A Lot is Happening in America

I wrote this a week ago and kept it in my drafts, but I'm sharing it now in the hopes of connecting with other Jews like me.

This post will be quite different from most. It’s neither poetry nor a highly formal essay, but rather a stream of consciousness vent. Perhaps it’s petty to hold the past against those who hurt us, but I can’t help it—I’m a Jew and a Cancer sun. It’s in my nature.

We spent the last year and a half begging far-left goys to sympathize with the world’s only Jewish state, showing them countless examples of where their logic fell flat, or where their understanding of history fell short. We were gaslit into oblivion by the same people who championed the rights of every minority under the sun for the past 15 years, a handful of them being from our own tribe. There was an online overtaking of the largest platform used by the US population—TikTok—with influential creators encouraging an impressionable generation that spent their formative teen years online to vote 3rd party, or to abstain from voting altogether.

My whole life I’ve seen people win or lose elections mostly based on the electoral college, a system I’ve always thought to be unfair and outdated, but we’ll save that for another time. Although many want to believe that voting 3rd party is what caused Trump’s win, a quick look at the numbers proves otherwise. For the first time in my life, I saw an election lost entirely due to the lack of voter turnout.

As a former far-leftist myself, this shocked me. Despite being out of the pits of the Qatar-to-American-uni propaganda machine, there are still many illusions I’m ridding myself of. It’s quite common in leftist spaces to hear “my vote won’t matter anyway”, using very real issues such as gerrymandering and the electoral college as shields to justify decisions that fuel moral righteousness. These creators who were quick to point the finger at their enemies encouraged a large swath of Gen Z to stay home, resulting in a victory for the worst person possible for their cause. Turns out voter turnout does matter, and we learned in the worst way possible

There is a nihilism to this extremism that bewilders me to my core. These words—genocide, apartheid, gerrymandering, decolonization— have been completely bastardized and stripped of their intended meaning. They were introduced to the zeitgeist as a way to build awareness, not cause destruction. They were intended to point out a flaw to fix, not used to justify nihilistic and careless behavior. There is truly no world in which Trump’s presidency and a majority Republican House & Senate creates safety for any minority group. While I know many leftists couldn’t care less about the Jewish people (unless someone on the right is antisemitic), I remain deeply confused as to why these pro-Pali creators ran an entire smear campaign against Kamala Harris, many even celebrating her loss, while doing absolutely nothing to oppose Donald Trump. Did they become so hyperfixated on proving the corruption of the Democratic party that they forgot every election inevitably has an outcome? Perhaps the misogyny inherent in Palestinian culture, which seemingly took the reigns of defining Leftism this year, seeped through under the guise of “liberation”. Or worse—could there be a subconscious desire among ‘liberation for all’-Westerners to perpetuate Palestinian suffering, rooted in the identity and community formation that emerged from it? Who would they be without this cause to amplify themselves through?

Whatever the case may be, the fact that we never saw the same sort of civil commotion outside of the RNC or Trump rallies is truly, in every sense of the word, absurd.

And now, here we are. January 20th has come and gone. Trump has declared a national emergency at our southern border, and issued pardons for those involved in January 6th. There are only 2 genders and he’s made his plans of rolling back comprehensive history lessons in public education very clear. America is the best. The toughest. The strongest most powerful most masculine energy manly man there ever was! There’s finally a ceasefire and hostage deal, yes, but my bets are on the ceasefire being as temporary as joy itself. With Trump’s ethos of “re-establishing law and order”, I doubt it’ll be long before he issues Bibi a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants. There is absolutely no outcome in which Trump creates safety for the people of Gaza. None. So why did the Free Palestine movement, which terrorized Jews—err, Zionists—to no end and propped up Palestinians as the perfect angels of our time, push the public to the worst possible end result for the people they want to protect?

