Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Pod Save the World"
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Tommy and Ben,
Two factoids for you:
First, a dim memory that I can't back up: I think I remember a survey from back in the 1960's, when I was a magazine editor in New York: the average of all Americans' estimates of the number of Americans who are Jewish was 25%!!!
Second, a feeling again: I have the impression gathered in that period, just after the Six Day War (about which my employer, American Heritage, put out a book, "Terrible Swift Sword," produced in six days of 'round the clock editry), the impression that between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Six Day War of 1967, America's soi-disant "Christian" right wing had made a 180 degree volte-face. These children of Gerald L.K. Smith and his crypto-fascist bretheren of the 1930's had suddenly become supporters, near worshippers, of Israel.
The dogma-crafters among them came up with a lot of phoney baloney theological guff about how Israel was sent for 1,000 years as a sort of doormat to some stupid Armageddon of their imaginings, a bloodbath which is somehow going to be wonderful for them and theirs.
Their dogmatists and preachers quite apart, there was a psychological mushroom cloud visible out there. Evangelicals' antisemitism exploded and blew away. A thick layer of society's dung-heap, people for whom antisemitism was fine as long as "the" Jews were weak and hence contemptible, had to change their tune for the armed and victorious Sabra.
Somewhere out there behind the round-cornered black and white TV screen, there a was a friendly allied nation of a hundred million, who knows about these big numbers, maybe billions, of Paul Newmans astride their tanks!
The first shoots of today's America...
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