Sunday, August 19, 2012

Why Jews Are So Liberal



 

   
Dennis Prager says the most frequently asked question he receives from non-Jews about Jews is, why are Jews so liberal?   A question I've asked a thousand times.  He lists, in no order of importance,  six reasons.  Here are two of the six.  Good job Mr. Prager.

Rob Reiner prosthelytizes Liberalism

2. More than any other major religion, Judaism has always been preoccupied with this world. The (secular) Encyclopedia Judaica begins its entry on "Afterlife" by noting that "Judaism has always affirmed belief in an afterlife." But the preoccupation of Judaism has been making this world a better place. That is why the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) is largely silent about the afterlife; and it is preoccupied with rejecting ancient Egyptian values. That value system was centered on the afterlife — its bible was the Book of the Dead, and its greatest monuments, the pyramids, were tombs.

3. Most Jews are frightened by anything that connotes right wing — such as the words "right-wing" and "conservative." Especially since the Holocaust, they think that threats to their security emanate from the Right only. (It is pointless to argue that Nazism stood for National Socialism and therefore was really a leftist ideology. Whether that is theoretically accurate doesn't matter; nearly everyone regards the Nazis as far Right, and, therefore, Jews fear the Right.) The fact that the Jews' best friends today are conservatives and the fact that the Left is the home of most of the Jews' enemies outside of the Muslim world have made little impact on Jews' psyches.


(shown standing in for Hollywood's Jews, Rob Reiner prosthelytizing Lib-think.)


cuzzin ricky

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

many/most Lib Jews have forsaken their Judaism for Liberalism.
Jews for the preservation of firearms is a wonder org, check it out.
RAK

Anonymous said...

I would argue that Left is the ally of most of the Jews' enemies inside of the Muslim world as well, but I hold that truth to be self evident.

Sir H the Comet

Wabano said...

Them Jews had no choice, Tzar Nicholas II, the one with a mouthful
of rotten teeth, was determined to kill all the Jews...look up "pogroms"...

But then, the Politburo too had no choice but to off Stalin
as he had decided to start WW III by finishing Nicholas and Hitler's
job, killing all the Russian Jews...

These traumatic events seem to have mentally
paralyzed most Hebrews into an inability
to distinguish between their friends and their enemies...
even in Israel, half of them still vote for the friends of the muslim
terrorists and in America,
most support an outright anti-semite, that clown called Obama...

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Wabano - Are we looking at centuries of culture, or decades?

Anonymous said...

As a Jewey Jew myself I can say Mr. Prager has covered all the bases.

Skoonj said...

One of the least talked about aspects of World War Two concerns Jews who brutalized East Europeans. Jews supported the communists in Russia from the start of the Soviet Union. When WW2 began, the Red Army took territory in Eastern Europe. They established exceptionally brutal prison camps, and some were staffed solely by Soviet Jews.

This arrangement caused, as you might imagine, renewed hatred for Jews across Eastern Europe, and cooperation with the Germans by locals who were brutalized.

The Jewish affinity with the left has caused them no end of trouble.

Anonymous said...

The idea of not wanting to be associated with the "right" because of Hitler is a hoot. Mussolini's background was in Italian socialism. Hitler's party was the National Socialist German Workers Party; more of its founding platform dealt with socialism then anti-Semitism and that is saying a lot. Stalin, the guy who labeled the founder of the Red Army a fascist, labeled them "right wing" and saps still believe it. Planned economies, whether thru true socialism, soviets or crony capitalism are pure left wing.

Freddie Sykes

Anonymous said...

I was knocked back when I learned that many, many liberal US Jews are embarrassed by the Israelis.

Anonymous said...

Traitors for $200, Alex.

Q: The idiots that stole atomic secrets and gave them to the Soviets?

A: Who were the Rosenbergs?

Cognitive dissonance bouncing around in my head.

Votes are cast for President O because he "Cares".
They forget that FDR, apparently their patron, didn't lift a finger prior to 1941 to help refugees wearing the Star of David, and we're not too certain even after Dec 7...

tomw

Steve in Greensboro said...

There are many Jewish denominations including "conservative", "orthodox", "reform", but most leftist Jews are "self-hating"...

Cheesy said...

Another question might be, "Why did the early Jews repeatedly violate the laws of their God?"
Maybe they're really just contrarians.

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