Besides the aforementioned subconscious desires, I truly believe there were larger malevolent forces at play. Yes—I’m talking bots. In the same way Russian bots were able to sway public opinion on the right, I’m willing to bet everything I have that the same tactic was used on the left. Perhaps Russia? Qatar? Iran? Who knows. But nothing makes me believe in Dead Internet Theory more than what I saw this past year and a half. Let me be clear, I’m not sure if I fully believe it, but did I notice many identical comments under TikTok videos pre-ban, down to the emojis and punctuation? Absolutely. It’s a classic case of bandwagoning—one we saw tear families apart in 2016 and now, 2024. A genius tactic, really. What better way to divide a society than to play into its weakness of hyper-individualism and the desire of moral superiority? The formula is clear:

1. Everything you’ve been taught is a lie.
2. But don’t worry, this video is here to show you the truth.
3. [Insert video or image with a strong pathos appeal and nothing else]
4. The people around you are willfully ignorant, and it’s up to you to show them the truth.
5. If they ignore the truth, then they are bad and undeserving of compassion.
6. Bad people are subhuman, so causing them harm is justified.

Think of MAGA 2016. Now think of Free Palestine 2024. It feels nearly identical, just in a different font.

In the same way people jeer at cult members as a way of enacting moral superiority, the same can be said about America’s two extremes. The left thinks itself intellectually superior to the right, the right thinks itself logically superior to the left. Both perceive the other to be gullible, and think themselves so different that they couldn’t possibly be tricked like their adversaries are. And so, of course, they are tricked. Meanwhile any attempt to bring this to their awareness causes so much cognitive dissonance that it invokes anger and social punishment toward anyone who dare question their reality. They will cut you out. They’ll say you’re part of the problem. They’ll find every reason to justify this new reality they’ve clung to as a means of identity formation amidst an era of Godlessness, even justifying violence toward members of their own species. And they’ll feel like they’re doing something good.

All of this in mind, there is nothing that has frustrated me more than leftists who suddenly pretend to care about antisemitism because of Elon Musk. Was it a Nazi salute? I fully believe it was, and what’s worse, it was done intentionally. But to see the same people who ignored and justified the mass slaughter, rape, and hostage-taking of Israelis for the last year and a half use this disgusting act as a pawn in their personal PR campaigns is absolutely abhorrent. It brought up so much disgust in me that I spent most of last week waking up with headaches, sobbing to the point of bloodshot eyes, and having night terrors of fleeing the country while having to leave my beloved dog behind. It’s become undeniably clear that the Golden Age of Jews in America is over. The hatred of the far-right and far-left fused into a single form on January 20th and has shown its rotten head. What do we do now that the far-left far-right’s antisemitism survives through the existence of one another? Where does our community fit anymore?

It’s the beauty and tragedy of existing in the modern world: Jews cannot and will never thrive in an extremist culture. It’s against the very nature of who we are. A culture that cannot see the humanity in its intellectual adversary is incapable of seeing it in us. We are challengers, innovators, and dream-weavers. There is no room to be or create amongst goys when their status quo of thought is Puritanical. I don’t mean to be pessimistic, but rather protective. For me, at least, I’ve decided to deactivate my personal Instagram and X accounts. If I don’t ask for a goy’s opinion, I simply don’t want to hear it. There are much better ways to spend my time. I will consume news from reliable outlets, staying vigilant of bias and using the rhetorical tools I’ve acquired through years of study and practice. I will not interact with extremists who are unwilling to engage in good faith. I will preserve my energy and pour it into my community of other lost and politically homeless Jews, and attempt to keep making sense of things. I will not close myself off to intellectual adversaries so long as they remain respectful. And I will find the joy in life through creativity, humor, and art amidst a world of hyper-literalism and ideological smoke screens.

We will survive and prosper as we always have.

L’Chaim 🥂

[Edit from today: My ceramic glazes just arrived and I feel inspired to create mezuzahs and other Judaica. I’ll post pictures of them on here once they’re ready. Week one of antizionist brainrot detox is doing wonders for my mental wellbeing.

Also, thank you so much for 200+ subscribers! I still can’t believe anyone reads these. I truly appreciate you all from the bottom of my heart.]