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Local Republicans Curiously Free of Allegations of Vote Stealing and Impersonation of Public Officials

In a shocking development, research uncovers no allegations of voter manipulation, fraud, or impersonation of public officials amongst Republican challengers for local office in Bridgeport.

“I know these people, the Republican contenders,” says candidate David Herz, who is up against Alfredo Castillo in the 136th. Herz says “We just don’t think it adds ‘street cred’ to get arrested or make ourselves the targets of criminal investigations.”

He adds that blue cities just don’t equate with prosperity. It’s as clear to him as two plus two not equaling five (suggesting he’s read Orwell and learned a lesson or two), and XY genotypes not being girls (he also claims a science background).

“You don’t become a cultural center by trying to become a cultural center,” Herz maintains, alluding to the various attempts of our local politicians to put lipstick on a pig: murals on empty buildings, art shows of the ‘World on Fire.’ “These fires were set by our blue politicians and they have been fanning the flames for sixty odd years.”

“Culture follows industry and wealth creation. Our job is to make of ourselves a hub of industry, it is to educate our children at the highest levels, which can only be done if we encourage and embrace the traditional family structures that have always been the backbones of thriving communities.”

“Stop stealing. Stop blaming. Stop begging for handouts from the state and federal governments.” Herz maintains that people will pick themselves up and make a better world for themselves if that is what is incentivized.

He urges the people Bridgeport to give his colleagues and him a chance.

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Meine lieben deutschen Cousins: Pres. Herz https://twitter.com/PresidentHerz https://davidherz.org/thoughts/german-cousins-de 2025-09-12T03:25:00Z 2025-09-12T03:25:04Z Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Item::$cache_has_content_parts is deprecated in /home/zmaxzvmy/public_html/davidherz.org/thoughts/inc/items/model/_item.class.php on line 4911

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Liebe deutsche Cousins,

Das jüdische Wort für Buße ist Teschuwa. Es ist nur eine vollständige Teschuwa, wenn wir erneut mit derselben Situation konfrontiert werden und uns entscheiden, anders zu handeln. Stellen Sie sich einen Fluss vor, der bereits einmal über die Ufer getreten ist und die umliegenden Felder verwüstet hat. Wahre Buße besteht nicht nur darin, den Schaden zu bedauern oder eine vorübergehende Barriere zu errichten; sie bedeutet, die Anzeichen steigenden Wassers beim nächsten Mal zu erkennen und den Fluss mit Weisheit und Entschlossenheit umzuleiten. Deutschland, meine Cousins, steht heute an einer solchen Zusammenflussstelle. Die Schatten der Vergangenheit — wirtschaftliche Verzweiflung, ideologische Verführung und ungezügelter Extremismus — lauern erneut, in neuen Gewändern getarnt. Teschuwa erfordert keine Lähmung durch Schuld, sondern eine mutige Umleitung hin zu einer Zukunft, die in unseren angeborenen Stärken verwurzelt ist.

Das Judentum verbietet auch, zu stark zu trauern. Man darf sich nicht schneiden oder ritzen als Zeichen der Trauer, eine Glatze machen oder sich die Haare ausreißen. Die Trauer folgt einem Zyklus des Weinens (drei Tage), der Trauerreden (sieben Tage) und Einschränkungen bei verschiedenen anderen Praktiken (einen Monat) sowie Feiern (ein Jahr). Diese alte Weisheit erkennt das menschliche Bedürfnis an, den Verlust zu ehren, doch sie zügelt die Selbstzerstörung. Deutschland hat sein dunkelstes Kapitel — den Holocaust und die NS-Zeit — über Generationen hinweg betrauert, und das zu Recht. Seine Verbrechen sind ein Fleck, den es nicht entfernen kann. Aber übermäßige Trauer ist zu einer kulturellen Narbe geworden, einer selbst zugefügten Wunde, die die Vitalität raubt.

Einerseits ist es, als ob die Nation in einer ewigen Schiwa gefangen wäre, der sieben-tägigen Trauerzeit, unfähig, aufzustehen und ihren Platz unter den Lebenden wieder einzunehmen. Anekdoten gibt es zuhauf von Nachkriegsdeutschen, die in ihrem Eifer zur Sühne den nationalen Stolz so sehr unterdrückten, dass es zu kulturellem Gedächtnisverlust kam, zum Beispiel der junge Berliner in den 1960er Jahren, der Familienporträts seines Großvaters, eines bloßen Soldaten, abriss, aus Angst vor jeglicher Verbindung zum Regime, nur um später zu bedauern, dass er das vollere Gewebe seines Erbes ausgelöscht hatte — Ingenieure, Dichter und Philosophen, die Kathedralen bauten, nicht nur Waffen und Konzentrationslager. Es ist Zeit, den Zyklus zu vollenden: Trauern, ja, aber dann eine neue Welt auf den Schultern derer schaffen, die wir verloren haben.

Andererseits gibt es eine Generation, die es resentimentvoll empfindet, an diese Vergangenheit erinnert zu werden, die sie nicht verstehen kann und mit der sie sich nicht identifizieren will, die gelernt hat, dass es keinen G-tt gibt, und die erneut bereit ist, die Juden für den aktuellen Zustand der Welt verantwortlich zu machen.

