Posted on 06/13/2010 1:11:54 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
“I think I’ve been a little blind.”
Well Rabbi, you are not alone in the American Jewish community. You have a lot of company.
Hey if someone is waking up, don’t stand over them with a bat.... What if the spiritual blinders are coming off? and they can now see the truth? Do not call him stupid.
“Don’t Stand over them with a bat”
I have to agree. If you are fed the same line your entire life, and pretty much hang with people that agree with you, that is going to be the extent of your knowledge.
If you ONLY drive an Automatic, not knowing how cool a stick shift is does not mean your stupid. It means you are ignorant.
Give the guy a break, he lives on the East Coast fer cryin out loud.
If the outcome is for their to be truth you have to give enough space, grace so they can save face....so you are not being smug and holding it over their heads. No one likes that....
“I think I’ve been a little blind.”
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Wow! C’mon, Reb, you’ve been a bit slow, as well. But welcome to the light.
Why do Jews continue to vote Democrat?
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It is a conundrum, isn’t it? Not any sort of expert, but I think many American Jews got locked into the Rat party way back during the times that they were discriminated against in the workplace and in housing. Jews often played a big part in protesting racial segregation against blacks, and part of that was probably due to empathy engendered by their own experience as targets of bigotry. Many of these activists got started in urban areas, where Rats organized on a much larger scale than Republicans. Somehow, they came to link the Rats with more social equality.
“Don’t Stand over them with a bat”
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I most definitely agree. I will criticize him here,but I would not do so where he would see it. Any time I see a glimmer of hope for a leftist to wake up, I will be happy to gently fan that flame with kindness.
Better late than never, i suppose.
On another forum I frequent, the non-Jewish Lefties are virulently anti-Israel.
I foresee a split in the Dem party.
The comment that struck me the most was when he said something like ‘I was against the Iraq war and so was Helen. But I was concerned about the soldiers in harms way and she was concerned about the Iraqis.’
He has been awakened.
I live in NYC and it makes me c r a z y.
The short answer is that it’s Russian-Polsih anti czarist pro-Bolshevik sentiment that they can’t outgrow.
It wasn’t EMPATHY — it was a TACTIC — stgraight out of the commie playbook.
Quoth kabumpo: It makes me c r a z y .
Same here. Chronic condition. More than 25 years,
when I realize that it makes it worse. I mean,
Jimmmy Carter didn’t do it.
Part, but only part of it is the liberal mindset that
intentions, even only professed intentions are what
count and not disastrous, predictable results.
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