And yet, Marty Peretz and the majority of American Jews support Barack Obama. They also intensely despise Sarah Palin because of her traditional Judeo-Christian values. The Jews who seem to have their heads on straight are normally those who are members of orthodox synagogues. This may be the number one question of the election year: why are most Jews so suicidal? Why are they crapping on a friend of Israel like Governor Palin while adoring a proven radical like Barack Obama who attended an anti-Semitic church for twenty years? Will Jewish self hatred destroy Western Civilization
David Thompson, perhaps we should step back a moment and reflect on your question. How many Jewish people do you think there are …in the world? The number may surprise some folks.
How many in America? How many of those are of voting age? When we come to that number, I think you will review the “will Jewish self-hatred destroy Western Civilization” a bit overstated and perhaps a bit overwrought.
As for why Jewish Americans are liberal, that would take an analysis a bit too deep and broad for this venue. However, I am of the age…old enough to remember when the country clubs and other “clubby” Republican haunts were particularly unfriendly to certain segments of our society. Jewish people have a wonderful sense of perspective and are genetically imprinted to champion the underdog. But, to ask them to forget a wrong is one thing…to ask them to forget a slight is another.
I am of an age, old enough to remember the treatment of certain segments of our society, and I thought it wrong then and I think it is wrong now. The mistake that the Republican Party has made over these past years…is NOT that they hold onto the past sins and embrace them, but that they sit in wonder at the lingering bitterness and resentment those sins caused.
My heart is now, and always has been…with those who get picked on unfairly. I guess I am an anti-bully. Fair is fair, right is right, wrong is wrong.
My problem with Senator Obama is not that he comes from the left of center side of the political spectrum. So does Joe Lieberman. My problem, is that his closest lifelong relationships have been with people consumed with hate.
I do not, for one minute…think that African-American resentment and bitterness is based out of whole cloth imaginations. It is based upon a sordid and despicable past of horrific sins and transgressions. However, suggesting that those sins represent the modern Republican Party is a political sham.
It’s simply that there is no way that anyone is going to let them prove it. And the leftists who ate the liberals, own the other side. The Democratic Party is a vault of plantation politics…where giving a crust of bread is better than taking a beating. The “benevolent” master is better than the “malicious” one. This is a fraud in today’s America, but it has a root in history that has not been properly dug out of our soil.
Do I believe that liberals in general…and some Jewish liberals are now reacting in a knee-jerk response…that they are putting being seen as liberal over being principled as liberal?
Yes, to a large extent, I do. But don’t for a minute believe that I don’t blame equally the slights and slings and arrows that gave way to this bitterness and resentment. It’s a tough job for modern Republicans to wear the black eye of something I believe no longer exists as mainstream thought in their party. But to deny its existence, is to breathe life into the lies that keep the black eye swollen.
Senator Obama is in a special place, in a special moment in time. His lifelong associations and their worldviews are disturbing…even alarming. He has not shown enough distance from them. You won’t get people to understand or accept that position…if you harangue them for real slights they have endured. You have to drive them down their street, to get to your house.