Europa, Amerika und das meiste, was groß in der Welt ist, stammt aus unserer gemeinsamen jüdisch-christlichen Tradition. Es ist eine Tradition der Zusammenarbeit, eines gewissen Opfers heute für ein größeres Morgen. Es ist eine Tradition der fleißigen Anwendung der besten Teile von sich selbst zur Weiterentwicklung der Welt. Es ist eine Tradition, die das Besondere an jedem Menschen ehrt, während sie ihn auch zur Übernahme von Verantwortung für seine Gemeinschaft aufruft.

Diese Tradition ist ein großes Orchester, die Streicher weben Melodien der Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit, die Blechbläser verkünden die Macht der Industrie und Innovation, die Holzbläser hauchen den Geist der Inspiration und des Glaubens ein, und die Schlaginstrumente unterstreichen mit rhythmischen Ausbrüchen der Kreativität und Kunst — alles harmonierend unter einem göttlichen Dirigenten. Deutschland war ein Virtuose in diesem Ensemble, seine christlichen Wurzeln reichen tief von der reformatorischen protestantischen Leidenschaft im Norden bis zu den katholischen Kernländern Bayerns, und förderten eine historische Toleranz, die in ihren besten Zeiten Protestanten, Katholiken und Juden gleichermaßen umfasste. Dieser Geist des Zusammenlebens, verkörpert in Figuren wie Martin Luther, der kirchliche Korruption herausforderte, und Moses Mendelssohn, der aufklärerisches Denken mit jüdischer Tradition in Berlin verband, trieb eine Nation voran, in der vielfältige Glaubensrichtungen zu einem kulturellen und intellektuellen Aufblühen beitrugen.

Deutschland gab uns Bach, dessen Fugen Komplexität in göttliche Ordnung webten, und Beethoven, der taub und trotzig Symphonien komponierte, die den Triumph des menschlichen Geistes über Widrigkeiten widerspiegelten. Das sind keine bloßen historischen Fußnoten; sie verkörpern die deutschen Eigenschaften von Präzision, Ausdauer und tiefer Tiefe — Eigenschaften, die Innovationen vorantrieben, von der katholischen Gutenberg-Presse bis zur Relativitätstheorie des Juden Einstein.

Unsere Kultur schätzt Industrie, Effizienz und Innovation, wie den unerschütterlichen Fluss der Autobahn und die Autos, die Sie darauf setzen, sowie eine Liebe zur Natur, die in den romantischen Wanderungen Goethes durch den Schwarzwald evident ist, auf der Suche nach Einheit zwischen Mensch und Kosmos. Das sind die Fäden der Größe, die in ein neues Gewebe der Außergewöhnlichkeit gewoben werden müssen, explizit schöpfend aus Deutschlands christlichem Erbe ethischer Strenge, gemeinschaftlicher Wohltätigkeit und erlösender Gnade.

Wir teilen, was Sie das “Alte Testament” nennen. Ob Sie glauben, dass es das Wort G-ttes ist oder nicht, es ist die Destillation tiefer und alter Weisheit, die sich immer wieder als wahr oder wahr-genug erwiesen hat. Und während die Bibel pervertiert und korrumpiert worden sein mag und Böses als Priester und Rabbiner paradieren sah, ist das ein Problem des Boten und nicht der Botschaft. Die Ideale, die sie repräsentiert, ob in Ihrem Jesus und seinen Aposteln oder in unserem Abraham, Yitzhak und Yaakov, sind es, die uns die wundersame Welt gebracht haben, in der wir leben. Im Christentum sind diese Patriarchen Modelle des Glaubens — Abrahams unerschütterliches Vertrauen in G-ttes Versprechen, Isaaks stille Unterwerfung, Jakobs transformative Kampf. Aber wie wir früher besprochen haben, könnten ihre christlichen Gegenstücke Petrus sein, der Fels des kühnen Glaubens; Jakobus, der Märtyrer der standhaften Ausdauer; und Johannes, der Apostel der göttlichen Liebe. Diese Figuren erinnern uns daran, dass Unvollkommenheit das Ideal nicht aufhebt; Petrus' Verleugnung wurde von Erlösung gefolgt, ähnlich wie Deutschlands Nachkriegsrekonstruktion. Die Botschaft bleibt bestehen: ein Aufruf zu ethischem Leben, Gemeinschaft und Überwindung basaler Instinkte, verwurzelt in den christlichen Prinzipien, die Deutschland einst durch Kathedralen, Klöster und moralische Lehren einigten, die soziale Reformen inspirierten.

Die Führung ist klar, und ein Teil davon ist nur eine Erinnerung an unsere Naturen: Mann und Frau schuf Er sie, ihre Aufgabe, aneinander zu kleben, fruchtbar zu sein und sich zu vermehren. Jedes lebende Wesen, unter den geeigneten Bedingungen zur Fortpflanzung, tut das. Einige paaren sich fürs Leben. Jede Mutter wird das unter Risiko und Kosten für sich selbst. Jeder von uns ist hier, weil unsere Mutter dieses Risiko eingegangen ist. Und jede Mutter hat dieses Risiko eingegangen, wissend, dass ihr Kind den Schritten des Ideals folgen könnte oder von einer dunkleren Seite verführt werden könnte.

