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Worriedman's avatar

Most people are, in fact , reasonable. The assholes stand out. Seems like we could marginalize them a bit better. (Like, not putting assholes in charge I guess.)

I'm at the hospital. My wife is having surgery. Not major, though not minor either. The hard part will be the potential 6 - 10 weeks on a liquid diet. My wife has been honest about our marriage not lasting through that.

When I first went out to the waiting room there was some tall , older ex - realtor looking guy talking to the chaplain who was explaining to him they wouldn't change the TV to Fox News because it upset people. He retired rather sullenly to a corner to watch it on his phone. Everyone seemed relieved.

Thanks for attending these things - it's always interesting.

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Jeffrey Kramer's avatar

I grew up in a liberal Jewish family which had basically four political dogmas:

1. FDR saved this country

2. Never cross a picket line

3. We Shall Overcome

4. Israel is never wrong.

It really hurt to have to abandon #4; Jewish exceptionalism, like American exceptionalism, is a helluva drug. Guess I've gone from:

Israel is always in the right, to

If Israel is ever in the wrong, they were intolerably provoked into it by their enemies, to

Israel is, like every other country, a land of moral contrasts, to

Israel is trying very, very hard to lose any degree of sympathy I ever had for it, to

If I had to choose which march to go to, it would be the one chanting "From the River to the Sea..."

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