Nothing brings America together like its devotion to Israel, or at least, this is the impression one gets when watching television.
American media finds much to disagree about, generally. How many genders are there? Liberals tell us it is an infinite variety. Conservatives, being quite moderate, are generally skeptical of greater than six, and of course insist one fill out the proper forms before entering spaces reserved for the opposite sex. Should America have borders? Liberals say no. Conservatives, say "kinda". Is America a racist country? Liberals say yes. Conservatives say "it's complicated". Plenty of vigorous debate on these subjects. The country is totally divided.
But when Israel is under threat, we are all Americans. What defines us as Americans more than any other factor - more than ethnicity, or language, or culture, or territory, or even our much worshipped diversity - is our undying devotion to a foreign ethnostate, spun out of whole cloth, less than a century ago. These borders, unlike our own, are holy and inviolable.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died bravely fighting the most evil force in history, the Nazis, to rescue God's chosen people and deliver them to the promised land. For this, we are blessed by God and endowed with the right and the obligation to rule the Earth by force until Jesus returns and every tongue is made to confess.
This compulsory State religion skirts the First Amendment's establishment clause by parading as objective fact. It is not doctrine, it is history, you see. To disagree is to confess one's guilt, to renounce one's citizenship, and one's humanity.
And yet some still do. Anti-Semites, mostly. Though not all of them confess their thought crime. Not immediately, anyway. Some might actually even believe they are innocent of the sin of anti-Semitism. They say they are merely criticizing a foreign Right wing government, but eventually they are made to know that criticizing Israel is, by definition, anti-Semitic, and once they know this, they accept that they are anti-Semites.
This, as you might expect, has the effect of breeding much anti-Semitism.
Here at SurrealPolitiks, we are, officially, anyway, agnostic on that subject. Value free, as it were, in the vein of the best economists. Calling balls and strikes. It seems to us reasonable that Jews would prefer there to be less anti-Semitism, and that non-Jews would have substantially more diverse opinions on that subject.
Though it is not at all certain this is the case, and this we think one can objectively call peculiar.
