Posted on 11/11/2008 9:18:13 PM PST by indianyogi
My reasoning tells me Republican thinking and loyalty to Isreal would be attractive to Jewish Americans. Why then they vote as Democrats?
Many are very socially liberal with very little attachment in any way to the state of Israel.
My theory is that Jewish voters are traditionally Democratic voters because it was a Democratic President (Harry S Truman) who was the first to recognize the reestablishment of Israel as a Nation on May 14, 1948.
Of course today’s Democrat Party has more in common with the CPUSA and would have driven out Harry Truman for being ‘too conservative’.
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Beyond logic. Beyond reason. Beyond sanity.
Same mentality I guess that bought the Arbeit mach Frei (Work prduces Freedom) lie at the death camps.
Less Christians? Potentially more converts available in the dem party?
...that’s pretty well it. American Jews are largely secular, they are extremely socially liberal, and have little in common with religious Jews and Israeli Jews. They are also stuck in a Roosevelt era mindset where they think WASPs are out to get them...oddly enough as members of the extreme left, they have become some of the greatest facilitators of the most significant threat to Jews everywhere, radical Islam.
Excellent point. As proof that what you say is true, the Obama operatives are launching a soviet style party purge of the very liberal Joe Lieberman and John Dingell.
As a group, Jews are intelligent but politically naive. I suspect that many at some level wish that Marxism (Karl Marx was Jewish and Marxism is associated with the Left) wasn’t such an abject failure, and will always cut the Left way more slack than it deserves because of this hoping that it will ‘catch on’ somehow.
Most American Jews are secular. Their politics have become their religion.
Easy to answer. Most Jews are very pro-abortion. And they also fear that eeeevil evangelical Christians will “force” their beliefs on them. Why they don’t notice the anti-Semitism of the left is beyond me.
They are Liberal/Socialist by nature.
They still have the mentality of the money changers in the Temple.
A big case of misplaced idealism in which they think they will cure all the ills of the world, except their own. Only 60 years after the Holocaust they forget they are still the endangered underdog in this world and instead of thinking of what’s good for themselves, they are busy looking to save every other group that claims they need help. To make matters worse, Marxists have over the past 40 years Marxists have infiltrated the theological schools of liberal Judaism and Christianity and made these denominations arms of the Democratic Party.
A sad, but truthful analsys would have to go back literally to the advent of Israel as a nation...the days of Joshua and Moses.
And the sad fact of that analysis is that the Jewish people, in general, are some of the most self-destructive members of the human reace that are on this earth. They've been in the habit, for LITERALLY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, of doing the polar opposite of what is best for their nation as whole.
The only thing that has kept them from being completely wiped off the face of the earth, is God himself.
Eventually, there will be one last, great purge of the Jews that will make the Holocaust look like a tea party in comparison. There is now entire nations filled with people who would like nothing more than to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth...the Muslim nations. Eventually, they will get their chance.
But, strangely enough, the safest place for a Jew to be at the time, will be Israel, despite the fact that it is surrounded by people who hate their guts. There seems to be some sort of devine protection on that country that keeps it from being harmed by invaders, and its own incredibly stupid politicians.
That might not be the answer you wanted, but the issue, at its heart is spiritual, not just cold rationalism.
Just socialist is all.
Even before FDR, they voted socialist. They have never voted above 35% for anyone not a Democrat, since Coolidge, except for Reagan in 1980 (39% Reagan, 45% Carter, 14% Anderson).
See: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/jewvote.html
I am married into a Jewish Family and they are all Democrats but used to be Republicans. They became Democrats when the GOP began advocating a Christian Social Conservative agenda. Those issues being prayer in school, abortion and the fundamentalist Christian view of Israel.
ok, i’ll be the first one: what the hell is a deocrat?
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