{"id":307924,"date":"2025-05-05T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307924"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:01:24","slug":"an-open-letter-to-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307924","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Skrbina \u2013 The Occidental Observer May 1, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

My Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hard time to be a liberal.\u00a0 I know, because I used to be one.\u00a0 Or rather, I still am one, but a true<\/em> liberal, unlike the many fake liberals out there.\u00a0 Allow me to explain.<\/p>\n

Long ago, as an idealistic college student, I valued my high moral principles, my faith in the vague notion of human equality, my trust in authorities, and my open-mindedness.\u00a0 I believed that most people in positions of power were well-intentioned, if a bit misguided, and that political and economic situations ran into trouble mostly because of bad luck or the occasional bad actor.\u00a0 I believed that people had to be judged as individuals, and that any assessment of entire groups constituted a sweeping generalization or a caricature that lacked merit.\u00a0 I believed all people and all races could live together; I believed that we owed something to the less-fortunate of society, no matter who they were.\u00a0 I believed that, by and large, the American system worked, and that the best would move up in society and prosper.\u00a0 And I believed that most everyone shared these views.<\/p>\n

But I later found out that I was wrong on nearly every count.\u00a0 Years of hard thinking, research, discussion, personal experience, and observant daily life proved the deficiency of my former views; one by one, they eroded away.\u00a0 I found out that group characteristics are real and objective, and that they are indicative of broad social trends, even if there exist many individual exceptions.\u00a0 I saw systemic actions in academia, media, government, and business to promote certain values, to disparage other values, and to advance a certain worldview or mindset that benefited specific people.\u00a0 I realized that corruption in social institutions was far deeper and more entrenched than I dared believe.\u00a0 I came to see that religion\u2014and specifically Christianity\u2014was a malevolent force in society, one that again served to benefit a certain group of people at the expense of many others.\u00a0 I came to understand that much of history was distorted, misrepresented, or outright falsified.\u00a0 I thought I lived in a largely open-minded and liberal world, but I discovered, to my dismay, that I lived in a controlled and manipulated world.<\/p>\n

The final straw, for me, was the realization that many people in positions of authority also knew about many of these things but that they either said nothing, covered them up, or actively participated in them. \u00a0In short, I realized that I had been lied to or otherwise deceived on a massive scale, for years, by people at virtually every level of society\u2014people that I trusted and respected.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about you, my liberal friends, but if there is one thing I hate in this world, it is being lied to by people in authority.\u00a0 I can forgive ignorance and I can forgive naivet\u00e9, but willful deception is unforgiveable.\u00a0 \u201cYou knew<\/em> better,\u201d I said (figuratively) to people in power; \u201cYou knew<\/em> this was wrong, you knew<\/em> what was going on, but you said nothing<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Worse: \u201cYou sustained<\/em> it, and you profited<\/em> from it.\u201d\u00a0 This permanently destroyed my simple-minded liberalism.<\/p>\n

Let me offer a few specifics, starting with the question of race.\u00a0 I had virtually no contact with Blacks growing up, at least until late high school.\u00a0 I vaguely considered this a good thing, given that my limited knowledge of Black culture was based on those living in our inner city, which was a decidedly unpleasant place to live.\u00a0 But they had their sphere of life, we had ours, no big deal.\u00a0 Then when I came to apply for college, I ran into the issue of affirmative action, which was just coming to a head at that time; racial quotas were ruled illegal, but race could still be used as a factor in college admissions. \u00a0I was admitted with no problem, but other classmates did not get in, and it is unclear how many lost places to otherwise less-qualified Blacks or other minorities.<\/p>\n

The official justification for affirmative action in university admissions has always been \u201cto remedy past and current discrimination\u201d; but how does that relate to the less-qualified Black who got in?\u00a0 Was it discrimination that caused him to be less-qualified in the first place?\u00a0 And why penalize my 18-year-old friend who never discriminated against anyone?\u00a0 Are the children paying for the sins of the fathers?\u00a0 (How very Old-Testament!)<\/p>\n

