics to a family dealing with a member with an addiction, whose acknowledgment of it would shatter the family façade. For the last four years, America has been dominated by a coalition each of “whose members, like codependent kin, has its own investment in group integrity and the power it derives therefrom.”
The superrich, academia, Islamists, Marxists and the media have colluded to suppress the true and impose the false.
Unsupportable Lies and Dysfunction
We know that their perfidies, lawfare, slander, blacklisting and civil persecution were practiced on conservatives and Republicans, particularly on Mr. Trump. But the suppression was targeted primarily at their own voters.
To remain unthreatened by reason, the liberal populace had to be convinced to endorse various lies and fantasies: Black Lives Matter, Israel’s perfidy, unlimited abortion as a woman’s right, men’s right to compete in women’s sports, the abolition of the police, Mr. Trump’s demonic power and so on.
Like Mr. Mamet, you ask, why would rational people vote to destroy their borders, their cities, their jobs, and their children?
For the same reason, the sick family must tolerate its dysfunction: The co-opted liberal electorate was terrified that any deviation would result in destruction of its protective unit. As it would.
“Joy” and “Turn the Page”
The hagiography of Kamala Harris began on July 21, when President Joe Biden was ousted from the campaign.
Conservatives’ requests for clarification of her role as “border czar” were labeled “misogynistic.” Her catch phrases were “joy” and “turn the page.” Why would she have wanted to turn the page on four years of the Biden administration, of which she said she would do nothing differently?
Kamala Harris Wasn’t Donald Trump
To the left, what mattered was that Kamala Harris was not Donald Trump, who was their enemy because he represented a challenge they could not accept.
The transition from party-line liberal to reasonable citizen generally involves some degree of shame. The genius of 12-step programs is that shame in them can be aired, and, so diffused, in a company each of which has undergone a similar upheaval; where confessions of complicity and shame are greeted and diffused with recognition, laughter and welcome—as among new conservatives, and new devotees to citizenship.
Prosperity, interconnectivity and their attendant confusions have led to chaos, the denigration of religion, the family, law and the nations whose identity was created out of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The U.K. now is prosecuting those standing silently across the street from abortion clinics. Should they testify that they were praying, they are guilty of a crime.
Since the ‘20 election, Mr. Mamet has feared a new American revolution, the leftist government proclaiming its intent “to destroy parents whom it calls terrorists and citizens whom it deems insurrectionists.”
During the past four years Mr. Trump—raided, indicted, convicted, sued, slandered and shot—continued to grow in popularity, and attracted the like-minded into a coalition stronger than that of the left.
The horror of the past four years has been the “appeasement of terror, the slavish support of our enemies, the abandonment of the state of Israel, the assaults on free speech.”
Mr. Mamet saw this as the descent into the chaos that has been the end of every world power. Mr. Mamet took comfort in the scriptures when he saw what he thought was an “irreversible decline” of the U.S.
Someday, America may indeed go the way of past civilizations. “But not today.”
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