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Imagining what a President Bernie Sanders would mean for Jews
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2020 | Karol Markowicz

Posted on 03/01/2020 7:09:38 PM PST by karpov

WASHINGTON, NOV. 20, 2021: When Bernie Sanders won the presidential election in a squeaker last year, progressive Jews enthused that a glorious new era in American Judaism had dawned.

Synagogues in Park Slope and on the Upper West Side took turns hosting thought leaders such as Peter Beinart (author of “The Crisis of Zionism”) and Max Blumenthal (“Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”) to explain how American Jews were heading into a “post-Israel” era — and why that was a good thing.

Lefty rabbis published lengthy Facebook posts about how mainstream and center-right Jewish organizations are all actually racist — and how the Sanders administration will help Jews overcome the community’s “particularist obsession” with “Jewish security.”

Yet a year into his term, the first Jewish president hasn’t, in fact, ushered in a Jewish golden age. For one thing, violent attacks against Jews, particularly the Orthodox, continue to escalate, triggering an exodus not seen since that of French Jewry in 2015-16.

The $17 federal minimum wage has sharply increased the unemployment rate among unskilled workers, and Jews have been an ­immediate scapegoat on the far right and left. Harsh new housing-development standards enacted as part of the Green New Deal, meanwhile, have deepened the existing homelessness crisis.

“Jewish landlords” has emerged as a catchphrase seen on many signs at “Free Homes Now” protests. Secretary of Housing and ­Urban Development Linda Sarsour has voiced her support for the movement on Twitter. Confronted with evidence of overt anti-Semitism, she said Team Sanders ­“deplores all hate,” while urging “privileged communities” to “think and act ­intersectionally.”

When three synagogues were burned to the ground in Los Angeles, White House Press Secretary Bill de Blasio said: “Let me be very clear. We won’t stand for these white-supremacist attacks on any community.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemite; atheism; berniesanders; communistfantasy; israel; sanders; sanders2020; secularhumanist; thenogodgod
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To: Notthereyet
I'm so far from being "emotional", your statement is laughable in the extreme!

Trump knows how to get his voters and even those who might be on the fence, into full blown action and if you don't understand that, by this time, you have a problem nobody can fix.

Virginia isn't in the same league as a national presidential election!

A Commie Bernie candidacy would get most people in a frenzy...against that; even if Trump wasn't running! Even with a massive amount of voter fraud and the damned ILLEGALS voting, Trump still wins, but perhaps not with as large of a majority as we would hope for.

And if somehow Biden makes it, that would squash a lot of Dem voters turning out, no matter WHO is running mate would be.

Some "dark horse" miraculously coming in to "save" the Dems a la Deus ex machina? It is to laugh!

21 posted on 03/01/2020 10:24:06 PM PST by nopardons
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To: kidd

Sanders went after our kids and the poor minorites to gather up his following exactly the same promises as Lenin did. People should not underestimate what’s driving his supporters and they are increasing......nor believe for a second the Dems won’t support him, they will if he wins this beast of a primary.


22 posted on 03/01/2020 10:24:35 PM PST by caww
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To: karpov

I don’t get why any Jewish person would vote D.


23 posted on 03/01/2020 10:50:31 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: karpov

The one thing to be optimistic about is, Bernie has a ticky heart. He’s already had one heart attack. And he’s pretty darn old for the office.


24 posted on 03/01/2020 10:51:46 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: karpov

Doesn’t Sanders hate Jews?


25 posted on 03/01/2020 11:19:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

As a hardcore communist/Marxist, Sanders has to at least dislike Jews, if not hate the most observant because Judaism believes in one God, not one Commissar Lenin/Stalin/Brezhnev/Andropov/Putin/Sanders and their Jewish KAPOS, Jewish Voices for Peace, anything Soros supports that has one Jew in it, like his son Alexander’s (? re first name) fake group roughly entitled “Bend The Arc” (showed up like a jock rash after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre), and radical Jews associated with the Reconstructionist Movement and the Marxist wing of the Reform Movement.

Sanders is what a Jewish KAPO, like Soros, really is, a betrayor of his religious heritage, of the Jewish people in general, of Israel as a nation, and of America as a land where Jews are treated very nicely.

Only this time, the Jewish conservatives will act like the IRGUN, not the Haganah, in terms of going after him and his Marxist, anti-semitic minions (Sarsour, Tlaib, Omar, Pajaypal, Tameka Mallory, Sharpton, DeBlasio (a closet red supporter), Chesa Boudin, etc).

We are going to spread the truth about Bernie and his communism, his anti-Semitic friends/supporters, his anti-Israel ideology, and his general treasonous behavior now and planned int he future for America.

We will NEVER be silent again.

Been in this game since 1963 and love the new tools Al Gore’s great internet has given us. Thanks Al. It is perhaps the only positive thing you’ve ever done in your life. If you died today, that would make two.

