A note to stiff-necked people
To those Jews planning to vote for Obama:
Are you prepared to explain to your children not the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?
Irrespective of your endorsement of liberal sentiments, of fairness and “more equal distribution,” will you explain to your children that top-down economic policies will increasingly limit their ability to find challenging and well-paid work, and that the diminution in employment and income will decrease their opportunity to marry and raise children?
Will you explain (as you have observed) that a large part of their incomes will be used to fund programs that they may find immoral, wasteful and/or indeed absurd? And that the bulk of their taxes go to no programs at all, but merely service the debt you entailed on them?
Blowback
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Absolutely love this guy!
If my Jewish bros can’t see this, how will anybody?
OkieDoc on November 5, 2012 at 7:08 PM
This is one of the comments from the article.
Night Owl on November 5, 2012 at 7:13 PM
+100
I read his book a few months ago. Very impressive. This guy understands today’s liberalism like few others.
petefrt on November 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM
Whoa, didn’t see this coming from someone like David Mamet.
CorporatePiggy on November 5, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Anyone who considers Thomas Sowell to be our greatest, living philosopher certainly has something on the ball.
Great article Mr. Mamet, but it can apply to non-Jews of the leftward persuasion as well—those who call themselves leftist Christians, for example.
Thomas More on November 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM
Mamet saw the light. Glad to have him on our side.
As for the Jewicidals, I just don’t get it. Idiocy.
dukecitygirl on November 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM
This is great. Loved his book. Mamet gets it.
jix on November 5, 2012 at 7:37 PM
Don’t get too excited. Mamet wrote a great piece – but it is published on a far left-leaning site that is openly pushing for Obama. They have a “response” to the Mamet essay that has a larger headline than the Mamet’s, which is twice as long, and which refutes every point Mamet makes – all with an infuriating air of superiority.
The purpose of publishing Mamet’s piece was to provide the excuse for the more detailed refutation/scolding.
As a Jew, I clearly recognize here all the signs of the self-hating Jew – in denial and desperate to assimilate. Sad.
sultanp on November 5, 2012 at 7:38 PM
Don’t get the “stiff necked people” allusion but this is so spot-on – and (like me) one not need be a Jew to totally share his concerns. Above and beyond the economic realities, this should be shouted from the rooftops:
Buy Danish on November 5, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Unfortunately the Jews have a long history of doing the exact opposite of what God tells them to do. Even a casual read of the Old Testament makes one wonder why Moses didn’t walk of and leave them in the desert any of a hundred times in the 40 years they were there. I guess it is something they and we Christians have in common. God takes care of us not because of the things we do but in spite of them.
MikeA on November 5, 2012 at 7:57 PM
Calling them a stiff-necked people is, I believe, an allusion to what God called the Israelites in the Old Testament due to their repeated turning away from Him and His commandments and instruction.
Angineer on November 5, 2012 at 8:02 PM
A parable:
Vladimir and Leah grew up in a village. Vladimir courted Leah, and their relationship was growing closer. However, one day, Leah’s family had to move to America, and she went with them. She always held fond memories of her youth, and of Vladimir. She later heard he married one of the other girls in the village, Rachel, and she always wondered what could have been.
Leah was not pleased to hear rumors that Vladimir beat Rachel, and was terrible to her. Since Leah mostly heard these stories from people who were not fond of Leah either, she dismissed them out-of-hand. All she could remember was how kind and loving, and very….involved Vladimir was towards her.
Leah was too involved in her own life far away, when she heard that Rachel had left Vladimir, and shortly afterwards Vladimir had died. Even years later, when she finally met Rachel in Israel, and she confirmed that Vladimir had beaten her throughout the marriage, Leah was unconvinced. She had spent her life watching from afar, and wondering what could have been. Leah had loved Vladimir fruitlessly her whole life, so why change now? Leah never got to see Vladimir’s decisiveness turn into control. She never saw the push on the shoulder he gave her once when they had a disagreement turn into a beating. She never burned his borscht, and saw Vladmir overreact. Leah moved to America long before she could see the beast behind the gentleman’s mask, so she still thought of Vladimir as a gentleman, and still welcomed his friends when they came to visit America.
Just my take on the matter.
Sekhmet on November 5, 2012 at 8:09 PM
Thanks – makes perfect sense too in context w/Mamet’s message.
Buy Danish on November 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM
That is one powerful sentence.
At a campaign rally today, Obama said, you know me, I tell the truth. This is the man who said increasing the debt ceiling was a failure in leadership and said he’d halve the deficit and then doubled it. The man who spoke up for limits imposed by federal funding of elections and was the first President to break those limits when he found it favored him against McCain. The man who said there’s not a rich and poor America or black and white America but one America and then race-baits and engages in class warfare like no other President. The man who says he’ll work across the aisle then never talks to the other party’s leadership. The man who said he’d work out ObamaCare in public before voting on it, even putting the deliberations on C-Span, when it was all done in secret, and C-Span wasn’t even contacted to air the hearings. The man who said he’s work on entitlement reform and debt reform and then ignores the findings of his own debt commission.
Paul-Cincy on November 5, 2012 at 8:24 PM
The Biblical Hebrew is “am k’shei oref.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM
All you need to know about the trajectory of the Democratic Party you can learn by watching the final episode of “The West Wing”, and observing how the various staffers “end” the party” by bedding each other in various combinations.
This was in May 2006, two years after George Bush defeated John Kerry partly on the strength of the “Values Voters”.
This nostalgic reference is apropos to Mamet’s post because of Michaelson’s response, which ends, following his passionate but lame attempts to fisk Mamet by spouting nonsense (stopping global warming is my most important legacy) and error (Obama is the bestest friend Israel ever had), with the observation that
Now that the Catholic bishops, the black preachers, and the Jewish voters outside of J Street have learned what Obama really believes, and have started denouncing it, this West Wing is showcasing its counter-culture values in its own final episode.
AesopFan on November 5, 2012 at 11:34 PM