And was it really helping the less-qualified Blacks, to let them in, only to have them struggle and fail at disproportionately high rates?\u00a0 According to recent data<\/a>, 68% of Whites graduate within six years of university study, versus just 45% of Blacks.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Can it be \u201csystemic racism\u201d?<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, affirmative action might be tolerable if there were an actual plan with actual objectives.\u00a0 But there was not; there never is, with our liberal administrators.\u00a0 If they had said, \u201cLook, we need affirmative action to break the cycle of Black families without college degrees.\u00a0 So, we need to do this for 20 years, to raise a full generation of degreed Blacks.\u00a0 Then, everything will be even, and we can go back to normal, merit-based admissions.\u201d\u00a0 Had they said this, and provided some data supporting it, I might have gone along.\u00a0 But of course they said no such thing.\u00a0 Obviously\u2014does any sane person think that after 20 years of preferential treatment, that Blacks would thereafter perform at levels equal to Whites?\u00a0 Of course not!\u00a0 Thirty years?\u00a0 Fifty years?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 The reality is that our liberal overseers want affirmative action forever<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is an admission of failure.\u00a0 It is an admission that Blacks are congenitally incapable of performing at levels equal to Whites, and that American Whites must pay for the \u201csins\u201d of slavery forever.\u00a0 In short, there is no solution <\/em>to the \u201cBlack problem\u201d in America.\u00a0 Short of ridding ourselves of Blacks, we must pay the price forever.\u00a0 Or such is the liberal state of affairs.<\/p>\n

And then there was history.\u00a0 I had always been a sort of World War Two buff, and was always fascinated by the German story, by Hitler\u2019s life, and by the drama and grandeur of the entire event.\u00a0 So it took me a while to realize that World War Two shows up a lot<\/em> in popular discourse\u2014in fact, far more than might reasonably be expected from an event that was several decades ago and was largely played out on other continents.\u00a0 And of course, the coverage was so routinely slanted that, for a long time, I never really noticed it.\u00a0 It took me years to ask myself very basic questions: Why is it that every aspect of Hitler\u2019s Germany gets negative coverage?\u00a0 Why is Hitler the universal measuring rod for evil?\u00a0 Why is \u2018Nazi\u2019 synonymous with \u2018bad\u2019?\u00a0 Why do we hear so much about the Holocaust?<\/p>\n

At about the same time, as I was progressing in my \u201cliberal\u201d education, I started thinking more about the Jewish situation.\u00a0 Growing up, I had never known any Jews\u2014or at least, none that were public.\u00a0 Once in college, I encountered a fair number of guys in the residence halls that were, shall we say, rude; they were known to us as \u201cthe guys from New York.\u201d\u00a0 They were loud, pushy, obnoxious. \u2026\u00a0 Oh well, I said to my liberal self, people are people.\u00a0 Just stay out of their way.\u00a0 And don\u2019t make any plans to visit NYC!<\/p>\n

Only late in my schooling did I realize that \u201cthe guys from New York\u201d were all, to a man, Jewish, and that this fact might well be significant.\u00a0 I then discovered that my campus was something like 15% Jewish\u2014in a state that was maybe 1% Jewish.\u00a0 Wait, how does that happen?\u00a0 Then I realized that my university president was a Jew, that nearly half of the Board of Regents were Jews, and that a large chunk of my humanities professors were Jews\u2014wait a minute, how does that work?<\/em>\u00a0 Common sense and basic liberal values dictate that if 1% of my state is Jewish, that roughly one out of a hundred of my fellow students and teachers should be Jews, that one out of a hundred college administrators should be Jews, and so on.\u00a0 If that were not the case\u2014as it clearly wasn\u2019t, by a factor of 10 or more\u2014then that could only be due to some \u201csystemic racism\u201d in favor of Jews.\u00a0 Is that fair?\u00a0 Could all those buildings named after wealthy Jewish donors have something to do with it?\u00a0 No, never, I told my liberal self.<\/p>\n

As I progressed into grad school, earned a PhD in philosophy, and became a lecturer at my alma mater, I became aware of the \u201cBDS\u201d movement\u2014the campus efforts to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel over actions in the occupied territories.\u00a0 Objectively, the case was clear: Israel was in violation of international law, flouted UN resolutions for decades, engaged in periodic episodes of abuse and torture of the Palestinians, inflicted collective punishment, and committed murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.\u00a0 It was an open-and-shut case; of course, any thinking, ethical person would have to agree that Israel was in the wrong\u2014criminally so\u2014and that any moral institution would want to dissociate itself, at least, from such evil.\u00a0 This was the bare minimum.<\/p>\n

