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2018-01-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Chosen People and American Exceptionalism

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself.

Posted by newc 2018-01-15 01:19|| 2018-01-15 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, that is a secular way of looking at it.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-01-15 07:43|| 2018-01-15 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 maybe Soloveichik is speaking about the people he hangs with

in lots of America, e.g., Universities, Hollywood, NGOs, conservatives are not tolerated, in fact even moderates and people who are non political are not tolerated

Posted by lord garth 2018-01-15 10:26|| 2018-01-15 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I finally figured out American Exceptionalism derives from the concept of leaving your tribe behind, to become an American. A concept which the lefties have been trying to undo for years, most effectively with our last POTUS.

Posted by Bobby 2018-01-15 10:28|| 2018-01-15 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Something changed in the 50/60s in most of this nation. Before that people knew their neighbors, after that they drove into their garage and rarely saw their neighbors.

The exception is the suburbs where kids play in the yards and such but Liberals hate the suburbs with a passion (almost as much as they seem to hate themselves).

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-01-15 12:06|| 2018-01-15 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Something changed in the 50/60s in most of this nation.
I think it was TV. I still remember the week the first family in the neighborhood got one. Instantly the kids playing in the yards and playgrounds went inside to watch. From after school to dinnertime, the community of children playing together suddenly ended.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-01-15 12:19|| 2018-01-15 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 TV and the availability of cars. Houses started to be designed with garages in front so you could enter without ever encountering a neighbor. This changed the way people interrelated even if unintentionally.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-01-15 14:51|| 2018-01-15 14:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't much care for interacting with neighbors. In fact I rather like not having neighbors.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-01-15 17:39|| 2018-01-15 17:39|| Front Page Top

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