Thursday, September 4, 2014

Happy Talk frustrating the Hysteria Masters

I don't remember the Second World War; I was born in the middle of it. I don't remember the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki; I was an infant at the time. I remember something about the Korean War because I was old enough to stand (as did the grownups) on the beach in Djibouti, look East and pretend to be sad like any of the grownups watching the warships sail away in a South Eastern direction, carrying UN soldiers to a war that will hurt most of the soldiers and kill some of them.

I vividly remember, and I began to understand the Vietnam War since the time when the French were fighting there. I remember the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Anglo-French attack on Egypt, the Cuban missile crisis, the Bay of Pigs, the racial disturbances in America when the integration of schools was attempted, the assassination of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. I remember the Indian and Chinese famines, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I remember the 1967-73 war in the Middle East, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and then Afghanistan. I remember the Eastern European revolutions. And to crown all of these horrors, I remember the election of Rove, Cheney, and the W to the White House.

Are we living at a more perilous time than these? I don't believe so. What is happening now, however, is that the number of media outlets has increased so much; the competition between them to score a high rating has made them sensationalize every material they get. Added to this are the techniques they learned from the Jewish propaganda machine, chief among these being the spread of rumors to the effect that an existential threat lurks out there, ready to pounce on the nation and reduce it to rubble.

But does that scare ordinary people? Well, that depends on how you define the word scare. Today, a parent in America is more scared driving their child to school where it might be murdered, than the possibility of seeing the city reduced to rubble by a foreign missile. Besides crime, what preoccupies these people is the state of the economy. In this regard, it is worth remembering something about the Clinton era.

There used to be a joke often told at the time. It went as follows. Bill Clinton says to ordinary Joe: Look how many jobs I created. And Joe responds: I know, I got three of them to make ends meet. That was the time when globalization had started, and the economy was replacing an old paradigm with a new one. The process is still ongoing, and in the same way that we now view the Clinton economy as having been sound, the Obama economy will in the future prove to have been sound. People adapt to new situations which is why they worry – change is always worrisome – but the question is this: do they go as far as get nervous about Obama's happy talk like says Dana Milbank of the Washington Post?

Milbank says that much in an article he wrote under the title: “President Obama's unnerving happy talk” which he published in the Post on September 2, 2014. And the reason why he is unnerved is that “President Obama is not worried,” he says. Actually, that's not the whole story because he spends nearly half the article explaining how and why the Europeans are more worried than Obama. And then, out of the blue, he drops what he wants the readers to believe is an actual observation of the American scene. It is this: “In short, Americans would worry less if Obama worried more.” No, he has no proof of that.

But this is exactly what the Jewish organizations want to see happen in North America and elsewhere in the English speaking world. They want the leaders of these places to do what David Cameron did in Britain, and that is to shout from the rooftops – not that “The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming” – but that the Muslims are coming, the Muslims are coming.

And they want the American people to run hysterically in the streets the same way that the Nazis ran on Chrystal Night, rampaging Jewish properties. They reckon that if this happens, they will have demonstrated that such events do occur not because the Jewish character invites them, but because the human gene suffers from a defect called antisemitism.

And they will do everything in their power to pull off this stunt. But they will keep failing.