So why, then, was virtually all BDS action led by students?\u00a0 Or so I wondered.\u00a0 Aren\u2019t faculty ethical as well?\u00a0 Don\u2019t they claim to be liberal also?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t many of them have personal histories with Vietnam War protests?\u00a0 Why weren\u2019t they<\/em> active in BDS?\u00a0 And the same with the administrators\u2014the nominal \u201cleaders\u201d of the university.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t they be blazing the trail, pushing for BDS on all fronts?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be the best of all messages, from a liberal<\/em> institution to its liberal<\/em> student body: that we refuse to invest in, and profit from, cruelty and injustice?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be a real lesson for the students?<\/p>\n

Oh, no!\u00a0 The faculty\u2014apart from myself and a literal handful of brave individuals\u2014were invisible on the topic; \u201cwe don\u2019t want to get political,\u201d they said.\u00a0 And the university administration was worse: they actively opposed BDS.\u00a0 They began imputing ill motives to student and faculty leaders on BDS; they began rigidly enforcing \u201ccampus security\u201d rules that no one had ever seen before; they worked to marginalize campus support; and they ensured that no word of publicity got out about any BDS actions.\u00a0 (If there is one thing that universities hate, it\u2019s bad publicity.)\u00a0 When pressed for explanations for their resistance, administrators routinely spouted lines about how their investments are \u201cnot political\u201d and how \u201cdonors give money for specific reasons\u201d and therefore, somehow, the university could not divest from Israel\u2014even though they did precisely that to South African apartheid years before.\u00a0 And purely academic boycotts against Israeli scholars or institutions never got so much as a single word of support.<\/p>\n

And this, my liberal friends, was 20 years ago!<\/p>\n

It was also in spending time with our Arab students that I heard murmurings about the \u201cso-called Holocaust.\u201d\u00a0 Whoa, what\u2019s up with that?\u00a0 I did a little digging and quickly realized how little I knew, and also how hard it was to find straight answers to apparently simple questions\u2014questions that no one else apparently considered important.\u00a0 Like:\u00a0 When and how did they determine that 6 million Jews died?\u00a0 Where were they killed?\u00a0 By what means?\u00a0 How did those infamous gas chambers work?\u00a0 And where are the bodily remains today?\u00a0 I was frankly shocked to learn how little clear information was available on this most-important historical event.\u00a0 As I researched the topic, it quickly became obvious that much of the current story was wrong. The many false witnesses, the internal contradictions, the biased and coerced \u201cconfessions,\u201d the technical impossibilities, and the practical absurdities\u2014not to mention the striking fact that claims of \u201c6 million suffering Jews\u201d had been in the news for years, decades, before WW2; all this was highly damning for the conventional story, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

As a now-waning liberal, I assumed that others would be curious about this as well.\u00a0 But when I began to even mention this to my liberal friends, they said things like, \u201cWell, that doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d or, \u201cEveryone knows that the 6-million story is false.\u201d\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Everyone?<\/em>\u00a0 But we all just pretend like it\u2019s true?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 To placate whom?\u00a0 And if it doesn\u2019t matter, why is it thrust into our face so often?\u00a0 Why are Holocaust books mandatory reading in our schools?\u00a0 Why does every third film seem to have some reference to Hitler, Nazis, or the Holocaust?\u00a0 Why is simply asking questions about it prohibited by law in 19 countries?\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 My liberal friends had no good answers.<\/p>\n

A bit more digging on my part, and other troubling questions arose.\u00a0 Why does the US pump $3 billion to $6 billion annually to Israel as \u201cforeign aid\u201d?\u00a0 Why do we so often vote alone, or with a handful of client nations, with Israel in the UN?\u00a0 Why do we provide them with diplomatic cover?\u00a0 Why are so many of their enemies also our<\/em> enemies?\u00a0 Why are so many of our recent military engagements targeted against Israel\u2019s enemies?<\/p>\n

