Shifting Alliances

 

If it seems that the ground is shifting underneath you, it’s because it is.  We are going through multiple paradigm shifts simultaneously and it’s happening so fast that we can hardly catch our breath.  Alliances also are being torn apart and reformed at mind numbing speed, both here and abroad.

Alliance of Democratic Party with Islamism. 
Something like 80-85% of American Jews reliably vote Democratic year in and year out.  But astonishingly, Jews are being abandoned and scorned by Democrats.  The elevation of the stature of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on a national level is simply stunning.  Democrats couldn’t even bring themselves to condemn Omar’s blatant anti-semitism and Tlaib is now grotesquely on a panel on anti-semitism yet recently retweeted her “from the river to the sea” comment, implying the destruction of Israel.  Democratic New York mayor Bill DeBlasio has targeted Orthodox Jews, their families and businesses for violating COVID rules, obviously singling them out for punishment.  I often wonder how long it will take for many American Jews to realize that they are not in the club anymore?

One must wonder how deeply Islamism has seeped into the American bureaucracy.   In the Obama administration, Obama inexplicably made outreach by NASA a high priority.  And more recently, the CDC in its Thanksgiving recommendations said that we should wear a mask (face veil), and refrain from singing and alcohol use. Sounds suspiciously Taliban-y to me.

The Vatican and the Globalist Left
What more can I say about Pope Francis?  Forty years ago, we had a pope that played a leading role in the fall of the Soviet Union and the discreditation of Communism.  Francis has done an about face and has embraced globalism, and has been harshly critical of the “ideology of individualism” while standing mute against the environmental and human rights abuses of the Chinese Communist Party.  Early in his tenure, I called attention to Francis’s tendency to use the exact same language as Hugo Chavez.   He has since shifted to adopt the slogans and phrases of the globalist left and explicitly used the “build back better” slogan.  He seems less concerned with saving souls than he does parroting the messages of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg.

Catholics and Jews
Faithful Catholics and Jews, finding their rights to worship abrogated by bullying mayors are closing ranks.   I proposed a National Conference of Vigano Catholics and Religious Jews.  Both are held in contempt by New York major DeBlasio, and both united to take their case for opening houses of worship to the Supreme Court.  As progressives continue to use COVID as a pretext for stomping on religious liberty, I predict a closer bond between Catholics and Jews.

Gulf States and Israel
Just as Catholics and Jews have formed tighter bonds, Gulf States and Israel are making peace.  Contrary to the assertions of John Kerry, peace between the Arab states and Israel is being forged without a Palestinian state (see Jake Novak’s latest periscope{ (https://twitter.com/jakejakeny/status/1335619906704969729?s=20)

And at the same time, the U.S. is drawing down troops in the Middle East.  This is a wonderful development, due in no small part to the continued pressure placed on the Iranian regime by Donald Trump.

Blacks and Republicans

Yes, progressives seem to be running the table right now.  Smug and confident, and one stolen election away from controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency, they are poised to make radical changes to our society.  Yet, at some level, they must be terrified.  The Democratic party is in danger of driving Jewish voters away and now black voters are starting to leak out.  Trump did reasonably well with black voters and a new cadre of conservative black voices has started to bubble up.  Burgess Owens, Kim Klacik, Candace Owens and comedian Terrance Williams have surfaced as leading black conservative blacks.  It doesn’t yet look like a mass exodus from the Democratic party, but these fresh black voices could start to chip away at Democratic dominance among African Americans.

Much is being said about the Great Reset.  Certainly, a number of traditional alliances are shifting and the Great Reset may not turn out quite like progressives expect.