Arguable - with Jeff Jacoby (10/15/2018)

[Michael Ejercito]

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The Boston Globe
Arguable - with Jeff Jacoby
Monday, October 15, 2018



Life in the fever swamp

Unless you’ve been ensconced in a bathysphere deep in the Marianas Trench
these last few weeks, you’ve been seeing angry Democrats and liberals
throwing furious temper tantrums and encouraging others to continue the
mayhem.

There was the horde yelling at Senator Ted Cruz and his wife until they were
forced to leave the restaurant where they were having dinner. There were the
protesters screeching at Senators Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Bill
Cassidy in Capitol hallways. There was the frenzied mob charging past police
to claw at the doors of the Supreme Court building. There was the
potentially deadly assault on Republican congressional candidate Rudy
Peterson, who was targeted at a festival by a man who screamed obscenities
and tried to stab him with a switchblade .

This left-wing mob mentality isn’t a new development. When conservative
speakers such as Ben Shapiro, Christina Hoff Sommers, or Charles Murray are
invited to speak on college campuses, the threat of violence is so severe
that authorities are forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and
deploy police in riot gear to keep student-gangsters from wreaking havoc. On
a video that went viral this month, an abortion-rights activist aggressively
heckled a pro-life sign holder standing quietly on a street corner,
eventually working himself into such a frenzy that he kicked her to the
ground.



And what grassroots liberals are doing, high-ranking liberals are inciting
them to keep doing.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder: “Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When
they go low, we go high.’ No. No. When they go low, we kick them. That’s
what this new Democratic Party is about."

California Representative Maxine Waters: ““If you see anybody from that
[Trump] cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline
station — you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and
you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Former Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton: “You cannot be civil with
a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for. If we are
fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when
civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the
Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.”

ThinkProgress justice editor Ian Millhiser on Twitter: “[C]onfront
Republicans where they eat, where they sleep, and where they work until they
stop being complicit in the destruction of our democracy.”

To be fair, it isn’t only in the Democratic camp that there have been calls
for violence and mob brutality. Last week, the Republican candidate for
governor in Pennsylvania, Scott Wagner, posted an idiotic video of himself
warning Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to “put a catcher's mask on your face
because I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes.” Outside a
Republican club in Manhattan over the weekend, there was a brawl between
far-left “Antifa” protesters and members of a far-right group, the Proud
Boys.

And of course Donald Trump has been making inflammatory statements that
appear to endorse violence since his campaign for president in 2016. He told
supporters at a rally that he’d like to punch a protester in the face,
encouraged a crowd to “knock the crap” out of hecklers, and repeatedly told
audiences that in the good old days demonstrators would have been carried
out of an arena on stretchers. He warned Republicans leaders that they would
“have riots” if he were denied the presidential nomination. Time and again
he has led crowds in hostile chants aimed at the news media.

But Trump’s over-the-top language, obnoxious as it is, hasn’t led to mobs of
Republicans violently screaming at members of Congress, driving diners out
of restaurants, or kicking peaceful abortion-rights protesters to the
ground. Liberal speakers on college campuses never require SWAT teams to
keep them or their audiences safe. Enraged conservatives haven’t opened fire
at a Democratic baseball practice or tried to stab Democratic candidates at
a town fair.

Mob anger in America today is nearly always a phenomenon of the left. With
one notable recent exception — the white-supremacist rally in
Charlottesville, Va. last year — when a political crowd is rampaging out of
control, it’s a crowd of seething progressives. During the heyday of the Tea
Party movement, the vast conservative crowds were so orderly and polite that
they made a point of carefully cleaning up their trash . The left-wing
Occupy Wall Street movement? Very different.


Left-wing protesters fought with riot police when conservative commentator
Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California Berkeley in 2017.

There has been a torrent of commentary in recent months about the
intensifying incivility and nastiness in American public life. All the
while, the incivility and nastiness has been getting worse. Do voters care?
There have been times in our electoral history when they cared very much,
and took to the polls to rebuke those they held responsible for poisoning
the civic well.

On one such occasion, as the historian Robert Caro describes in his sweeping
biography of Lyndon Johnson, the voters rebuked Republicans for acting like
an enraged mob — and so effective was that rebuke that it swung Texas behind
John F. Kennedy, delivering the White House to the Democratic Party.