Thus I ran directly into the Israel Lobby\u2014otherwise known as the Zionist Lobby or the Jewish Lobby.\u00a0 I quickly realized that most of the major players in the Israel Lobby were Zionist Jews, that most American Jews were Zionists, and that there was near-unanimity that Jewish interests must be protected at home and Israeli interests protected abroad.\u00a0 This unanimity is transferred to Congress, where, depending on the context, between 90% and 100% of Representatives and Senators regularly vote in favor of Jewish\/Israeli interests.\u00a0 This is not speculation; it is a matter of public record.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Money.\u00a0 I soon learned that at least 25% of Republican money, and at least 50% of Democratic money, comes from Jewish sources<\/a>.\u00a0 This, to me, was truly astonishing.\u00a0 According to Open Secrets<\/a>, there are something like 13,800 lobbying organizations in Washington.\u00a0 And yet, of all these, one group<\/em> donates between 25% and 50% of all campaign funds.\u00a0 Imagine if you were living off regular donations from 13,000 wealthy friends; and that one friend<\/em> consistently gave you half<\/em> of all your money each year, and that the other half was divided amongst the other 12,999 friends.\u00a0 Which friend would be your best<\/em> friend?\u00a0 Who would you listen to the most?\u00a0 Who would you most like to please?\u00a0 No surprises there.<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Tucker Carlson from last year (20 June 2024), US representative Thomas Massie made some interesting statements about the leading component of the Jewish Lobby, AIPAC.\u00a0 Every congressman, he said, has an \u201cAIPAC minder\u201d or \u201cbabysitter,\u201d who watches over you, tracks what you do, and makes sure you do \u201cthe right thing.\u201d\u00a0 And if you don\u2019t do \u201cthe right thing,\u201d they will slander you in the press and they will fund a pro-Israel opponent in your next election.\u00a0 No other lobby does anything close to this.\u00a0 Perhaps you should watch this interview, my liberal friends\u2014but no!\u00a0 You absolutely hate<\/em> Tucker Carlson!\u00a0 Neither he nor his guests can possibly have anything of value to say!<\/p>\n

We need to realize what this means.\u00a0 It means we have one lobby that works on behalf of American Jews, who constitute perhaps 2% of the US population, and that their interests totally dominate everyone else\u2019s interests:\u00a0 seniors, students, other minorities, the needy, the disabled, environmentalists.\u00a0 And I mean, totally<\/em> dominate; unless your interests happen to align with American Jews, you have almost no chance of getting a fair hearing.\u00a0 It also means that we have one American lobby that works, globally, on behalf of Israeli Jews, who constitute some 0.19% of the world\u2019s population, to the detriment of the remaining 99.8% of humanity.\u00a0 What\u2019s up with that, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Are you satisfied with that situation?\u00a0 Is it fair?\u00a0 Is it just?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 What are you doing about it?<\/p>\n

Perhaps you have been a bit too bamboozled by our American, and Western, media\u2014a media that uniformly operates on behalf of Jewish and Israeli interests. Do you doubt me?\u00a0 Why are no anti-Israeli or anti-Jewish viewpoints or opinions allowed in any branch of mainstream media?\u00a0 Why has that been true, for decades, at least?\u00a0 Do you need proof?\u00a0 Why are all five of the major American media conglomerates\u2014ABC\/Disney, Warner Discovery, NBC\/Universal, Fox Corp, and Paramount\u2014owned or operated by Jews or Zionists?\u00a0 (Shall we check the names?\u00a0 Oh, no, never that!)\u00a0 Why are the top five Hollywood studios\u2014Disney, Universal, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Warner Bros.\u2014run by Jews or Zionists?\u00a0 In a fair and just world, only 2% of these corporations would be Jewish-owned\u2014which means, in all likelihood, none of them; but in fact, Jews own or manage all<\/em> of them.\u00a0 Why is that, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Do you not care?\u00a0 Do you not believe in fairness and justice?<\/p>\n

