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Thanks for posting.

Jewish people have to reach behind and pull off the Dems’ Kick Me I Love It signs taped there.

It’s getting so obvious that the Dems have sold them out to the Muslim and Squad bloc that staying with the Dems is really suicidal.

Dennis Prager, Jewish talk show host: When today’s Jews vote Democrat again and again they believe they are still voting for Franklin D. Roosevelt.*

* I know, I know, FDR got intelligence about the secrets that millions of Jews were getting killed in the early Holocaust and kept it quiet, and he had a chance to allow refugees to come to the US but refused it, so FDR was never truly in favor of the Jewish cause.

[I know, I know, FDR got intelligence about the secrets that millions of Jews were getting killed in the early Holocaust and kept it quiet, and he had a chance to allow refugees to come to the US but refused it, so FDR was never truly in favor of the Jewish cause.]

Context matters. FDR mounted an all-out war effort in which maybe half the country’s able-bodied adult males were drafted and 40% of the economy was harnessed. He needed every ounce of popular support he got, and Jews weren’t exactly a popular demographic then. Henry Ford got the Protocols of the Elders of Zion translated into English and widely-distributed and published a Jew-hating paper called the Dearborn Independent whose entire purpose was to alert its readers to the Jewish menace. None of this had any impact on Ford’s car sales. That’s the kind of disdain in which Jews were held, that this type of rank prejudice did not trigger a collapse in Ford sales volumes.

Think $900b is a lot to spend annually on defense? How about $10T? That kind of spending built weapon systems (the A bomb, sonar and radar) that were only theoretical before the war, but exacted a huge toll. Civilian car production ended, as well as a host of other items. Among other things, sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes were rationed.

American citizens of Japanese descent were being interned. Why would Americans care about literal foreigners, kin to another despised minority? You might say this was cynical political calculation, but it was a calculation necessary to sustain a war effort in which unprecedented demands were being made of the entire population, a hefty chunk of whom - Germans and Italians - sympathized to some extent with their ethnic brethren across the Atlantic.

FDR used every last bit of political capital he had to get the war effort going. There was nothing left for Jewish refugees, many of whom had other options (Dominican Republic, et al) but refused to lower their sights. Now, if those refugees had known beforehand they were targeted for extermination and that Hitler would conquer most of Western Europe, they would have settled for any spot of dry land. Unfortunately, only hindsight is 20-20, and these refugees paid with their lives for underestimating the threat and being too picky.