Trotzdem ist es das Eingehen dieses Risikos, das die Welt voranbringt. Und wenn es im richtigen Geist getan wird, und oft sogar im falschen, berichten diejenigen, die das tun, von mehr Zufriedenheit im Leben. Diejenigen, die diesen Weg wählen, investieren einfach anders in die Zukunft. Denken Sie an die Anekdote einer bayerischen Familie in den 1950er Jahren: inmitten der Trümmer des Krieges wählte ein junges Paar wie die Müllers aus München, zu heiraten und Kinder zu haben, trotz Knappheit, und pflanzten Samen, die zum Wirtschaftswunder wuchsen — dem wirtschaftlichen Wunder. Ihr “Buy-in” war wörtlich: Schweiß und Ersparnisse in Familie und Gemeinschaft investieren, was Generationen von Innovatoren hervorbrachte.

Heute liegt die Geburtenrate Deutschlands bei 1,35 Kindern pro Frau, weit unter dem Erhaltungsniveau. Ehe und Familie werden nicht als Gaben des Göttlichen gesehen, sondern als Lasten. Das ist verkehrt herum.

Unsere Stärke als Menschen liegt in der tiefen Fähigkeit, uns anzupassen und zu wachsen, über Krisen hinauszuwachsen, die einst unüberwindbar schienen. Wir sollten diese Stärke mehr anerkennen und sie als Kern unseres jüdisch-christlichen Erbes feiern, anstatt sie zu mindern. Zu oft haben wir unsere Sorge um Menschen — um das Gedeihen menschlicher Leben — durch eine obsessive Sorge um eine indifferente Mutter Erde verdrängt, als ob die gewaltigen Zyklen des Planeten sich um unsere Ängste scheren würden. Vor mehr als 50 Jahren warnten Umweltaktivisten vor einem drohenden Kollaps aufgrund von Überbevölkerung. Der amerikanische Biologe Paul Ehrlich, der diese Idee im Westen durch sein 1968 erschienenes Buch “The Population Bomb” popularisierte, prognostizierte, dass Hunderte Millionen in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren verhungern würden, während die Weltbevölkerung auf 4 Milliarden zusteuerte. (Bemerkenswert ist, dass der Bericht des Club of Rome von 1972 “Limits to Growth”, der diese Ängste vor Ressourcenerschöpfung und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenbruch widerspiegelte, erhebliche Finanzierung von der deutschen Volkswagen-Stiftung erhielt, was die frühe deutsche Beteiligung an solchen Diskussionen hervorhebt.) Diese düsteren Prophezeiungen, obwohl gut gemeint, übersahen die menschliche Erfindungsgabe — dieselbe Anpassungsfähigkeit, die Wüsten in Ackerland verwandelt und Energie aus dem Atom gewonnen hat.

Tragischerweise haben zu viele Deutsche diese Ängste internalisiert, wählen sie, sich nicht fortzupflanzen als ihren “Beitrag” zum Umweltschutz, und entscheiden sich stattdessen dafür, zu protestieren, Fortschritt zu behindern und sogar Kunst zu zerstören, indem sie sich in disruptiven Akten der “Verzweiflung” an Asphalt in Straßen und Galerien kleben, wie bei Gruppen wie Letzte Generation zu sehen.

Lassen Sie uns diese Energie umleiten: Der Kleber und Asphalt selbst, den diese Protestierenden verwenden, um sich in Protest an Straßen und Galerien zu befestigen, repräsentieren die Früchte von Wissenschaft, Ingenieurwesen und menschlichem Geist, die genutzt werden können, um unsere Umstände anzugehen. Wir können und sollten menschliche Lösungen und Anpassungen für eine bessere Welt schmieden, die sowohl der Menschheit als auch der Umwelt zugutekommen. Dieses Engagement für die Zukunft könnte sehr wohl Ehe und Familie umfassen, eine Rückkehr zur Schönheit in der Schöpfung und das edle Opfer, das uns über bloße Überleben hinaushebt.

Es gibt keine Ehre darin, nationalen Selbstmord zu begehen. Das bringt uns an den Abgrund, den wir konfrontieren müssen: Die moderne Toleranz gegenüber dem Aufstieg des Islam in Europa hallt die Zulassung des Aufstiegs der Nazi-Partei in den 1930er Jahren wider. Damals schufen wirtschaftliche Turbulenzen durch die Große Depression, Hyperinflation und die Fragilität der Weimarer Republik fruchtbaren Boden für Extremismus. Viele Deutsche, müde und desillusioniert, tolerierten die NS-Propaganda, Straßengewalt und den schrittweisen Abbau von Freiheiten und sahen sie als notwendige Korrektur zum Chaos. Sparmaßnahmen schürten Ressentiments, und Eliten unterschätzten die Bedrohung, was Hitler erlaubte, durch legale Mittel wie das Ermächtigungsgesetz Macht zu konsolidieren.

Ähnlich werden die heutigen Deutschen durch explodierende Energiekosten in Sparsamkeit gezwungen, getrieben durch Klima-Alarmismus und Politiken wie die Energiewende, die Industrie und Innovation ersticken, zu Arbeitsplatzverlusten in Sektoren wie Chemie und Fertigung führen, wirtschaftliche Stagnation, verschlechterte globale Verschmutzung durch verlagerte Emissionen und schmutzigere Stromproduktion in Deutschland sowie erhöhte Abhängigkeit von autoritären Akteuren wie Russland (früher für Gas) und China (für kritische Mineralien und Solarpaneele).

