somehow i ended up with 2 separate posts (originsally) into this one post ....
I separated them. this first one was posted originally i think IN it's own "post box" AFTER the "second" one! shheeeessh
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hoooo boy U2DM and even more Pearl!
i grew up with FDR & Elenor R-type liberal parents and have stayed that way.
Sometimes i think could i be wrong contemplating some issue.... a quick review of what i've heard, seen, experinced in life -- i answer to myself "nah"
in fact in some ways i've become even more liberal/ progressive.
at some point earlier on 70's? i remember the word "progressive" that well know activist liberals claimed the word progressive because liberal had become such a "dirty" word.
On the other hand i guess it was later on that ? some people declared that progressive meant more ledft than liberal. Not to be confused with neo-liberal; altho i think some issues are agreed upon between them.
Pearl you'll get a kick out of this i think...
when i was in my tweens one of my best friends was a girl who's father left Cuba don't know if he married here or left with his wife . I remember riding in back of their car...me & and girlfriend basically saying we'd "rather be dead, than red!".
Red = Communist, Red China, Soviet Union
pink-diapered baby meant a child of avowed/suspected Communists
I
had no idea back then that communism & socialism were often different things!
And also that the
very humorless peole hawking their
?Socialist Workers Party Newspaper in the big hallway near the Lunchroom of my Art College were
not necessarily the same as some of the brands of European Solcialism or Nordic Countries Socialism ofI think we could learn things from.
Although I belive in bending, even breaking rules at times, i'm not an anarchist. Although one of my favorite political sayings does come from an anarchist ...Emma Goldberg.
it goes something like the first part i think is verbatum
"If I can't dance to your Revolution." .... then something about> tnot being in terested in it.
too tired too goggle itf up right now
hope i fixed most of my typos!
I pledge allegiance to the UNITED STATES not the state of Israel. There's no reason to put Jerusalem in any party platform unless you're bowing to AIPAC. They've got the money and guns- let them sort out their own shit.
ugh
AIPAC .......
what's SO deffieciant and sad is that
in Israel there's
much more of a broader debate between Ultra-Religous, Religious, more Reform and probably some secular Jews and a very much Active Peace Movement, and Jews already working with Palestinian Peace & cooperation people through the years....
...not that many non-Jewish Americans even know this !!!
How do I know this?
I'm not Jewish, I just play one on TV!
j/k.... i spent a lot of years my later kid, tween & teen years ESP when we first moved into the middle section of the area there... it was? oh 60-65% Jewish. A mix of secular, Reform, Conservative but not Ultra-Orthadox Jews!
It was great fun when they're be the High Holy Days ( Sept - Oct depending on older Calander) and the rest of us... some Protestians, a lot of various Ethnic Catholics: Irish, Greek, and anti-Castro Cubans and Puerto Ricans Catholics too.....
and there'd be only 35-30% in the class!
Anyway i'm a native NYC'r, there's big a big Jewish presense and concentrated in certain neighborhoods more than others, so sort of picked up some of the lingo.....
and the POV that Israel could do no wrong.
Over the decades i learned a way more nuanced view. I still support their Statehood alot, but their are issues of fairness & abuse etc that have not been well adressed.