'The Left in America Has Really Let Us
Down': Some American Jews Reassess the
Progressive Left
Hot Air,
by
John Sexton
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
10/24/2023 12:30:40 AM
I first noticed this topic about 10 days ago when Michelle Goldberg wrote about it. Simply put, American Jews who polls show mostly lean left, have been shocked and dismayed by the reaction of fellow progressives to the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Over the weekend there were several good pieces about this topic. First up is one published yesterday bt the Free Press. Author Konstantin Kisin says he heard a friend joke that some people woke up as progressive on Oct. 7 and went to bed as conservatives.
A friend of mine joked that she woke up on October 7 as a liberal
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 10/24/2023 12:31:16 AM (No. 1584540)
These progressives are decreed outside the sphere of woke intersectionality, and are therefore targets.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/24/2023 12:47:54 AM (No. 1584543)
the jews have to remember that the commies don't like them as much as the Nazi's didn't like them and, I guess, as long as they're in denial about that they'll continue to vote demcommie
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 10/24/2023 1:17:12 AM (No. 1584547)
They like your money. You, not so much. It's not a good feeling being betrayed. Is it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 10/24/2023 1:57:38 AM (No. 1584559)
Baa Baa, I thought you needed me, Baa Baa
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/24/2023 2:54:31 AM (No. 1584566)
Sot the Left has let you down. What did you expect? Also there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Good Witchcraft.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jubal 10/24/2023 2:58:40 AM (No. 1584569)
Damn!! It's about time.
What took so long?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/24/2023 3:29:05 AM (No. 1584581)
“The events of the last two weeks have shattered the illusion that wokeness is about protecting victims and standing up for persecuted minorities. This ideology is and has always been about the one thing many of us have told you it is about for years: power. And after the last two weeks, there can be no doubt about how these people will use any power they seize: they will seek to destroy, in any way they can, those who disagree.”
We’ve been telling you: the only thing the socialist/communist knows and cares about is power. P O W E R.
Anything and anyone in their way will be collateral damage.
Welcome to reality. Now, what are you going to do about it?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/24/2023 4:17:16 AM (No. 1584591)
Since the Golda Meir tour of America seventy-some years ago, American Jews have been frequently unsupportive of Israel in its quest for peace among Arab neighbors. But maybe the anti-Semitic behavior now being experienced here in the US will bring home the 'stand together or fall together' reality all Jews must face everywhere.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 10/24/2023 4:28:23 AM (No. 1584594)
"You effed up, you trusted us."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FJB 10/24/2023 4:39:59 AM (No. 1584600)
Blacks best remember the same thing about Democrat hatred next time they head to the polls--not as though that's ever going to matter again, right Barry?
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FJB 2022 23 24 10/24/2023 4:43:38 AM (No. 1584602)
Jews like blacks, used and abused and abandoned by the Democratic party. Better to wake up now than not at all, I guess.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 10/24/2023 5:02:52 AM (No. 1584606)
Took them long enough to see they're being pimped.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pixelero 10/24/2023 5:59:03 AM (No. 1584623)
Statistically, in raw terms (measurable IQ) Ashkenazi Jews— who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and compose about 90–95% of American Jewish people— are the smartest people in the world, and 2.4% of the U.S. adult population.
Idealism and classically Liberal thinking are products of learning and reflection, themselves characteristics of applied intelligence and the spirit of inquiry.
Harmony among mankind and remediation of evils like ignorance, poverty, racism and heinous generalization in thinking itself are the natural goals produced by intelligent analysis.
Yet it is just this discernment that is so hurtfully seductive: pride goes before the fall, and the pride of believing one knows what’s best for one’s fellow man is the most seductive self-aggrandizing pridefulness of all.
Borne of Rousseau’s notion of the Noble Savage, rhe Perfectibility of Man is the collectivist ideal, but the Judeo-Christian notion of Original Sin is— although a cruder instrument— closer to the truth of human existence.
Man wants government. We are all at base killer apes, and universal education and its enlightenments are not adequate to hold back the beast within.
Every Liberal shibboleth assumes a shared ideal, but in their hearts humans wish to break things, and to acquire. The Liberal Intellectual Mandate wishes to acquire power ostensibly for good, but that good has universally become this graven idol of man’s perfectibility, a complex of assumptions inadequate to man’s true bestial and acquisitive nature.
Without God who will govern them? Intellect is not nearly enough.
American Jews, like American Liberals, are overdue for a political version of Saul’s illumination on their own road to Damascus. One hopes it may not be too late.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
5 handicap 10/24/2023 6:48:45 AM (No. 1584649)
Karl Marx, officially atheistic, was born Jewish. His philosophy has come back to bite so many fellow non religious or reform Jews in the Ass. The Haredi, however are mostly conservative...God Bless them!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Golden Goose 10/24/2023 8:42:47 AM (No. 1584748)
They can be taught!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 10/24/2023 9:17:54 AM (No. 1584793)
It's not like the democommunists haven't given enough evidence of their hated of the Jews. Obozo tried to hide it to a certain extent, until the Israeli president came to the White House and was forced to enter and leave by the back door. Apparently, that wasn't enough of an insult to the Jewish community.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rinktum 10/24/2023 9:25:49 AM (No. 1584811)
If this horrific tragedy wakes up people to the truth, good. I am devastated by what happened and hope that some good can come out of the abhorrent violence directed at the innocent. There is one villain in this scenario, the Palestinians along with anyone who supports them in word or deed. It is disturbing that massive protests on behalf of the Palestinians can occur around the world. Unless you are a progressive ideologue, there is a clear division in this fight. It is one of good versus evil. There can be no quarter given. Palestinians have committed war crimes against the Israelis. Period end of story, there is NO justification for this kind of carnage against babies, children, men and women and the elderly. The fact these barbarians have the nerve to show their faces in public and scream Palestinians are the victims is appalling. Anyone protesting on behalf of the Palestinians should be escorted out of this country to the nearest Islamic country and dropped off there. Let them experience first hand what it means to live side by side with these people and see how peaceful they really are.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
czechlist 10/24/2023 9:32:39 AM (No. 1584820)
Psalm 146:3
Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
CivilServant 10/24/2023 10:26:52 AM (No. 1584872)
Well my fellow lantsmen are finally figuring out the Left considers them toilet paper; there to be used and flushed away when done.
But I am skeptical that the lesson will stick.
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Better late than never.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 10/24/2023 11:44:51 AM (No. 1584949)
Unfortunately, the number rethinking their politics will be miniscule. This has happened many times before, and the "Jews vote Democrat" rule seems to be branded on their brains. Voting against your interests decade after decade - difficult to understand, but they do it. I cannot explain it rationally, only observe that it is a fact, and shake my head in sadness.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
EVRgreen4058 10/25/2023 11:38:49 AM (No. 1585653)
Isn't it about time American Jewish voters realize where their support comes from and it certainly isn't from their progressive buddies !!!
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