How refreshing! He let come out that these "Occupy Wall Street"ers, for the most part if not entirely, are either disingenous Tea Partiers (which one Michiganian peer of mine showed himself to be on "Geraldo at Large" last night) or racist (e.g., Anti-Charles Payne and -Herman Cain), Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Republicanism people. He also let Sally Kohn and Matt Segal show, sadly, that the Jewish community in the United States still has a long way to go-- like Kohn (obviously a koheinah) and Segal (a sar shel bnei Levi), many Diasporan Jews in America don't get and want to get that one can even be a Jacob Javitts Republican and republican.
As Herman Cain talked about the "old plantation thinking", there's this old shtetl thinking that Jews must be liberal and Democrats-- e.g., look at the haredim who bilk entitlements like crazy. Obviously, by the way, even though much of my family were Jewish (and Jewish Catholic) Democrats (and still are), many (like the late Peter Chokola and his distant cousin Tony Czarnecki, Sr.) refused to let the government pamper them. As liberal as they were (or at least Tony's son Jack is... *shudders*; and Peter Chokola did help pass the "Container Disposal Bill", as I came to learn recently), they didn't let the government pamper them or anyone else.
And they're obviously like their Chernetski patriarchs-- since Peter's grandmother was a Chernetska-- I think, or how else would he be Great-Granddad's once-removed third cousin? In other words, they're very political; and they're part of where I got my sense of, as Marvin Olasky speaks of, "compassionate conservatism".
Geraldo learned and is relearning from those like Jacob Javitts, the Chokolas, and Marvin Olaskly-- and Charles Payne and Herman Cain. I should also add, by the way, that Geraldo is learning too that those who have the "plantation" and shtetl thinking are sadly taking seriously the Oprahesque and URJesque mindset to believe in one's self instead of G-d and to have someone else do one's social justice work for him or her.
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