The event occurred in Dallas on Nov. 4, 1960, just four days before that
year’s presidential election. Though Johnson — JFK’s running mate — was the
senior senator from Texas and its most powerful political figure, he had
been unable to decisively bring Texas voters behind the Democratic ticket.
If Texas were lost, odds were high that the election would be lost, and
Johnson was haunted by poll numbers that showed Democrats were behind.

But in those last few days before voters went to the polls, Johnson was
blessed with a stroke of fortune: a nasty throng of Republicans at the
Adolphus Hotel, where a Democratic rally, headlined by Lyndon and Lady Bird
Johnson, was to be held. Caro tells the story:

Hearing that the Johnsons would be arriving shortly, [the Republicans]
crowded into the hotel’s lobby, their hatred simmering, joining a group of
placard-carrying men who had been organized by the state’s only Republican
congressman, Bruce Alger of Dallas, and as Lyndon and Lady Bird entered the
lobby, they swarmed around them, shouting and cursing. Alger was raising and
lowering his big sign, “LBJ SOLD OUT TO YANKEE SOCIALISTS,” like a piston,
and it came dangerously close to Lady Bird’s head. One woman snatched the
gloves out of Lady Bird’s hand, and threw them on the floor, and there was
spitting in her direction. At one point she fell several steps behind her
husband, and there was a frightened expression on her fact. Several Dallas
policemen were escorting the Johnsons, but Lyndon told them to stand aside.
. . . It took the Johnsons 30 minutes to negotiate the 75 feet between the
front door of the Adolphus and the elevators that took them up to the
ballroom, where two thousand Democrats were waiting to greet them.

Not everyone who witnessed the scene was sure it had to take that long. “LBJ
and Lady Bird could have gone through that lobby and got on the elevator in
five minutes, but LBJ took 30 minutes to go through that crowd, and it was
all being recorded and played for television and radio and the newspaper,
and he knew it and played it for all it was worth,” says [one Texas
political operative]. . . . Television that evening showed Lady Bird’s
frightened face and Lyndon saying, at the Democratic rally, that he had told
the police to leave because “I wanted to find out if the time had come when
I couldn’t walk with my lady through the corridors of the hotels of Dallas.”


In Caro’s judgment, the mob scene at the Adolphus turned the tide in Texas.
Tens of thousands of Republican voters, mortified at how a crowd of their
party’s members had behaved, shifted to supporting the Democratic ticket.
More Caro:

The next day, the Johnsons flew to Houston. Ashton Gonella [LBJ’s personal
secretary] recalls that “we had been told ahead of time that [Houston] was
really going to be ugly to us because they were very conservative; up to
then, Texas had really not been that much for Kennedy-Johnson.” When the
Johnson plane arrived at the Houston airport, however, “it couldn’t have
been more overwhelming. Everybody had signs: ‘WE APOLOGIZE,’ ‘WE LOVE YOU.’”
And during the remaining time before the election, the Johnsons were greeted
everywhere in Texas with standing ovations.


Theodore Sorensen, JFK’s longtime aide and biographer, agreed. The mob
hostility to which the Johnsons were subjected at the Adolphus Hotel,
Sorensen wrote, “undoubtedly helped switch more than the 23,000 voters who
provided the Democratic margin in Texas.” It was that margin — an electoral
spanking by voters outraged at a single shameful episode of venomous
incivility — that arguably put Kennedy in the Oval Office.

Nearly six decades later, it is impossible to imagine American voters
reacting the same way. Mob anger, especially on the left, has become almost
routine, and it is fueled by taunts from a Republican president devoid of
personal decency and common courtesy. In 1960, there were still norms of
public political behavior; when party loyalists openly trashed those norms,
voters reacted with shock. Today the old norms are in shreds. Leaders urge
their followers to engage in intimidation and menacing aggression. Many of
those followers don’t need to be told twice. Millions more egg them on from
the sidelines, their resentment and self-righteousness steadily sharpened by
malignant social media.

We are all living in a fever swamp, and getting sicker by the day.



100 million immigrants

In absolute numbers, the United States has more immigrants than any country
in the world. About 47 million current US residents were born in other
countries, according to the United Nations. (The UN’s number skews slightly
high, because it includes Puerto Ricans who relocated to the United States
as immigrants, when in fact they are already US citizens.) Roughly one-fifth
of all international migrants in the world today have become Americans. And
some 1 million new immigrants arrive each year, with the largest contingents
coming from, respectively, India, Mexico, and China.