Darüber hinaus brodelt wachsendes Ressentiment über das zunehmende Einmischen des bürokratischen Staates, der Ressourcen für eine nicht-beitragende, destabilisierende islamische Asylgemeinschaft priorisiert — Wohnraum, Wohlfahrt und Dienste umleitet — gegenüber seinen eigenen bedürftigen Bürgern, die unter diesen wirtschaftlichen Druck geraten. Dieser Mix aus wirtschaftlicher Frustration und wahrgenommener Ungerechtigkeit könnte, unkontrolliert, denselben Unruhen entzünden, der die Nazi-Partei in den 1930er Jahren gebar, insbesondere inmitten aktueller Trends, Rede zu polizeilich überwachen und stolze deutsche Stimmen zum Schweigen zu bringen.

Die muslimische Bevölkerung Europas ist von etwa 4,9 % im Jahr 2016 auf Prognosen von 7-14 % bis 2050 gewachsen, angetrieben durch höhere Geburtenraten und Migration. Während einige Muslime sich integrieren und wirtschaftlich beitragen, ist die breitere Realität belastet: anhaltende Armut, Segregation und Ideologien, die mit europäischen Werten unvereinbar sind, einschließlich rampantem Antisemitismus und Opposition gegen säkulare Freiheiten. Im Gegensatz zu den Juden, die bestrebt waren, deutscher als die Deutschen zu sein — tief in Kultur, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft assimiliert, während sie sie bereicherten — zeigt der Islam wenig Respekt vor seinen europäischen Gastgebern. Seine Anhänger streben oft nicht an, sich anzupassen, sondern umzustürzen, indem sie eine theokratische Ordnung auferlegen, die alle unterjocht. Das ist ein Böses ähnlich dem Nazismus: Beide Ideologien würden Zivilisationen niederbrennen, um eine verkleinerte, unterdrückerische Welt in ihrem eigenen Bild zu schaffen.

Wenn eine Kultur sich weigert, sich anzupassen, sollten ihre Anhänger dorthin zurückgeschickt werden, woher sie kamen. Das ist nicht die jüdisch-christliche Ethik der Zusammenarbeit und gegenseitigen Hebung, die unsere Größe gebar. Toleranz des Untolerierbaren lädt Ruin ein; Deutsche müssen das Schlimmste unter uns ablehnen, diese invasive Kraft, und den Geist des Wachstums zurückerobern, der im Besten unseres Erbes verkörpert ist.

Im Hintergrund lauert ein größeres Unwohlsein: Die Tendenz der modernen Welt, Krisen als Vorwand für Kontrolle durch nicht gewählte Eliten zu erklären. Sie verkünden Notstände — Klimakatastrophen, das Gespenst des Nationalismus, den Griff der Armut — und bestehen darauf, dass wir Regierungen vertrauen, Erlösung durch Ansprüche zu liefern: Nahrung, Wohnraum, medizinische Versorgung. Das fördert Abhängigkeit und erstickt die Selbstständigkeit, die die jüdisch-christliche Ethik definierte.

Eliten nutzen diese Narrative aus, um Dissens zu unterdrücken, Nationalismus als Xenophobie zu etikettieren, während sie demografische Verschiebungen durch offene Grenzen manipulieren. In Deutschland heute manifestiert sich das in der Drosselung von Freiheiten: strenge Hassredegesetze, die freie Meinungsäußerung einschüchtern, übermäßige Polizeiarbeit bei Versammlungen, die Proteste einschränken (außer sie sind für eine “genehmigte” Sache), und ein Justizsystem, das von Falllasten überwältigt ist und Gerechtigkeit verzögert, alles unter dem Deckmantel des Schutzes der Demokratie vor ihren eigenen Bürgern, die die Quelle ihrer Macht sein sollten. Doch wahre Sicherheit kommt nicht von staatlichen Almosen, sondern von Familien und Gemeinschaften, die in unserer weißen, westlichen, meist männlich geführten jüdisch-christlichen Tradition verwurzelt sind.

Meine Cousins, lassen Sie uns unsere Geschichte umarmen, nicht als Kette, sondern als Leiter zur Größe. Erobern Sie die Eigenschaften von Fleiß, Innovation und moralischer Stärke zurück, die Philosophen wie Kant und Führer wie Bismarck gebaren. Erwecken Sie Ihr christliches Erbe wieder zum Leben, mit seinem Schwerpunkt auf Wohltätigkeit und Gerechtigkeit, um eine neue Außergewöhnlichkeit zu schmieden: eine, die Familie als Pflicht und Privileg feiert. Heiraten Sie, vermehren Sie sich und investieren Sie in die Zukunft — nicht durch Elite-Dekrete, sondern durch persönliches Engagement und das Geschenk Ihrer Kinder.

Stellen Sie sich eine Renaissance vor, in der Deutschlands Beiträge zu Wissenschaft, Kunst und Philosophie wieder so profund sind, dass die Welt Deutsch studiert, um direkt darauf zuzugreifen, wie es vor dem Krieg notwendig war — als Denker von Freud bis Heidegger globale Geister zur deutschen Sprache und den darin ausgedrückten Ideen zogen. Das erfordert, dass Deutsche sich selbst als Antwort sehen und nicht als Krebsgeschwür, den Mantel der besten Teile dessen anzulegen, was es bedeutet, Deutscher zu sein: Präzision im Denken, Resilienz im Geist und ein Antrieb, Ihr Volk als leuchtenden Beitrag zur Welt voranzutreiben.