Bernie: I’ve had a heart attack, cardiac arrest and cancer but I’m sticking around to kick your ass through November. I want to see you have a gigantic heart attack/stroke, AIDS, and criminal convictions before I croak.

Time to label all the key supporters of Sanders as “communists or Marxists”. They are not “democratic socialists” or “socialists”. They are reds, commies, traitors, supporters of political/physical genocide, anti-God and religion, and damned psychopathic insane.

Remember that when you go after them. Remind the average citizen that these are nothing by the 1930’s German-American Bund movement, only instead of Brown and Black- Shirted Gestapo and Nazi fanatics, they support the Red Hammer and Sickle. The are the “NEW GOOD GERMANS” and should be treated as such.

Show them no political mercy. If they are down, do an Eric Holder on them, kick them in the political balls. Hey, if Eric says its a good thing to do to your opponents, who can disagree?


26 posted on 03/02/2020 12:36:23 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: karpov

Kapo de tutti Kapos Presidente


27 posted on 03/02/2020 12:41:32 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: karpov

bump


28 posted on 03/02/2020 2:48:36 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: karpov

I wonder what Fidel Sanders has to say about George Soros’ unrepentant collaboration with the Nazis?


29 posted on 03/02/2020 2:58:04 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: SunkenCiv

For some, he’d be their hero, finally sticking to those evil Jewish nationalists.


30 posted on 03/02/2020 4:44:10 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: karpov
"After being caught on a hot mic trashing Israel as a “s - - - ty, little, racist state,” Secretary of State ­Rashida Tlaib..."

I threw up a little in my throat reading that...

31 posted on 03/02/2020 5:36:54 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: karpov

Nothing good. Sanders would go out of his way to support anti-Jewish policies if only to show he wasn’t pro-Jewish. Bernie Sanders is a communist, and communism is a religion. Sanders turned his back on Judaism, and on America, a long time ago.


32 posted on 03/02/2020 6:22:32 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: nopardons

Sorry, not sorry, nopardons.

You’re getting more emotional in each subsequent ping.

You’re welcome to get emotional, though. In fact, releasing emotions are healthy for most humans.

I’ll continue to lift up in prayer the request for vigilant Americans to vote for Pres Trump.

I am comfortable saying Virginia’s screw-up may have pushed to the forefront this election cycle how important it is for each American legally eligible to vote.


33 posted on 03/02/2020 11:26:52 AM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: Ancesthntr; CaptainAmiigaf; BTerclinger; Daveinyork; dennisw; EinNYC; Eleutheria5; EQAndyBuzz; ...

Ping!


34 posted on 03/02/2020 12:06:57 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: Notthereyet

Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...poor widdle n00b, please stop reading emotion into my posts and do look inward instead. Also, learn some political history, vis-a-vis presidential election history, and pay more attention to things like enthusiasm, the #WALKAWAY Movement, such.


35 posted on 03/02/2020 12:38:48 PM PST by nopardons
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To: karpov

I hope the DNC convention degenerates into a fist fight with no winners and no candidate, and the building utterly trashed.


36 posted on 03/02/2020 12:44:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: TigersEye

HE’S A COMMUNIST JINO; he is as anti Israel as he is anti America, and like all good marxists he is ANTI JEW AND ANTI CHRISTIAN.

He is only not vocal against islam because the jihadis are his allies and b/c he’s a freaking no-balls coward.


37 posted on 03/02/2020 12:59:12 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: EinNYC
It's very close to Purim. Purim is a holiday where Jews everywhere celebrate the triumph of the courageous Queen Esther in exposing and overturning the plot to exterminate every single Jew in the huge Persian empire ruled by King Ahasuarus, the plot being formulated by the unspeakably evil Viceroy named Haman. To commemorate this salvation of all the Jews in the kingdom, the holiday Purim was decreed, to be celebrated forever more.

To celebrate Purim, one must go to hear the Scroll of Esther recited in the synagogue twice; once at night and once on the day of Purim (Jewish holidays start the night before). It is customary to dress up in a costume; it always cracks me up to see normally sane and sober judges, accountants, lawyers, doctors, professors, and other friends of mine dress like clowns, hippies, rock stars, burglars, etc. It is also required to gift your friends with bags containing at least two different kinds of goodies, and to donate charity to feed the poor. One overriding theme of Purim is to display wild joy at being saved from extermination; this takes many forms, but one of them is to put people on. By writing an article about a President Sanders (it should never happen to anyone!) and having vicious antisemites such as Tlaib and Omar in important cabinet positions, this article is such a put-on, it truly reads like a Purim spiel (a comically ridiculous Purim tale).

38 posted on 03/02/2020 1:19:21 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Albion Wilde; alisasny; AliVeritas; Ancesthntr; Ann Archy; archy; b4me; Basket_of_Deplorables; ...

(Please FRmail me to be added to or removed from my irregular ping list. )

39 posted on 03/02/2020 2:20:25 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

tx


40 posted on 03/02/2020 2:22:28 PM PST by pookie18
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