Comments on: Why Are Jews Liberals?

By: Lorenzo (from Oz

Lorenzo (from Oz — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:21:29 +0000

Compare what so many conservatives say about gays now, and equal rights for gays, with what was previously said about Jews (or blacks). Same accusations, same claims that defense of tradition, “decency” and God requires repressing these depraved people and their outrageous demands. Mr Ron Rosenbaum, you have a point.

By: Rashputin

Rashputin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:22:15 +0000

“And while the Democratic Party was, yes, made up of a bizarre alliance of Southern racists and northern liberals, the support of Northern liberal democrats for the civil right movement earned liberalism, for me, a lifelong allegiance.”

That’s funny, I mean, really funny to someone who grew up in the South and got his ass kicked by “Young Democrats” for playing baseball with the black kids. Every office in every county and state was controlled by democrats down this way, and there wasn’t any doubt about what they thought of either blacks or northern liberals. If you swore allegiance based on what northern liberals were saying to you, you swore allegiance to people who were well aware that telling you one thing while supporting something else would hook you.

You may think the groups from the north that headed south for discussions with their fellow democrats were all supporters of Civil Rights, but they weren’t. There were groups that came to plan strategy with the local democrats and told them they wanted to help make sure republicans didn’t, “start Yankee occupation all over again”. You were manipulated and continue to be manipulated. You’re a wonderful example of what people who are betrayed but love their betrayers are like. You poor SOB, you’ve got a horrible case of the Stockholm Syndrome and don’t even know it.

Have a nice day

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:36:33 +0000

Everything changes, nothing changes. Liberals like to think of themselves as modern. They aren’t. They are just people who like to flog a dead horse. They never stop trying to ‘revive’ that horse. In the high flush of their ego and finite understanding they once again instruct us of their so called wisdom.
Their liberal ideas go back to the earliest days when instead of rejecting the lower standards around them, they would embrace them. These standards are elevated in their minds as being some kind of ideal. It is their belief that this will promote harmony. Once again, this elevated ideal will fail, like it always has for endless centuries. Harmony does not come from elevating impossible situations. It comes from working with understanding on what is doable, not with what is impossible. As long as these liberals keep flogging the impossible and demanding elevated status, there will be no harmony. When it once again, crashes down, like it always has throughout history, there will be a time of quiet reflection. But as history goes, not for long. The blinders will be back in another generation, storming the ‘new’ elevated ideals once again.
Accept what is possible. Find ways and means in working on what can lastingly be achieved. It is time to take a long hard look, at just what deserves to be elevated.

By: Charles R. Williams

Charles R. Williams — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:57:14 +0000

Two important principles were at stake for conservatives in the early sixties. Opposition to the civil rights legislation was in fact principled. The first principle is property rights of individuals and the second principle was federalism. For Republican conservatives, opposition to civil rights legislation was not racism, but the need to come to terms with fundamental issues of conflicting principle.

And it is fair to say that once the legislative issue was settled, Republican conservatives embraced the need for it. Republican liberals, and there once were plenty of them, supported this legislation from the start.

The Democratic Party has completely corrupted the principles embodied in this legislation and did so immediately by promoting an identity politics that turns this legislation upside down. Since the sixties it has been Republicans who honor the principles of the civil rights movement.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:40:03 +0000

“…by the anti-semitic radio priest Charles Caughlin.”

Fr. Charles Coughlin would probably be upset with being described as a socialist—but that’s what he was. At the end of the day, the radio priest believed in wealth redistribution. He was literally more economically left-wing than Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Dealers. Fr. Coughlin didn’t think FDR was sufficiently radical!

By: Monkeyshines

Monkeyshines — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:59:49 +0000

@ wancow

“Social Justice” was not invented by Hitler, though interestingly enough it was used as the name of a newspaper by the anti-semitic radio priest Charles Caughlin.

As to your claim that “All liberals ARE FASCISTS if they’re not Socialists.”, would you perhaps care to explain why the actual Fascists, the people who invented the term and used it to describe themselves, spent so much time inveighing against liberalism? For example:

“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”
-Benito Mussolini

Perhaps you had better take an Attivan

By: Tcobb

Tcobb — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:26:09 +0000

Why are Jews liberals? I don’t know, but I suspect, that it flows from the Jewish culture that places a high emphasis upon learning.

I don’t know, but I suspect, that because of this Jews, as a group, are much more likely to have a college degree than many of the other groups that we tend to divide our society into.

And what do they teach/indoctrinate in most colleges? A very “liberal” world view. That’s the key. There’s nothing inherent in Judaism about being “liberal.”

By: Tim R

Tim R — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:04:53 +0000

Hey, Conservatives, ever wonder what happened to those racist southern Democrats who opposed civil rights? They had a massive and well-documented exodus to your party. And now they form the spinal column of your unabashedly homogenous coalition. How is it possible that you all do not realize this? You might, from time to time, examine those one-size-fits-all factoids Sean Hannity feeds to you. Such scurrilous characters are not above lying and misrepresentation. I used to believe what they say about the very much lower IQs on your side of the aisle, and then I thought, nah: Just immature and super snobby of me. Now I think the issue really ought to be studied in a responsible, cross-cultural, big budget kind of way.

By: james

james — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:06:36 +0000

Sorry, but no cigar. You would be much better off pondering why there is a straight line from Marx and Trotsky to Mark Rudd and David Axelrod, with the phony civil rights battles in between. Jews are liberal mostly because they are now secular, which is precisely why orthodox Jews are much more likely to be conservative. As the old saying goes, Those who believe in nothing will believe in anything. In the case of western Jews, they invented and still believe in leftist totalitarianism. (George Soros, call your office.) Why that is so is the more legitimate question. But it is ironic that much of the intellectual revolt today against Marxist totalitarianism is also coming from American Jews. Perhaps there is hope for us after all.

By: wancow

wancow — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:29:00 +0000

“the civil rights movement.”

Yet another leftist, fascist term that needs to be shown for what it is.

A “Civil Right” is granted by the Government, and is therefore a PRIVELEDGE, NOT A RIGHT!

There are only Human Rights!