Hören Sie auf, unsere alte Weisheit zu Ihrem persönlichen Nachteil wegzuwerfen. Schenken Sie sich die größere Zufriedenheit, die aus dem Leben in Harmonie mit diesen zeitlosen Wahrheiten kommt. Wie der Phönix aus der Asche, erheben Sie sich erneuert, tun Sie richtige Teschuwa und die Welt wird triumphieren.

Es gibt Ehre auf dem Pfad G-ttes — und größere persönliche Zufriedenheit. Darin liegt auch die Rettung der deutschen Nation — und tatsächlich die Rettung der Welt.

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Dear German Cousins,

The Jewish word for repentance is t'shuva. It is only complete t'shuva when we are confronted with the same situation again and choose to act differently. Imagine a river that has flooded its banks once before, devastating the surrounding fields. True repentance isn't merely regretting the damage or building a temporary barrier; it's recognizing the signs of rising waters the next time and diverting the flow with wisdom and resolve. Germany, my cousins, stands at such a confluence today. The shadows of the past—economic despair, ideological seduction, and unchecked extremism—loom once more, disguised in new garments. T'shuva demands not paralysis in guilt, but bold redirection toward a future rooted in our inherent strengths.

Judaism also prohibits mourning too severely. One is not allowed to cut or gash oneself as a sign of grief, make a bald spot, or tear out one's hair. Grieving follows a cycle of crying (three days), eulogizing (seven), and restrictions on various other practices (a month) and celebrations (a year). This ancient wisdom acknowledges the human need to honor loss, yet it curbs self-destruction. Germany has mourned its darkest chapter—the Holocaust and the Nazi era—for generations, and rightly so. Its crimes are a stain it can not remove. But excessive mourning has become a cultural scar, a self-inflicted wound that saps vitality.

On the one hand, it is as if the nation has been trapped in an eternal shiva, the seven-day mourning period, unable to rise and reclaim its place among the living. Anecdotes abound of post-war Germans who, in their zeal to atone, suppressed national pride to the point of cultural amnesia, for instance the young Berliner in the 1960s who tore down family portraits of his grandfather, a mere soldier, fearing any association with the regime, only to later regret erasing the fuller tapestry of his heritage—engineers, poets, and philosophers who built cathedrals, not just weapons and concentration camps. It's time to complete the cycle: mourn, yes, but then create a new world on the shoulders of those we've lost..

On the other hand is a generation resentful that it is reminded of this past, that can't understand it and won't identify with it, that has been taught that there is no G-d, and that is willing again to blame the Jews for the current state of the world.

Europe, America, and most of what is great in the world, have come from our shared Judaeo-Christian tradition. It is a tradition of cooperation, of a certain sacrifice today for a greater tomorrow. It is a tradition of the diligent application of the best parts of oneself to advancing the world. It is a tradition that honors what is special about each human being while also calling him to share responsibility for his community.

This tradition is a grand orchestra, the strings weave melodies of liberty and freedom, the brass blares forth the power of industry and innovation, the winds breathe the spirit of inspiration and faith, and percussion punctuates with rhythmic bursts of creativity and art—all harmonizing under a divine conductor. Germany has been a virtuoso in this ensemble, its Christian roots running deep from the Reformation's Protestant fervor in the north to the Catholic heartlands of Bavaria, fostering a historical tolerance that, at its best, embraced Protestants, Catholics, and Jews alike. This spirit of coexistence, embodied in figures like Martin Luther challenging ecclesiastical corruption and Moses Mendelssohn bridging Enlightenment thought with Jewish tradition in Berlin, propelled a nation where diverse faiths contributed to a cultural and intellectual flourishing.

Germany gave us Bach, whose fugues wove complexity into divine order, and Beethoven, who, deaf and defiant, composed symphonies that echoed the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. These are not mere historical footnotes; they embody the German characteristics of precision, perseverance, and profound depth—traits that propelled innovations from the Catholic Gutenberg's printing press to the Jew Einstein's relativity.

Ours is a culture prizing industry, efficiency and innovation, like the Autobahn's unyielding flow, and the cars you put upon it, and a love for nature, evident in the Romantic wanderings of Goethe through the Black Forest, seeking unity between man and the cosmos. These are the threads of greatness that must be rewoven into a new tapestry of exceptionalism, drawing explicitly from Germany's Christian heritage of ethical rigor, communal charity, and redemptive grace.

We share what you call the “old testament.” Whether you believe it is the word of G-d or not, it is the distillation of deep and ancient wisdom, proven true, or true-enough, over and over again. And while the bible may have been perverted and corrupted, and has seen evil parade around as priests and rabbis, this is a problem of messenger and not message. The ideals it represents, whether in your Jesus and his Apostles, or in our Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, are what have brought us the miraculous world in which we live. In Christianity, these patriarchs are models of faith—Abraham's unwavering trust in God's promise, Isaac's quiet submission, Jacob's transformative struggle. But as we discussed earlier, their Christian counterparts might be Peter, the rock of bold faith; James, the martyr of steadfast endurance; and John, the apostle of divine love. These figures remind us that imperfection does not negate the ideal; Peter's denial was followed by redemption, much like Germany's post-war reconstruction. The message endures: a call to ethical living, community, and transcendence over base instincts, rooted in the Christian principles that once unified Germany through cathedrals, monasteries, and the moral teachings that inspired social reforms.