My friends:\u00a0 Let\u2019s bring this up to the present day.\u00a0 It is clear and beyond dispute that Jews in America, and in Europe, have a virtual monopoly on the press, on academia, and on our so-called democratic governments.\u00a0 Any monopoly is dangerous, but a Jewish monopoly is deeply and profoundly dangerous, as the world can see in Gaza.\u00a0 To date, officially over 50,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed.\u00a0 Likely the actual numbers are double or triple that.\u00a0 Some may have been armed fighters, but surely 95% were unarmed civilians.\u00a0 And yet America, and the world, does nothing, says nothing.\u00a0 Mass murder and genocide before our eyes, and\u2026nothing.\u00a0 Worse than nothing:\u00a0 America supplies weapons and cash to the killers, and political cover in the UN, and the world does\u2026nothing.<\/p>\n

What are individual Jews doing?\u00a0 Worse than nothing; they support<\/em> the action.\u00a0 According to surveys from last year, around 80% of American Jews<\/a> and perhaps 90% of Israeli Jews<\/a> support the ongoing war effort.\u00a0 Yes, they want their (now) 59 hostages back, but they think nothing of the 50 or 100 Gazans killed every day<\/em>, on average, over the course of the year-and-a-half slaughter.\u00a0 \u201cCease fire for the hostages!\u201d they scream; but they want neither true peace nor true justice.\u00a0 If and when they get their hostages, then the ethnic slaughter will surely press ahead unimpeded.\u00a0 It is Old Testament vengeance in the 21st\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

And what are you<\/em> doing about all this, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Wringing your hands?\u00a0 Feeling badly?\u00a0 Silently condemning it?\u00a0 How is that working?<\/p>\n

And what are you saying or doing to those who are<\/em> taking serious, direct action against the Jewish monopoly that has a stranglehold on America and Europe?\u00a0 Are you helping those people?\u00a0 Praising them?\u00a0 No! \u00a0You are condemning them!<\/em>\u00a0 You call them \u2018evil,\u2019 \u2018Nazis,\u2019 and \u2018far-right extremists\u2019!\u00a0 You call them \u2018haters,\u2019 \u2018bigots,\u2019 and best of all, \u2018White supremacists\u2019!\u00a0 Why, the Jewish Lobby couldn\u2019t do a better job themselves if they tried!\u00a0 And there you are, doing their job for them, attacking those who might expose the danger.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Are Jews threatening you?\u00a0 Holding a gun to your head?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Then why do you work so hard on their behalf\u2014my \u201cliberal\u201d friends?<\/p>\n

Here is how I see it:\u00a0 The state of affairs in the world today is like a big sandbox.\u00a0 And the powers-that-be need to contain your thinking and your outrage, and so they direct it away from the actual cause\u2014themselves\u2014and toward other things.\u00a0 In this way, they confine you to half the sandbox.\u00a0 The liberal, leftist Jews who donate to, and run, the Democratic Party, and who monopolize the mainstream media, want you to see the Republicans, or Trump, or conservatives, or White men, as the enemy.\u00a0 They do everything in their power to demonize these groups.\u00a0 One need only glance at CNN, or MSNBC, or the New York Times<\/em>, or the Washington Post<\/em>, to see that this is true.\u00a0 For their part, the \u2018right wing\u2019 media (Fox) and the Republicans are just as anxious to demonize the leftist Democrats; again, watch any episode of Fox\u2019s evening commentary shows.<\/p>\n

But strangely enough, both parties, who hate each other with such vehemence, are in agreement on just one special issue:\u00a0 Jewish and Israeli interests, which they both bend over backward to serve.\u00a0 Recall any presidential debate of the past few decades: all candidates and all parties are emphatic that they alone are the \u201ctrue friends of Israel,\u201d and that they alone can best tackle \u201cthe evil of anti-Semitism.\u201d\u00a0 And you, the viewer, are left with choosing between a left-leaning \u201cfriend of Israel\u201d and a right-leaning \u201cfriend of Israel.\u201d\u00a0 Some choice, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

