Thought For the Day

The Left is pushing a meme on the internet of “Democracy not Theocracy”.
As if the SC ruling on what is and is not in the US C is “theocracy”. It is this “woke” religion that’s most dangerous.

She’s 65 years old. Apparently never married, no children. She’s been in elective office since the age of 38. She was, by some accounts, employed in political fundraising and on legislative staff before that. She has a degree in public health. You know, that corps of specialists who have distinguished themselves mightily in the last three years. Exemplary Democratic pol.

Republicans spent years pandering to Jewish voters (most of whom love abortion) and alienating socially conservative Muslim voters. Ghouls like Sara Feigenholtz are living examples of why that approach is so stupid.

They’ve done neither.

Wow.
On the side, I had no idea that it was Jewish teaching that a baby doesn’t get a soul/become human till they take their first breath. I am dumbstruck.
I thought pics of Jewish women writing on their very pregnant bellies (not human yet) was a fringe group. 😮 What the President of Israel did, allowing more abortions due to our overturning RvW makes sense bc they allow it for a variety of reasons.

Of course they have. Unless your head is buried in the sand (and if your name is Art Deco, it is), Republicans have spent decades exalting the pro-Israel lobby and chasing off Muslim voters by promoting dumb wars.

Robert, there have in recent years been four Muslims in Congress. All of them are alienated people who rally other alienated people. In no case is it fair to say their alienation is a consequence of ‘dumb wars’. Neither are any of them ‘socially conservative’ in their policy stance, nor is it prudent to regard them as such in their mundane life. (All four of them are divorced and one of them has engaged in matrimonial shenanigans that are the stuff of comedy). About 1% of the population is Muslim, so they’re not a gold mine of votes even if they’re motivated by what you fancy they are.

It doesn’t seem to occur to you that officials of both political parties have disinterested reasons for their policy choices in the Near East, nor does it occur to you that normal Americans are not hostile to Israel. Nor does it occur to you that a calculating pol might conclude there is nothing to be gained by being hostile to Israel. Republican politicians do not ‘pander to Jews’. They are simply not motivated to take the policy stances you fancy should be the default setting.

Here’s the problem with people like Robert…they conflate some Jews with all Jews

He may have that problem, too, but that’s not salient for this discussion. Robert’s problem, and it’s not one particulary obtrusive in paleo circles but is the proverbial sore thumb on the alt-right (American Renaissance, Unz Review) is that he assumes his hostility to Jews and his wish to see them injured is something other than the pathology that it is. So, people who have a benign disposition toward the Jews must have some sort of malign motive.

AFAICT, Orthodox Jews in the United States tend to be conservative in their political dispositions or to regard politicians as fungible. I think this is true of post-communist immigrants outside of orthodoxy as well. The rest of the Jewish population in this country tend to be suckers for bad causes. This has been true here at least since the early 20th century. You can see this abroad as well, though not in Israel and not in Britain. I have a suspicion that if you assembled a bibliography on the subject, most of the literature on why American Jewry is like this would be apologetical in character, with a few entries by the Jewish population’s detractors (e.g. Kevin MacDonald). Maybe there are neutral descriptive studies as well, but wouldn’t bet on it.