That’s a great comment by Ed Koch about the way Jews vote. It’s one of life’s great mysteries to me, why Jews vote overwhelmingly Democrat, maybe it’s nothing more than that’s what their parents and grandparents did.
The greatest honor Rush could bestow on James Golden would be to let him be the Guest Host on at least one segment of Rush’s show, but preferably the whole show!
Listening Rush?
My Australian grandmother was the same way. It did not matter what the issues were. Since everyone in her family always voted labor; that is how she voted.
Same with me, and I'm Jewish. I've never understood the ingrained belief that "the government" will protect the Jews. From Czarist Russia, to the Soviet Union, to Nazi Germany, Jews have exhibited what Einstein once declared as insanity. The belief that if you do the same thing over and over again, the results will be different.
A perfect example what what happened in Germany in the 1930s, one of the founding centers of Reformed Judaism. Jews had successfully (for the most part) integrated themselves into cosmopolitan German society. A great many Jews saw themselves as patriotic Germans, who had served honorably in the Kaiser's service during WWI. But things changed...
Same with Russia, before the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe and Russia have a long history of anti-semitism, and during the Russian Revolution, many Jews bought the "equality" line of communism hook, line, and sinker.
The belief that "the government" would protect them, yet the governments were run by many of the most virulently anti-semetic people in history. And those governments were responsible for some of the most brutal repression of the Jews, if not outright genocide, were originally lauded by the Jews, as their protectors.
Mark