PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on October 27, 2019, 05:40:43 PM
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/jews_will_not_abandon_the_democrats_even_as_the_democrats_abandon_them.html
The quip among Jewish Republicans about President Obama’s trafficking with anti-Semites was that he was so popular with American Jews that had he nuked Tel Aviv, he would have lost no more than 30% of the Jewish vote.
The affinity for American Jews for the Democrat Party has long been a political curiosity. The distinguished essayist Milton Himmelfarb observed that in America, Jews had attained the socioeconomic status of Episcopalians, but for some reason they continued to vote like Puerto Ricans.
Nothing seems to dissolve the sinew that ties Jews to the Democrats. President Obama’s association with the anti-Semitic Rev. Jeremiah Wright brought a collective yawn. Photos of Barrack Obama embracing the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, who compared Jews to termites, did not concern them.
The anti-Semitic diatribes of the so-called “Squad” have been dismissed as a minority voice among the Democrats that would be easily controlled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The House resolution condemning boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel was showcased for having been passed, while ignoring that of the 17 votes against it, 16 came from Democrats.
The positions on Israel of Democratic presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders should send chills up the spine of the Jewish community, but they do not. Warren and Sanders would cut off aid to Israel and unless Israel returns to what Abba Eban appropriately called the Auschwitz Borders.
On college campuses, Jews are forbidden access to the marketplace of ideas unless they parrot leftist newspeak. The Arab/Israeli conflict is described in mythical terms of colonialism, ignoring that the Arabs ethnically cleansed Jews from Jerusalem and the territories, and by the end of the 19th century, Jerusalem was a Jewish, not a Muslim city.
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Difference between American Jews and Israelis.
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Difference between American Jews and Israelis.
I have some conservative American Jewish friends and Israeli friends. They tell me the large issue with American Jews is that many are SECULAR PROGRESSIVE Jews and are Jews in name only and culturally liberal/progressive/statist because they've always been that way.
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Maybe this is where it all started:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/why_do_american_jews_vote_for_democrats.html
TLDR:
There was a big fire in 1911 and a lot of Jewish women died so they got Democrats to form unions and they have seen the Democrats as for the little guy ever since.
So, like blacks, there is a collective groupthink several generations old that they can’t seem to break out of no matter how much the real world has changed.
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Maybe this is where it all started:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/why_do_american_jews_vote_for_democrats.html
TLDR:
There was a big fire in 1911 and a lot of Jewish women died so they got Democrats to form unions and they have seen the Democrats as for the little guy ever since.
So, like blacks, there is a collective groupthink several generations old that they can’t seem to break out of no matter how much the real world has changed.
Samuel Gompers, the father of the U.S. Union movement and founder of what became the very powerful union the AFL was Jewish. They have a propensity for collectivism, as many had Communist roots in Russia, and Eastern Europe. The union movement is a collectivist, pro-communist movement. Yes, there was a need for unions in the early industrialization period in the U.S. but they are longer necessary.