The guidance is clear, and some of it is just a reminder of our natures: man and woman He made them, their job to cleave to each other, to be fruitful and multiply. Every living being, given the appropriate conditions to reproduce, does so. Some mate for life. Every mother becomes that at a risk and cost to herself. Every one of us is here because our mother took that risk. And every mother took that risk knowing that her child could choose to follow in the footsteps of the ideal, or could be seduced by a darker side.

Still, it is the taking of that risk that brings the world forward. And when done in the right spirit, and often even when in the wrong, those who go here report more satisfaction in life. Those who choose this path simply buy into the future differently. Consider the anecdote of a Bavarian family in the 1950s: amid the rubble of war, a young couple like the Müllers from Munich chose to marry and have children despite scarcity, planting seeds that grew into the Wirtschaftswunder—the economic miracle. Their “buy-in” was literal: investing sweat and savings in family and community, yielding generations of innovators.

Today, Germany's birth rate languishes at 1.35 children per woman, well below replacement levels. Marriage and family do not occur as gifts of the divine, but as burdens. This is backwards.

Our strength as humans lies the profound ability to adapt and grow, to innovate beyond crises that once seemed insurmountable. We should do more to acknowledge this strength, celebrating it as the core of our Judeo-Christian heritage rather than diminishing it. Too often, we've displaced our concern for people—for the flourishing of human lives—with an obsessive worry about an indifferent Mother Earth, as if the planet's vast cycles care for our anxieties. More than 50 years ago, environmental activists warned of impending collapse due to overpopulation. The American biologist Paul Ehrlich, the popularizer of this idea in the West through his 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s as the world's population approached 4 billion. (Notably, the Club of Rome's 1972 report “Limits to Growth,” which echoed these fears of resource exhaustion and societal breakdown, received significant funding from Germany's Volkswagen Foundation, highlighting early German involvement in such discussions.) These dire prophecies, while well-intentioned, overlooked humanity's ingenuity—the same adaptability that has turned deserts into farmlands and harnessed energy from the atom.

Tragically, too many Germans have internalized these fears, choosing not to reproduce as their “contribution” to the environment, opting instead to protest, impede progress, and even destroy art as they glue themselves to the asphalt in streets and galleries in disruptive acts of “despair,” as seen with groups like Last Generation.

Let us redirect that energy: the very glue and asphalt which these protesters use to attach themselves in protest to the streets and galleries represent the fruits of science, engineering, and human spirit that can be harnessed to address our circumstances. We can and should forge human solutions and adaptations for a better world, benefiting both humanity and the environment. This buy-in to the future might well include marriage and family, a return to beauty in creation, and the noble sacrifice that elevates us beyond mere survival.

There is no honor in committing national suicide. This brings us to the precipice we must confront: the modern tolerance of the rise of Islam in Europe echoes the allowance of the Nazi party's ascent in the 1930s. Then, economic turmoil from the Great Depression, hyperinflation, and the Weimar Republic's fragility created fertile ground for extremism. Many Germans, weary and disillusioned, tolerated the Nazis' propaganda, street violence, and gradual erosion of freedoms, viewing them as a necessary corrective to chaos. Austerity measures fueled resentment, and elites underestimated the threat, allowing Hitler to consolidate power through legal means like the Enabling Act.

Similarly, today's Germans are being forced into austerity by skyrocketing energy costs driven by climate alarmism and policies like the Energiewende, which stifle industry and innovation, leading to job losses in sectors like chemicals and manufacturing, economic stagnation, worsened global pollution through offshored emissions and dirtier power production in Germany, and increased dependency on authoritarian bad actors like Russia (formerly for gas) and China (for critical minerals and solar panels).

Moreover, growing resentment simmers over the bureaucratic state's increasing meddling, prioritizing resources for a non-contributory, destabilizing Islamic asylee community—diverting housing, welfare, and services—over its own needy citizens who face hardships amid these economic pressures. This brew of economic frustration and perceived injustice could, unchecked, ignite the same type of unrest that birthed the Nazi party in the 1930s, especially amid current trends to police speech and silence proud German voices.

Europe's Muslim population has grown from about 4.9% in 2016 to projections of 7-14% by 2050, fueled by higher birth rates and migration. While some Muslims integrate, contributing economically, the broader reality is fraught: persistent poverty, segregation, and ideologies incompatible with European values, including rampant anti-Semitism and opposition to secular freedoms. Unlike the Jews, who strove to be more German than the Germans—assimilating deeply into culture, science, and society while enriching it—Islam shows scant respect for its European hosts. Its adherents often seek not to adopt but to overthrow, imposing a theocratic order that subjugates all. This is an evil akin to Nazism: both ideologies would burn down civilizations to make a diminished, oppressive world in their own image.

If a culture refuses to adapt, its adherents should be returned to whence they came. This is not the Judeo-Christian ethic of cooperation and mutual uplift that birthed our greatness. Tolerance of the intolerable invites ruin; Germans must reject the worst among us, this invasive force, and reclaim the spirit of growth embodied in the best of our heritage.

