Posted on 01/21/2006 4:33:39 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
I never understood it eiher. People I know vote for the left on automatic. Doesn't make any sense. Does anything?
Oh, get a grip!
You get a grip. "American Catholics, why did most of you vote for Clinton!"
Because Israel isn't their main concern (nor should it be). They're liberal because they're pro-abort, anti-gun, pro-multicult, etc. ....and have, as have non-Jewish liberals, equated "the right wing" in American politics with Nazism. ....an association that's so ingrained it'll be next to impossible to dispel.
Yawn.
The author seems unaware that most American Jews do not place a high priority on Israel.
See? That's who someone who's assimilated enough to American language and thinking can use quantifiers. But what should we expect from neo-Nazi inbreeds?
I've wondered about this many times. Not being Jewish, I cannot answer but only guess.
As Conservatives we expect a logical answer, but logic does not apply here.
My guess is it is a cultural trait that goes back to tribal times and is passed down generation to generation.
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ding ding. we have a winner.
Correction:
That's how someone who's assimilated enough to American language and thinking can use quantifiers.
And my point is that pointing fingers at specific groups of Democrats is evil and/or idiotic. For example, people from Christian families who are left/liberal vastly outnumber left/liberal Jews. Why are so many supposedly "conservative" columnists harping so much about less than 2% of our population?
As a conservative Jew - from a large liberal Jewish family - here are some insights: There is a hangover in the Jewish community from the bigotry of the earlier part of the 20th century that, according to people like my grandparents, has a vague Republican aroma, such as preventing Jews from going to Ivy League schools, or closing off the country clubs and certain communities to Jews. Second, the association between Jews and blacks during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s coincided with the Democratic Party's effort to link themselves to the issue. Third, a lot of Jews live in the New York metro area (all of my relatives do, except for my sister and I), and the politics of the area are skewed toward the Democrats from a century of machine politics (Tammany Hall, for instance). Finally, a lot of us are college-educated - which means that those of us who are utopians tend toward elitist, "philosopher-king" ideologies, such as socialism.
I agree with the focus of this article. It is so sad to see the movement of those who want to exterminate the Jews do so with the implicit consent of the American Jews. On the other hand, this isn't the first time in our history where a large portion of the Jewish people have ignored dangers, turned away from tradition, or split into factionalism. God didn't call us a "stiff-necked lot" for no reason.
False numbers. Faulty reasoning.
Why did you think , even for an instant , that you could post something as heretical as this here>
IMO, they're courting the destruction of America and all it stands for. Particularly, the America that has been a haven for oppressed people the world over.
As it happens, I had an American Jew tell me today that if the Christian Right in this country continued to gain power, many American Jews intend to migrate to Australia. Needless to say, this astounded me.
How could it be that Jews distrust Christians as much as or maybe more than they distrust Muslims? The answer is of course in history. Until just recently, Christians have been as ruthlessly cruel to Jews as Muslims have been. Jews feel they can trust and cope with liberals who have no religion and believe in nothing strongly enough to kill for, but they distrust anyone whose religion could, and has in the past, threaten them.
You get a grip. "American Catholics, why did most of you vote for Clinton!"
Although I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, that's also a legitimate question. I'm Catholic, and I for one just don't get that, either. Maybe they believe that pap that Jesus was a liberal/socialist/communist (ignoring that liberal/socialist/communist thought has been used as an excuse to butcher about 150,000,000 people in the last 60 years). The ironies include that leftist support basically everything that most Christians and Catholics proclaim to oppose, from the "right" to kill unborn babies to pornography and assaults on the traditional family.
Frankly, I think it's also just cultural -- Catholics since the days of FDR have been Catholic, and that trait just gets passed down from generation to generation.
Because being Jewish or Catholic is more of a "Status symbol" than anything, atleast for some. A lot don't even practice but like having the tag...
Speaking on behalf of Mr. Nasty, how does this sound: "Some Jews in New York were somewhat responsible for the election of Hillary Clinton as their Senator.
Or, how about Democratic congressman from CA Tom Lantos, also a Jew, who while not exactly a supporter of the Bush Administration, nevertheless takes every opportunity to voice his displeasure over the current administration's policies.......
Mr. Nasty is speaking in generalities which are based in truth. Jews elected Hillary in New York and Lantos in Californicate........
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