coffin_dodger » Sat Jun 06, 2015 1:14 pm wrote:Why is anti-semetism on the rise, Jakell?
And why are the corrupt, scheming, manipulative, fascist governments we reside under keen to quell it?
I'm not sure if it is. This was position I took on one of AD's threads where the unquestioned assumption was that it definitiely is, I'll try to look that thread up. One of the reasons that find it difficult to determine is the ratio of shrill emoting that surrounds the concept, it's hard to get any usable data that way and come to reliable conclusions. I would avoid this matter by not worrying too much about whether it is increasing or decreasing, but concentrate simply on it's existence.
It is possible that those who tend to regularly fall back on the idea of organised Jewish maleficence (White Nationalists mainly), are becoming more cogent , particularly those who I described earlier as...
jakell » Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:04 am wrote:[...relative to their shallower colleagues, are better read, better writers, better communicators and possessing of a degree of self control and patience...
This, coupled with a decline in the inability of the left to visibly counteract their views (that's if they ever were able) with an equally compelling narrative helps them too. As far as I can see, the only myth the Left has been able to draw on is that of 'Progress', and that is starting to look a bit tatty nowadays.
( I'm resting on the assumption that what really drives people is not rationality, but myth and narrative, regardless of how high minded we like to think we are)