This new antisemitism should alarm every American. Antisemitism was never before deeply rooted here. America's most fundamental values and traditions included and protected Jews.
I remember an episode of Star Trek, titled “The Omega Glory”, where a civilization uses two of our documents as their sacred writings, one being the Pledge of Allegiance, and the other being the Constitution.
We are just coming out of that dreadful pandemic that made us hide our faces, lock ourselves indoors, and avoid any contact with fellow humans. There was a second pandemic at the same time that went unnoticed for a while, and it seems that we are also coming out of that as well, albeit, more slowly.
I remember when I first became eligible to vote, there was true pride in the whole process. It meant a lot that I could cast my vote and literally make kings out of ordinary politicians.
Every day the word "family" comes up in some conversations. What does it mean? There are more versions of "family" than you might think. A family of penguins or a family of writers, ad infinitem. We speak of every clannish thing as "family."