Politics & Power Quote by Paul Weyrich

Weyrich’s line is engineered to sound like a cold statistic while smuggling in a warm emotional payload: grievance. “Every” flattens dozens of governments, factions, and histories into a single hostile bloc. “Against us” recruits the listener into a threatened in-group without ever defining who “us” is (America? conservatives? Israel’s allies? a civilizational “West”?). The phrasing invites a moral conclusion - disloyalty, ingratitude, antagonism - while staying one step removed behind the alibi of vote-counting.

The “two thirds” detail does important rhetorical work. It’s precise enough to feel empirical, yet vague enough to evade scrutiny: which forum (the UN General Assembly, Security Council, UNESCO), which years, which resolutions, and on what issues? In the General Assembly especially, voting patterns are often less about affection or hostility than about coalitions, regional blocs, postcolonial alignments, and the fact that many resolutions are symbolic. Treating those votes as a referendum on “us” converts procedural diplomacy into personal betrayal.

Context matters: Weyrich was a key architect of modern American conservatism, speaking in an era when the Middle East sat at the intersection of oil politics, terrorism discourse, and pro-Israel evangelical activism. The sentence functions as a permission slip - for skepticism toward Arab governments, for hardline foreign policy, for cultural suspicion - without naming any of that explicitly. It’s not analysis; it’s a scoreboard. And scoreboards are how you turn complex geopolitics into a simple narrative of enemies and deserved retaliation.