ILanaMercer.com is libertarian commentary and articles by Ilana Mercer
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ILANA MERCER
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Talk about a wandering Jew: I'm an ex-Israeli, ex-South African, and ex-Canadian. I now call the U.S. home. Whereas I consider myself lucky to have escaped the inhospitable, dreary, and socialist Canada, I credit our northern neighbor for its principled opposition to the invasion of Iraq. If asked to pinpoint the essential difference (other than cultural) between Canada and the U.S., I’d say this: Canadians are devoted to the Welfare State; Americans, while partial to the Welfare State, prefer its violent and infinitely more virulent offshoot, the Warfare State.
My father was a South African anti-apartheid activist who fled to Israel where I grew up. (To add to the crosses the poor man bore, he was—and still is—a rabbi). I am grateful to him for imparting to me his sense of life, irreverence, and contrariness, tempered always by a dedication to timeless standards and verities.
Ruminations about the corrosive effects on society of the therapeutic culture and the cult of the victim soon led to other realizations. Whether it was in promoting official multiculturalism, radical feminist orthodoxy, critical race theory, affirmative action policies or literary deconstruction—the state was everywhere. What's more, neatly factioned into special interests, citizens now lined up to cheer the state's assault on basic liberties.
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