I have never understood the suicidal stupidity of my co-religionists when it comes to politics. Jews can be very bright in business, medicine, the sciences, and a whole host of other areas - but when it comes to politics and especially the politics of self-preservation, Jews as a group seem to be as dumb as a box of rocks. Maybe somewhere in the distant past someone made a Faustian bargain to be smart in all of those other areas, but have the counterweight of political stupidity. Who knows?
I most certainly do not know everything. But here are a few things that I do know:
I have never seen films of Jews leaving boxcars with guns in their hands, but I do know that the Democratic Party would disarm me in a heartbeat if they could get away with it.
I know that my paternal grandfather ran away from Communism in Russia in 1923, leaving behind his entire family to come to the United States, so that he and his progeny could be free. I also know that his family in the USSR suffered greatly under Communism, and that I hate it and its advocates with a white hot passion. Simultaneously, I know that the Democratic Party has been inexorably moving this country in the direction of Communism. Hell, Vladimir Putin is less of a Communist than most Democrats, and he probably still has his party card.
I know that a significant percentage of Muslims would, if they had the chance, cut off my head or otherwise kill me for being Jewish. Simultaneously, the Democratic Party has been cozying up to and taking money from some of the most radical Muslim regimes on the planet.
I know that Israel is a tiny and beleaguered refuge for Jews, the only place that has ever fulfilled that role in the last two thousand years. I also know that the Democratic Party has been doing its level best to defang the Israeli military and to leave Israel as defenseless as possible in the face of it’s implacably hostile enemies. Further, the Democratic Party is almost completely responsible fir allowing the nation of Iran to develop and obtain nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and helping to finance such acquisition.
I know that I at least try to adhere to and teach my children according to the faith and values of my forefathers. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is shoving gay marriage, men in women’s restrooms, locker rooms and showers, abortion on demand, and a whole host of other morally-abhorrent ideas and practices down our throats.
In short, the Democratic Party stands for everything that I oppose, and against everything that I am for. It is beyond any logical reason why the majority of Jews here do not stand for the exact same principles that I do. Yet, they do. The only explanation that I can offer is that most American Jews have replaced the religion of their fathers with the false (and rather stupid) “god” of Leftism. We are all far worse off for it, Jew and non-Jew alike.
I take it from you’re post that your a Jewish?
I sure hope so. Because I’m not. And I was attacked mercilessly by several of our Jewish friends that are members here. For simply asking the question “Why do Jews vote against their best interests?”
So good luck.
Unfortunately, the majority of Jews in America, while they are ethnically Jewish, religiously they are not. They relate to one another in the business world as an “exclusive corporation” that generally excludes non-Jews, but I would bet that the vast majority of them are not the least bit religious. Good for you that you seek to impart your faith and heritage to your children, if there are enough of you, Judaism will survive.
Are you Jewish? I thought I read you were the first time I read this, but can’t find it now.
According to our tradition, four-fifths of the Jews died during the plague of darkness, and the reason given is that when offered freedom, they wanted to remain in Egypt. Being enslaved has to be a very dehumanizing and deadening experience. In order to survive it, one has to pull back on that which makes us conscious, on that which makes us fully human. It is a form of de-evolution, self-suicide, really.
Even the percentage is the same today.