On the other hand, only 13.5% of the total US population is foreign-born.
That’s lower than the percentage of immigrants in the United States in the
late 19th and early 20th century, when the foreign-born population reached
nearly 15%, according to the Migration Policy Institute . And it is lower
than the foreign-born share of other nations. About 22% of Canadians are
immigrants, for example, as are 28% of Australians.

America remains the world’s foremost destination for immigrants, just as it
has for the better part of the last two centuries. It is a commonplace to
refer to the United States as a nation of immigrants (even if the Trump
administration has dropped that phrase from the mission statement of the
federal agency responsible for immigration and naturalization services). At
the same time, most Americans have a visceral opinion on the immigration
controversies of the day — whether the number of newcomers is too high or
too low, whether immigration policy should be changed to favor those with
more advanced skills, whether immigrants weaken or strengthen America’s
cultural values, and so on.

But here’s a different question: How many immigrants have come to America
since the nation’s founding?

The Cato Institute’s David Bier decided to dig in to that question last
week. He concludes that since the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, nearly
100 million foreigners have entered the United States with the intention to
settle permanently. That includes what we now call illegal immigrants (for
most of US history, there was no such category, since immigration was
largely unfettered until the late 1800s). It does not include African slaves
brought involuntarily to the United States between 1783 and the shutting
down of the slave trade in 1808.

Bier shows his calculations, and he explains the estimates he was forced to
make for the years before 1820, when the federal government first began
keeping immigration statistics. Even with the inevitable imprecision, what
is especially striking is the rate at which foreigners poured in to the
United States up until World War I. At times, immigrants were surging to
America in such numbers that they were adding more than 1.5% to the nation’s
population each year. Today, by contrast, new immigrants annually add only
0.3% of the American population.

There is nothing new about would-be Americans streaming to US shores; they
have been doing so since the Founding. Their arrival has always been
controversial — Benjamin Franklin fretted about the impact of German
immigrants in Pennsylvania in the 1700s in much the same way that today’s
restrictionists fret about Latino immigrants in California and the
Southwest. Yet even as Americans fight over immigration policy, immigrants
continue to enrich and nourish America.

“Very few of those 100 million [newcomers] were broadly popular with the
public when they arrived,” writes Bier. “They came nonetheless. They
thrived, and those immigrants — at least those who stuck it out in the face
of harassment and discrimination — and their descendants built the country
that we have today.”

There are always prominent voices insisting that America needs fewer
immigrants — that our immigration influx is too high, that we would be
better off keeping more people out, and that migrants without immigration
visas should be deported. Go back a few generations, though, and the
ancestors of today’s restrictionists were the ones getting off the boats.

There is plenty of room to debate the details of immigration law. But I am
as certain as ever that immigration is America’s growth hormone nonpareil.
There are other nations that, like the United States, enjoy democracy and
civil liberties. There are others that have abundant natural resources.
There are others that are defended by formidable armies and navies. But no
country on Earth save the United States of America has all those assets plus
a centuries-old ethos of absorbing foreign migrants. Which may just explain
why America is the mightiest, richest, most influential nation the world has
ever seen. Not only is America a great nation of immigrants, it is a great
nation because of those immigrants. This is no time to be pulling up the
gangplank or closing the doors.


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Site to see


Amid the internet’s vast ocean of drivel, some websites are alluring islands
of knowledge and discovery. Each week, in “Site to See,” I call attention to
one of these online treasures.

If life on Earth is sapping your enthusiasm, why not take a little time to
consider the vasty deep or the heavens above? This week’s site to see makes
it easy to do both. It is called Sea and Sky [URL: http://www.seasky.org/],
and is a labor of love by J. D. Knight, an amateur astronomer and marine
aquarium hobbyist, who created the site more than 20 years ago “for the sole
purpose of sharing the splendors of the seas and the wonders of the
universe.”

It succeeds admirably. Sea and Sky is essentially two lavishly informative
websites in one: a deep dive into marine life, seascapes, and the history of
ocean exploration, and an equally penetrating flight into the cosmos, space
exploration, and astronomy. You’ll find everything from an interactive
“tour” of the Solar System and a description of astronomy equipment to
detailed descriptions of deep-sea creatures and biographies of famed
oceanographers. There are also collections of quotations about the sky and
the sea, free online games with ocean or outer-space themes, and a calendar
of celestial events that runs through 2030.

