An Israeli Perspective

Americans have no problem offering their opinions when they have no facts.  Antisemitism is a perfect case in point.  Antisemitism is so old there must be some truth to it.  There are so few Jews and they don't fight back.  Worst case scenario, you say something and he takes offense and you didn't even know he was Jewish.  Good people everywhere hurled the charge of "war crimes" at the state of Israel before she even declared statehood.

The following is a response to a careless young man who didn't know what he was talking about.  One wonders just how long we must wait for young men to grow up and take responsibility for the words they speak.

End Notes from Stop the Steal

Ben's 2nd book, Stop the Steal, is only available in paperback.  Which makes viewing the sources noted in the End Notes a bit of a problem to find.  So, here, the solution.

1.   https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_affiliations_of_registered_voters
2.   https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Congressional_approval_rating
3.   https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state
4.   You will find little evidence online for this assertion.  I contend that Big Money rarely impacts elections’ outcomes, it rather follows winners into their offices.
5.   a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”  See the film Stand and Deliver, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094027/
6.   Aristotle, Jefferson, and nearly every serious philosopher of politics and democracy
7.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxdaU9AsnU
8.   https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all
9.   https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#Definition
11. https://citizensandscholars.org/resource/national-survey-finds-just-1-in-3-americans-would-pass-citizenship-test/
12. falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson, who nevertheless preached it until he became president
13. Unfit -- https://benpaine76.blogspot.com/2021/01/unfit.html
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman_1948_presidential_campaign#Whistle-stop_tour
15. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list
16. “There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them"