In this way, they trap you in half the sandbox: You only see the enemy of their choosing: either \u201cthe right\u201d or \u201cthe left.\u201d\u00a0 But never \u201cthe Jewish Lobby.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s the half that you are missing.\u00a0 In fact, you are not even allowed to know that that half exists.\u00a0 Anyone who dares venture there is, by definition, a \u201cfar-right extremist\u201d and \u201ca hater\u201d; and since both the left and the right agree on that, it seems like a unanimous decision.\u00a0 Clever, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

But the Gaza war is a true eye-opener, isn\u2019t it, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Your fellow liberals have been raised from birth to be hyper-sensitive to everyone\u2019s needs, everyone\u2019s concerns, everyone\u2019s feelings.\u00a0 Slavery was wrong (of course); colonialization was wrong (yes); and it is the Whites of the world who inflict \u201csystemic racism\u201d on all the people of color (wrong).\u00a0 Every oppression of a \u201cperson of color,\u201d every attack on a vulnerable minority, was seen as the gravest of social ills\u2014until Palestine.\u00a0 Then, everything changed.\u00a0 There, the \u201cpeople of color\u201d are now terrorists, or terrorist sympathizers, or supporters of terrorism, and thus need to be shot, bombed, burned, and otherwise destroyed by the righteous Israeli Jews.\u00a0 The 2.4 million people of Gaza are now to be held collectively responsible for the actions of a few resistance fighters.\u00a0 They will be moved here, moved there, and finally removed, as the Israeli Jews complete their ethnic cleansing.\u00a0 And they will do so with the support of 80% of American Jews and 90% of Israeli Jews.<\/p>\n

And what if you should object to these state crimes, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re screwed.\u00a0 Should you choose to join an encampment on your local campus, the university police will haul you off to jail, perhaps expel you from school, and perhaps get you fired\u2014as happened<\/a> to one young Arabic lady just last week, at my own esteemed alma mater.\u00a0 Also, the local Hillel Jewish students<\/a> will photograph you, identify you, and post your personal information online, just to make it harder for you to get a job, join a social group, or become active in any way.\u00a0 And if you happen to be a foreign student, or a foreigner of any kind, you risk getting booked and deported\u2014by our Jewish-friendly president Trump.\u00a0 All for protesting a genocide!<\/p>\n

So:\u00a0 Where does this leave us, my liberal friends?\u00a0 Or perhaps you no longer call yourselves \u2018liberal\u2019?\u00a0 A wise move, my friends!\u00a0 But are you now conservative?\u00a0 Oh no, of course not\u2014another wise move.\u00a0 You are coming to learn that simplistic, dualistic, Manichean terms like \u2018liberal,\u2019 \u2018conservative,\u2019 \u2018left,\u2019 and \u2018right,\u2019 are now almost meaningless, so distorted has their meaning become.\u00a0 Perhaps you are learning that the power structures of America and the West have such a notable Judean orientation that this fact alone becomes decisive in thinking about social dilemmas and social conflicts.\u00a0 Perhaps you are learning that those \u201cliberals\u201d in academia and politics are really only liberal when it serves their interests; otherwise, they become positively authoritarian.\u00a0 Perhaps you are learning that Israeli brutality in Gaza is not a consequence of one bad leader but rather a reflection of the mindset of an entire people.\u00a0 Perhaps you are learning that \u2018far right\u2019 is a functional synonym for \u2018opponent of the Jewish Lobby.\u2019\u00a0 And perhaps you are learning that many on the \u2018far right\u2019 are at least partially justified in their righteous indignation at the national and global state of affairs.<\/p>\n

For my part, call me a true liberal<\/em>: from the root word liber<\/em>, \u2018free.\u2019\u00a0 I prefer to live free, think free, speak free, and act free.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t do this in present-day America, or in present-day Europe, or else the Jewish-oriented powers-that-be will come down upon me with an Old Testament vengeance.\u00a0 This is a fact.\u00a0 Therefore, let us (1) openly state this fact, (2) openly state our objection to this fact, and (3) work to create a society and a world where this is not<\/em> a fact.\u00a0 What could be more important than that\u2014my liberal friends?<\/p>\n

David Skrbina, PhD, is a former senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 He is the author or editor of several books, including The Metaphysics of Technology<\/em> (2015) and most recently, The Jesus Hoax<\/em> (2nd<\/sup> edition, 2024)<\/p>\n

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