Here is the introduction to the site’s section on “Unusual Reef Fishes”:

For millions of years, the seas have been a virtual laboratory for the
process of evolution. The results of nature's experiments can be found
throughout the world's seas. Perhaps nowhere else on Earth have so many
strange and unusual adaptations taken place. The coral reef is a showcase
for these bizarre creatures. Fish species here have developed many different
shapes and abilities. There are fishes here that do not even look like fish.
There are the eels, long skinny fish that look more like snakes. There are
pufferfish that actually expand like balloons to avoid being eaten by
predators. There are the seahorses, which are one of the most unusual fish
designs on the reef. . . . There are even seahorses that look like seaweed.
Camouflage has evolved into an art form here on the coral reef. There are
fishes that look like rocks and fishes that look like plants. Even
experienced divers can be fooled by some of these ingenious disguises. The
art of venom has also reached new heights on the reef. Many undersea
residents have developed strong venoms as a means of protection. Some
species carry enough venom in their bodies to kill several men.





This is a beautiful website, brimming with wonder, curiosity, knowledge, and
awe.


Recommend a website for this feature! Send me the link and a short
description (jeff....@globe.com), and put “Site to See” in the subject
line.



ICYMI

My column yesterday lamented Taylor Swift’s decision to get political. In an
Instagram post that made headlines around the world last week, the pop-music
star endorsed two Democratic candidates for Congress in her home state of
Tennessee. Celebrities and entertainers spout politics all the time, of
course, but Swift was one of the very few superstars who had steadfastly
refused to do so, despite being hectored and criticized by liberals for
keeping her political views to herself. Needless to say, she is free to
comment on anything she likes. But I for one am sorry that the old Taylor
can’t come to the phone anymore, to quote one of her lyrics. America’s
public discourse is stiflingly thick with acrid political fumes; the last
thing we need is even more of the stuff.

In the aftermath of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight, I wrote last
Wednesday about the fallibility of memory and the presumption of innocence.
“As recent events demonstrate, #BelieveWomen and #BelieveSurvivors are
powerful political slogans,” I observed. “But science demonstrates even more
powerfully that when men (or women) are deemed guilty on belief alone —
belief without independent evidence — the results can be horrific.”



The last line

“I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.”
— John Masefield, Sea-Fever (1902)


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On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:48:02 -0700, "Michael Ejercito"
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>The Boston Globe
>Arguable - with Jeff Jacoby
>Monday, October 15, 2018
>

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[NEMO]

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FAKE Loose Cannon <efbe...@gmx.com> wrote:

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Good work... LOL!!

[jew pedophile Ron Jacobson (jew pedophile Baruch 'Barry' Shein's jew aliash]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:48:02 -0700, "NOT Michael Ejercito"
<meje...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>http://view.email.bostonglobe.com/?qs=3dbe34fb944fe966cdd252e4eb340bdacf5d989f7063a90af39c60489a7a3dcbfe4c5ea3dd134aa640fc7c99f840cbb646a7e87a33f18ad17577a1585a8fc26450e6bb6fa4e05abf551ca02c891ee954bef3815be1061fc4
>
>The Boston Globe
>Arguable - with Jeff Jacoby
>Monday, October 15, 2018
>
>
>
>Life in the fever swamp

Sounds like the fetid swamps around Manila that YOU will be returning
to, mong!

Cheers!

RJ (preferred jew aliash)

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are VEEDMUS amongst us and are a gentile. I would not be surprised if
you ever go to Eretz Israel and spout off your non-senseical lies that
a Jew doesn't kill you or a gentile murder you. You are wicked because
you antagonize and lie about the Tzadeckim. The best place for you is
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- neo-jew 'convert' Suzy KKKohen, mocking drug-fucked jew wannabe Y-chi Netfish's
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[Michael Ejercito]

"jew pedophile Ron Jacobson (jew pedophile Baruch 'Barry' Shein's jew
aliash" wrote in message news:00cesdl0bv1ur90m9...@4ax.com...

>On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:48:02 -0700, "NOT Michael Ejercito"
><meje...@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>>
>>The Boston Globe
>>Arguable - with Jeff Jacoby
>>Monday, October 15, 2018
>>
>>
>>
>>Life in the fever swamp

>Sounds like the fetid swamps around Manila that YOU will be returning
>to, mong!

Mangina, wherever you are is much more fetid than Manila!



Michael

[NEMO]

Raping two year old... pimping his parents... sick bastard!