“You don’t live in the U.S., do you? Because your description fits the far Left in the U.S. to a tee.”
The one contrast is the Shas are welfare queens but also extreme social conservatives, and wish the civil authority to impose Torah standards on the citizenry. I think a more apt comparison would be Mike Huckabee on steroids.
Regarding myself, I am an accidental American citizen. I was born and raised in Israel, but both of my parents are US citizens. I consider myself Israeli, except when people pick on the USA, and then I am a US citizen.
I do temporaily live in the USA for reasons related to my inlaws.
But the fact is, that the Left in the U.S. wants to impose an ideology every bit as totalitarian, and putting themselves at the top of the pyramid, as sole arbiters of what is “right and moral”, and demanding that others support their pharoitic lifestyles. Of course, what they decide as what is “right and moral” is whatever they decide by fiat, and only applies to others, and not to themselves.
A perfect example of it, is the “New Rules” repeating Skit on Mahers ‘Real Time’ show, These typr of scum, always think they have the right to make rules for everyone else, while trying to claim that they are the ones protecting othet peoples rights.
The Left if the I.S. is infested with intolerant fascist anal retentive control freaks and wanna-be Stalins.