Lurking in the background is a larger malaise: the modern world's tendency to declare crises as pretexts for control by unelected elites. They proclaim emergencies—climate catastrophes, nationalism's specter, poverty's grip—and insist we trust governments to deliver salvation through entitlements: food, housing, medical care. This fosters dependency, stifling the self-reliance that defined Judeo-Christian ethics.

Elites exploit these narratives to suppress dissent, labeling nationalism as xenophobia while engineering demographic shifts through open borders. In Germany today, this manifests in throttling liberties: stringent hate speech laws that chill free expression, overzealous policing of assemblies that restrict protests (unless they are for an "approved" cause), and a judiciary overwhelmed by caseloads delaying justice, all under the guise of protecting democracy from its own citizens, which should be the fount of its power. Yet true security comes not from state handouts, but from families and communities rooted in our white, western, usually male-lead, Judaeo-Christian tradition.

My Cousins, let us embrace our history, not as a chain but as a ladder to greatness. Reclaim the characteristics of diligence, innovation, and moral fortitude that birthed philosophers like Kant and leaders like Bismarck. Revive your Christian heritage, with its emphasis on charity and justice, to forge a new exceptionalism: one that celebrates family as both duty and privilege. Marry, multiply, and invest in the future—not through elite decrees, but through personal commitment and the gift of your children.

Imagine a renaissance where Germany's contributions to science, art, and philosophy are so profound once more that the world studies German to access them directly, as was necessary before the War—when thinkers from Freud to Heidegger drew global minds to the German language and ideas expressed therein. This requires Germans to see themselves as an answer rather than a cancer, to don the mantle of the best parts of what it is to be German: precision in thought, resilience in spirit, and a drive to advance your people as a luminous contribution to the world.

Stop throwing out our ancient wisdom to your personal detriment. Gift yourself the greater satisfaction that comes from living in harmony with these timeless truths. Like the phoenix from ashes, rise renewed, do proper t'shuva and the world will triumph.

There is honor in the path of G-d—and greater personal satisfaction. In it also lies the salvation of the German nation—and indeed, the salvation of the world.

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Resentment/Oppression and Jews Pres. Herz https://twitter.com/PresidentHerz https://davidherz.org/thoughts/resentment-oppression-jews 2025-09-08T20:14:00Z 2025-09-08T20:18:24Z Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Item::$cache_has_content_parts is deprecated in /home/zmaxzvmy/public_html/davidherz.org/thoughts/inc/items/model/_item.class.php on line 4911

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Hello Lisa,

I tried to respond as you were talking, but I was muted.

My thesis is that the Jews everyone craps on circled the wagons, hunkered down and went to work building enormous wealth.

In their idiotic leftism (which correlates highly with the big five trait of openness), they supported all sorts of programs to help the other oppressed. But those oppressed didn’t thrive. Their lives got worse. If they couldn’t make it in spite of the gifts they were given, this might lead naturally to a thought that maybe the game is rigged.

Our nation’s blacks made tremendous strides in the hundred years after the civil war, exactly when they were oppressed, red-lined, lynched, Jim-crowed, rather than helped, when they had to take care of their own.

Then came Moynihan’s 1965 report on the Negro Family, along with Johnson’s Great Society—and the unfortunate fact that every government program has unintended consequences, but no measure for when to pull the plug—and Robert Moses tore down neighborhoods to build projects, and we incentivized single motherhood, and let Ginsberg, Derrida and Marcuse (all with Jewish ancestry) inform the academy’s plunge into deconstructing our society to try to identify the oppressor and give the oppressed carte-blanche to take any action that undermines the oppressor. I suggested to you “The Queering of the American Child.” It’s a really good primer on the place we find ourselves.

And this is the formula today, this being Professor Peterson’s formulation on the Victim/Oppressor Narrative

  1. Identify an area of human activity
  2. Note the distribution of success
  3. Identify the winners and losers
  4. Claim the losers are losing because oppressed by winners
  5. Claim allegiance of losers
  6. Feel secure in your comprehensive explanation of the world
  7. Target your resentment toward your newly discovered enemies.
  8. Repeat, forever, everywhere

And we’ve fallen for it, and you host Mr. Winston every week, and allow conversations of structural racism, micro-aggressions, white fragility, etc.

I have been informed on the streets of Bridgeport that I am definitionally racist, and that a black person isn’t.

So my suggestion if we don’t want to foster resentment and upheaval is actually to celebrate the individual’s capacity to overcome his circumstances, in which case he must be left to face them, instead of feeling that the state must manipulate aid and housing and childcare to level the playing field.

If you want to be able to manage childcare, maybe the best strategy is a two parent, or even better, multigenerational home, deeply embedded in a local religious community.

Who cares if most people rent? The rate of homeownership in Europe runs from the low 40s to the mid 60s in most of Europe.

Anyway, I ran across this as I was looking for a source on the Peterson formulation above: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog/jordan-peterson-my-message-to-the-jews.

If you want to discuss any of this—and especially the gender-ideology thing, or the patriotic education thing—I am running in the 136th in Bridgeport, so you have an excuse to bring me on.

