It’s pretty simple, really. The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans are The Descendants of immigrants who fled persecution in places like Ukraine, Romania, Poland and other Eastern European countries.
For 2,000 years, the Jews were invited to different European countries by Kings and Queens. At first they were treated well, as they served the role of the business class since the aristocrats did not want to work and did not want peasants to be educated. So the Jews were the Clerks and the shopkeepers. As each of these countries modernized and gradually drifted away from the feudal system, where everybody was either a peasant, an aristocrat, a member of the priesthood, or a Jewish member of the business class, the Jews were no longer needed and anti-Semitism increased. So they packed their bags and moved to another European country that was inviting them.
In the end, their last stop in Europe was these Eastern European countries that were much more rural and uncultured compared to places like France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, which is where the Jews had originally settled before being booted out of these countries one by one. In these more cultured Western European countries, Jews tended to live in big cities and were befriended by intellectuals.
But when they ended up in the Boondocks of Eastern Europe, they were persecuted by people who tended to be religious, Rural, and nationalistic. So that was their last memory of Europe before coming to America. When they came to America, the overwhelming majority of them settled in big cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, etc, etc. They were happy to be back in these Urban areas, surrounded by intellectuals once again. And in America, they had the freedom to become full-fledged members of American culture. That’s why there’s so many prominent Jewish songwriters, comedians, writers, not to mention that Hollywood was invented by the Jews.
And as happy as they were to be back in the big cities, they were equally wary of those rural, religious, nationalistic rednecks in The Boondocks of the American Heartland. My parents, who were the children of immigrants, were convinced that if there was ever going to be a major uptick in anti-Semitism, it would be the Rednecks in the heartland who would be showing up at their doorstep on Horseback with torches. And they believed that the people who would take them in and protect them would be the Blacks, or Italians, or anyone else who wasn’t a WASP.
Meanwhile, the two most prominent anti-semites in America, Father Charles Coughlin, and Henry Ford we’re both from Detroit, a big industrial city up north. Unfortunately, as the decades have passed, more and more of these Jewish American descendants of Eastern European immigrants are more and more willing to forego Jewish theology in favor of jumping on the bandwagon of whatever the urban intellectuals are promoting. It’s gotten to the point where even having a belief in the coming of the Messiah, which originated with Judaism, is now viewed by many Urban Jews as Redneck-y.
So basically, Jewish liberalism comes down to Urban snobbery borne out of their last memories of persecution in Europe, before coming to America. Because even when the Jews lived in the big cities of Western Europe, they were still persecuted, and not all intellectuals liked them, just some. But that happened hundreds of years earlier, and those stories were not relayed to them via their grandparents, or great-grandparents.
This urban snobbery is also the Cornerstone of modern day post 1960s liberalism. And that’s one of the main reasons why it still resonates with so many Jewish Americans.
I do know that Jews loaned money to European governments and when those government didn’t want to pay the Jews back, they kicked them out of the country. That would explain why they don’t trust the government. The Jews were blamed for the black death because fewer of them died since they practiced Jewish health laws of cleaning the grain bins. That would explain why they don’t trust the “red necks.”
That explains a lot!