Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Settlements are not the great obstacle to Mid-East peace [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)"anyone who supports the right of return (which includes you, I believe), either wants the Jewish state to not exist or simply ignores the reality that RoR will necessarily end the Jewish state." - aranthus
"The white establishment is now the minority, said OReilly. The voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.
He goes on to say that Hispanics and blacks will vote overwhelmingly for Obama, and that women are more likely to vote for the president, as well.
People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them those things? he asks." - quoting Bill O'Reilly
No point in calling Bill O a 'name', as in "This shows that Bill O is an X", because so what? Rather, I'll describe my take on it, which is that Bill O seems to be a weak and frightened man who sees his position in life going under along with a waning "white male establishment". He sees his world falling apart because, apparently, he thinks his (personal) power and position in society depends entirely on the legal/political preeminence of a certain culture that he identifies with. An identity that he thinks he can calculate demographically.
I don't see it that way. IMO Bill O's vision is occluded by an absolutist political stance that sees no room for adaptation, a stance that says that he and his faction are winners or losers, and nothing can be in between. Which to my mind explains why Bill O can only be a bully or a whiner.
But I don't think the nature of democracy is like that. In a democracy there will always be room for small minded culturally stunted people like Bill O, and for equal and opposite numbers who identify with different narrowly defined factions. His position in life isn't threatened by a vote. Furthermore, even tho' the demographic breakdown of the 2012 US vote was astoundingly skewed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9666345/US-election-2012-how-US-voters-have-changed.html
the actual US political/economic establishment has hardly changed.