Jews in the Woods

Abortion, same-sex marriage, and birth control, whatever else they are, are a displacement of anxiety on the Left about the state of our civilization, as are offshore drilling and the right to own firearms (for example) to the Right; the Left frames its arguments around the essential goodness (barring the Right, Israel, and the Jews) of all humankind; the RightБЂ”around the raceБЂ™s observable pursuit, as individuals and states, of its own ends, irrespective of its pronouncements (the Tragic View). The ascription to leaders of supernormal powers is a recurring aberration (called the Election Cycle) which entertains us, and licenses those thoughts, words, feeling, and actions usually kept in check, and it is perhaps no accident that the election cycle (formerly called БЂњelectionsБЂ«) is growing and will continue to grow to be continuous, just as, to the preverbal mind, БЂњThe Woods are Burning.БЂ«The Left thinks the Right (America) is ruining the world. The Right thinks the Left is ruining the country. I endorse the latter view. 29 THE FAMILY The effective organ for the transmission of cultural information is the family ...»