Matt Stoller

The Times They Are A-Changin': Establishment Democrats Fall

Originally posted on Citizen Orange

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'

Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
- Lyrics

I never thought I'd see the day when I could safely say that the pollsters, the pundits, and the establishment democrat bloggers would turn toward the light migrant justice. That day has come and it only affirms one of the Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s most hopeful themes.

The arc of the
moral universe is long but it bends toward justice
- Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

After Republicans failed with their anti-migrant rhetoric in Virginia, the powers that be have begun to sing a different tune. Duke at Migra Matters was the first to pick up on how the tone has changed. This is a Washington Post article before the results were in:

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Wars are the clock ticking off the time of Israeli history: World War I; the "riots" of 1929 and 1936; World War II; the War of Independence, 1948; the Sinai Campaign, 1956; the Six Day War, 1967; the War of Attrition, 1969-1971; the Yom Kippur War, 1973; the Labanon War, 1982; the Gulf War, 1991. Not all these conflicts were equally significant in their cultural impact, and surely not in the same way, but together they create a ghastly rhythm in which every calm period is seen in Israel as a pause before future violence.

[Editor's Note: I would say this explains a great deal about Israel...and I would add that a similar statement could be made about Palestine]

— Ariel Hirschfeld, in his chapter in Cultures of the Jews, edited by David Biale