UNITY? AMERICA: The Next Seventy Years

On August 6, 1949 Murray Sabrin (Moses Schabrinski) arrived in America with his parents, who were the only members of their respective families to survive the Holocaust, and his older brother after a five-day voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Professor Sabrin’s parents had no more than $150 with them. They were met at a west side Manhattan pier by his mother’s aunt and uncle from Paterson, New Jersey, who thought he was a two-year-old girl because of his long, blond hair.

Prof. Sabrin, Ph. D

The Sabrins settled in lower Manhattan and lived in a three-room railroad apartment sharing a hallway bathroom with neighbors; the kitchen had a bathtub below the porcelain counter. The rent was $26 per month. Soon after Professor Sabrin’s younger brother Max was born the family moved (August 1953) to a two-bedroom Bronx apartment (eventually moving downstairs to a three-bedroom apartment) where he lived until he married Florence in 1968. And in 1959, 60 years ago this past June, Murray raised my right hand at the Federal Courthouse in lower Manhattan and swore to support the U.S. Constitution, when he became a naturalized citizen.

America has changed dramatically since that hot August day seven decades ago. The good news–the standard of living has increased substantially for youngsters of the baby boom generation who became of age in the 1950s and 60’s. The bad news—the welfare-warfare state, which Professor Sabrin has been criticizing for more than four decades–is undermining our prosperity, and has been violating our fundamental American values of no entangling alliances and peaceful commerce with the rest of the world.

The events of the past seven decades (the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Kennedy Assassination, the Great Society programs, the Middle East Wars and the Boom-Bust Cycles)—and his family’s history–have shaped Professor Sabrin’s view of business, the economy, social issues and global affairs.

Professor Sabrin will give his forecasts about the future of business, higher education, medical care and other major issues for the next seventy years. Interesting to note, this presentation was given in 2019.

New Harris poll: LGBTQ… has overplayed its hand.

They couldn’t leave it at marriage.

Society could have adjusted to that and we could have all lived happily ever after.

But oh no… they had to go after gender… had to argue for allowing people with penises into high school girls’ dressing rooms, to shower with them.  Had to threaten women’s athletics.  Had to push “drag queen story hours” on little children.

Now a new Harris Poll shows that Americans aged 18-34 are becoming less and less enamored with the LGBTQ perspective every year.

In 2016, 63 percent of millennials considered themselves "allies" of the LGBTQ movement. But that number fell to 53 percent in 2017, and plunged to 45 percent last year.

Adopting a pseudo-religious intolerance towards all differing opinions has led to a rise in discomfort amongst millennials, with 36 percent now saying they are not comfortable when they learn a family member is homosexual (up from 29 percent a year ago).

A startling 42 percent of millennial males are uncomfortable learning that their child has had a lesson on LGBT history at school or has a homosexual teacher. That's up from 27 percent a scant two years ago.

The poll was conducted by a pro-LGBTQ polling firm.  The CEO of Harris Polling was quoted as saying, "These numbers are very alarming." 

Of course, the real reason why the LGBTQ movement can never be satisfied is that it is all about the money.  Contentment, getting on with one’s life, does not raise money for the professional LGBTQ activists.  They don’t get paid that way.  They get paid by raising the alarm… by labeling their fellow human beings as “enemies… haters… who must be destroyed.”  They live off hate.  No hate… no dough.  They must have hate.

We have been warned about this before, in another context, by that good liberal, Mrs. Lillian Smith.  A Southern writer, she was a pioneer in the battle to end segregation. We recommend her book, The Winner Names the Age.  In it, you will find this passage she wrote when she accepted the Charles S. Johnson Award for her work:

“It is his millions of relationships that will give man his humanity… It is not our ideological rights that are important but the quality of our relationships with each other, with all men, with knowledge and art and God that count.

The civil rights movement has done a magnificent job but it is now faced with the ancient choice between good and evil, between love for all men and lust for a group’s power.” 

“Every group on earth that has put ideology before human relations has failed; always disaster and bitterness and bloodshed have come.  This movement, too, may fail.  If it does, it will be because it aroused in men more hate than love, more concern for their own group than for all people, more lust for power than compassion for human need.”

“We must avoid the trap of totalism which lures a man into thinking there is only one way, one answer, one option, and that others must be forced into this One Way, and forced into it Now.”