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Post Election Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Stop Calling Us Idiots

I am from the Gold Coast (U.S. Census Bureau, Super-Public Use Microdata Area Region 09600). In my neighborhood, this election season has been one of alarmism and hand-wringing about the Death of Democracy/Rise of Fascism that a new Trump term would usher in.

Now that the election is over, the analysis is not “what did we miss?” Rather it is “how come these voters can't see the terrible thing that they have chosen?”

Speculation is made about why Ms. Harris lost that has nothing to do with her vision or policy. Rather it suggests we are still racist, she was “perceived as weaker,” “she started late,” racism, misogyny, the female glass ceiling, her natural allies somehow lost sight of how good she is for them, and her “loss of the culture war.”

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They kicked me off Pres. Herz https://twitter.com/PresidentHerz https://davidherz.org/thoughts/kicked-off 2024-11-07T05:06:00Z 2024-11-07T05:06:58Z Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Item::$cache_has_content_parts is deprecated in /home/zmaxzvmy/public_html/davidherz.org/thoughts/inc/items/model/_item.class.php on line 4911

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To be fair, they pretty much shut down the group, but I was censored for my phobia as well, this about our election

Chairman Mao had the college students killing their professors. I have an inkling that if the current protest movements thought they could get away with it, they'd be doing the same in our universities, starting with the Jews. It always starts with the Jews.

The trans epidemic, the queers for Palestine, etc., are the direct heirs of Paulo Freire and the insidious Pedagogy of the oppressed with which the left is aligned.

The upending of truth (gender reassignment for illegal immigrants and prisoners) and glorification of revolution (BLM riots, etc.) should give us enough reason to question the direction of Harris.

As to criminality, if the same forces arrayed against Trump would have gone against Hilary or Joe, or various Kennedys, we'd have seen them convicted as well.

Trump has a mamash Jewish grandchild.

We had no stupid wars under Trump.

That's enough for me.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome: the Connecticut Post Pres. Herz https://twitter.com/PresidentHerz https://davidherz.org/thoughts/trump-derangement-syndrome-the-connecticut-post 2024-10-31T11:36:00Z 2025-05-05T16:29:40Z Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Item::$cache_has_content_parts is deprecated in /home/zmaxzvmy/public_html/davidherz.org/thoughts/inc/items/model/_item.class.php on line 4911

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I was struck by your placement of the first editorial in your Wednesday paper (CT Post, Oct. 30, 2024) on page 2 under the guise of an article by Dan Haar.

The opinion page was even worse.

Your disdain for President Trump and cherry picking of facts is laughable. President Trump's handling of COVID is criticized. Do you forget the press excoriation of Trump when he went to stop flights from China? or your dismissal of his reporting in the fall of 2020 that a vaccine was forthcoming?

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Figueroa: The Place to Punish Speech is at the Ballot Box Pres. Herz https://twitter.com/PresidentHerz https://davidherz.org/thoughts/figueroa-ballot-box 2024-08-18T05:33:00Z 2024-08-18T05:35:33Z Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Item::$cache_has_content_parts is deprecated in /home/zmaxzvmy/public_html/davidherz.org/thoughts/inc/items/model/_item.class.php on line 4911

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It bodes badly for our Republic that we are so quick to cancel another for a stupid remark. The same thought police that comes today to cancel Ms. Figueroa is the one that will cancel you tomorrow for expressing your unpleasant or out-of-vogue idea.

All Ms. Figueroa did was say the quiet part out loud. Her constituency, her popularity, comes in part from her ethnic connections. She is probably right that I (another Jew lawyer) can not understand her experience and that of a large portion of her constituents as she can. If she had railed against white males and the patriarchy instead of noticing that this white-male was Jewish, she would be a hero of the DEI movement right now.

But even if she is right as to her understanding, it is possible she might still be good for people like me. If her concern for “minorities” is broad enough (i.e. includes my minority), I might be able to overlook the anti-semitic remark.

On the other hand, a would-be challenger could easily enough make the argument that her experience and commonality with certain constituents does not redound to their benefit. Maybe the Jew-lawyer could make a case that Ms. Figueroa is too close to advocate for what is best for her community and defeat her at the ballot box.

But this is unacceptable at the Democratic City Committee. She challenged their preferred candidate, and now is run out on a rail at the first opportunity.

Her “pattern of antisemitic comments” is two statements that she made with regard to one man. That she picked on his identity is just human nature. We are tribal, and sometimes lesser instincts grab a hold of us. Sometimes, a certain stereotype fits. I don't know either of the players here; I don't know how well Mr. Jacobson might fit a Latino stereotype of the Jewish-lawyer.

It's not up to the DCC to force her expulsion. They made their view known. They should have let the voters decide if there is “an innate inability to effectively serve all

members of her constituency and the City of Stamford.”

But the pièce de résistance, the topper of toppers is this: “It is untenable that she remain in office where the absence of bias and prejudice are critical to fair and just service to the City and all of its people.”

Talk to a moderately conservative or religious person, or someone who wears a MAGA hat, about our experiences with those in office. Using this “bias and prejudice” standard, many would agree that the “innate inability to serve” is as evident in her accusers as it appears to be in Ms. Figueroa.

What could have been used as the opening of a robust conversation has instead been used to silence and suppress, in service of what?

David R. Herz, Bridgeport, CT

Republican Candidate in the 126th.

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