So you name a couple. Big deal. Do they ever bash THEIR OWN DEMOGRAPHIC for its disproportionate presence in leftism, the way mine bashes itself? What are their views on Israel's actions? Do they admit to their responsibility for the rise of Communism and what that did? Or do they stick to safe anti-leftism bashing, which is worthless at best and a cynic might see as plausible deniability?
(Apologies, this is going to be long).
I got a question? Why? Why should we rend our clothes for your beef? Seriously. I gotta attack my own people to prove my anti-communist bonifides or the fact I am a Reagan Republican? Um...no.
Pal, got a news flash for you. My own family, every male with the exception of me (Epilepsy) has served since World War I. I was more than ready to do my part in the Fulda Gap making sure those commie bastards (and make no mistake, they are) stayed on their side of the IGB. Figures they toss in the towel before I got my turn.
My family has killed Nazis, Imperial Japanese, and Communists on the battlefield. And I am someone who has voted GOP since George HW Bush. So please, can it. And pick up a book?
Do I think my bretheren who vote knee-jerk Democrat are idiots? Yes. But demanding some sort of rending of clothes and contrition for some mythical involvement in the rise of communism?
Most of the Soviet leadership hated Jews. Anti-semitism under the Czars was brutal and vicious. The Soviets were not much better. Why did Jews even support Lenin? Simple. Because of the Czar. And yes, Lenin lied to them. No kidding, he lied to everyone. Ask the sailors of Krondstadt, well, you can't. Lenin slaughtered them after pushing them to rebel against him, and these sailors had been among the most loyal Bolsheviks.
As for Jews here? Why do we vote Democrat? Two reasons, a)tradition. Grandpa voted Democrat, Dad voted Democrat, Mom did, Aunt Ethel did? Get it? You don't buck that, at least, not easily.
As for the second reason? Well, when Jews arrived? The Dems were the first party to embrace them in the 1940s. That's really when we as a people began to assimilate. The war changed a lot of things for us here. In fact? American and Israeli Jews are very, very different in thoughts as a result of different experiences.
As for my support of Israel? Let's keep one thing in mind. Hitler sadly, murdered half the Jews of Europe, and displaced a majority of the rest. Many families were GONE. And not just the families, but the records. I researched my past recently. I was surprised they found my family's records all the way back to my great-great-great grandfather buried in Estonia. I would have thought the Germans plowed under the damn cemetary and destroyed the records of the Synogogue. (They did that, a lot). Israel is Judism's insurance policy. Given 5700 years of Jewish history? You'll forgive our feeling of we're done letting people kill us, or did you miss the bit in my sig?
Oh, and before you bring up the Rosenbergs or Pollard? The Rosenbergs deserved what they got. Yes, they were caught red-handed. And they still believed in the old Communist lie. So did Alger Hiss. Guilty as sin. I am an American? As such, I believe they betrayed us and gave the Soviets help with their bomb project. My sympathies do not reside with them. Pollard was an ass, who sold out the US for money. He should have been executed as a spy. Shame he was not.
