Posted on 11/01/2004 2:16:04 PM PST by quidnunc
Once upon a time most American Jews were underprivileged, and most of them voted Democrat. Then their circumstances changed, but their political allegiances remained unaltered. Around 30 or 40 years ago there was a joke which said that American Jews live like Episcopalians (i.e., relatively rich, privileged people) but vote like Puerto Ricans.
The remark was a bit racist, perhaps, but it was essentially true. Everyone knew what it meant. Only it is not true anymore. Puerto Ricans, like other Hispanics, have moved on. They now vote in a pluralistic way in accordance with their developing economic interests, ethnic concerns, and views of what is good for America as a whole. In 2000, the Hispanic vote for George W. Bush was more than 50 percent greater than the Jewish vote.
This year American Jews remain as intransigent as ever. Jews, more than almost any other group in the US, are set to vote against Bush by large margins.
Polls indicate that 69% of Jews will vote Kerry tomorrow, and only 24% for Bush. And 3% will vote for Ralph Nader, the strongly anti-Israel independent candidate of Arab descent who, according to polls, commands less than half that support among non-Jewish Americans.
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Naturally, many Jews will vote on issues completely unrelated to foreign policy or their own economic status issues of social justice, abortion, gay rights, and so on. But much more than usual, this is a foreign policy election. Right now, the right not to get your head chopped off seems more important than that of, say, gay marriage.
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You hit the nail on the head.
After all, the underlying cause of high intermarriage rates in the Jewish community is the hatred of Christians theyre raised with.
Jews aspire to grow up, marry a Christian, and spit on them.
BTW, divisive on election day?
I'd award that prize goes to yapping about an Israeli who spit on a Priest, a despicable act as he's admitted, on a conservative Republican site discussing an article wondering why Jews don't move to the Republican party.
Look in the mirror.
The problem is not that you brought it up --- hey, it's still a free country! And, I am as much or more (being Jewish myself) concerned as you are that Jews voted predominantly Democratic. I can't wait for that idiocy to stop.
No, the problem is not that you brought it up but how you did that --- the criterion that you applied. Bush is nice to Jews but they betray him. Nice in terms of what --- tax cuts? Since when to we, Jews, benefit particularly greatly from that? Oh, yeh, I forgot: we are all RICH.
And we are not loyal, you see. Look how Jews respond to their friend G.W> Bush. You just revel in ugly stereotypes. That is the problem.
You too have a good day. Hopefully, we all will have a good day and celebrate the victory of George W. Bush.
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