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I seriously doubt that the Jewish community will start supporting the Republicans as most of them are business owners and they love their cheap, illegal labor of which the Democrats are fighting for them to keep. Any Jewish person in here want to refute that or any other reasons why they support the Democrats instead? I am aware that not all Jewish people support the Democrats though.
I seriously doubt that the Jewish community will start supporting the Republicans as most of them are business owners and they love their cheap, illegal labor of which the Democrats are fighting for them to keep. Any Jewish person in here want to refute that or any other reasons why they support the Democrats instead? I am aware that not all Jewish people support the Democrats though.
Do you realize that what you just said is imbibed with antisemitism? Most Jews are business owners? Hardly! They love them their cheap, illegal labor? Yup....those Jews sure like to hire cheap, I guess.
I'm Jewish - and appalled by what I see going on in the D Party today. The reason that Jews are (mostly) Democrat is that they like to defend whomever they see as the "underdog" - and these days those are Muslims/Palestinians, illegal aliens, and blacks - because they think the root of all evil is inequality. (That's also why you will see them diminish the traits that lead to success - such as discipline, motivation, intelligence, the willingness to make sacrifices, etc.)
And it doesn't matter if these "underdogs" are even somewhat at fault in any way; Dems will rally to their cause. That's also why you see them shrug off (or even defend) anti-Semites like Omar and Tlaib. They recognize that Jews, as a whole, have succeeded above the average, and thus they need no defense.
The whole idea of "Jexodus" is pretty much a made-up farce. Basically the brainchild of a few right wing activists promoting a meme, which has little evidence of numbers to show for it. The face of it, literally, is a 23-year-old former model, Elizabeth Pipko.
Do you realize that what you just said is imbibed with antisemitism? Most Jews are business owners? Hardly! They love them their cheap, illegal labor? Yup....those Jews sure like to hire cheap, I guess.
I'm Jewish - and appalled by what I see going on in the D Party today. The reason that Jews are (mostly) Democrat is that they like to defend whomever they see as the "underdog" - and these days those are Muslims/Palestinians, illegal aliens, and blacks - because they think the root of all evil is inequality. (That's also why you will see them diminish the traits that lead to success - such as discipline, motivation, intelligence, the willingness to make sacrifices, etc.)
And it doesn't matter if these "underdogs" are even somewhat at fault in any way; Dems will rally to their cause. That's also why you see them shrug off (or even defend) anti-Semites like Omar and Tlaib. They recognize that Jews, as a whole, have succeeded above the average, and thus they need no defense.
No, no, no, it isn't anti-Semitic. It's a 'trope.' Besides, everyone knows most Jews don't have time to run businesses with cheap, illegal labor because they're too busy running the world.
The irony of you calling someone myopic when you believe 90% of a voting bloc is living on a plantation...
I assume you agree that that person was myopic on that issue.
Otherwise, you would have posted THAT post, and made your argument against it, instead of picking a completely different post, with different issues, and responding with a whataboutism.
Historically, 25% of Jews vote for republicans. 24% voted for Trump.
I recently saw another poster say 80% of Jews are Democrats. Now it is 90%?
Somehow, we just went from 1 in 4, to 1 in 10, overnight.
And yes. I believe the other 75% are voting against their own interests out of misplaced loyalty to the Democratic Party.
You can make an argument that I am wrong, but to call my argument myopic, is misuse of the word “myopic”.
The U.S. Department of Justice documents that in 2014, 19 percent or over 12,000 criminal cases filed by prosecutors were for violent crimes; and over 22 percent or 13,300 cases were for drug related felonies.
That same year, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 75 percent of all criminal defendants who were convicted and sentenced for federal drug offenses were illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants were also involved in 17 percent of all drug trafficking sentences and one third of all federal prison sentences.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that as of 2014, illegal immigrants were convicted and sentenced for over 13 percent of all crimes committed in the U.S.
According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accounting Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders.
Illegal immigrants clearly commit a level of violent and drug related crimes disproportionate to their population.
I've posted this previously but it bears repeating:
In addition, in April 2005, the GAO released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following: Of the 55,322 illegal aliens studied, researchers found that they were arrested a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien.
They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien.
49% had previously been convicted of a felony, 20% of a drug offense; 18% a violent offense, and 11%, other felony offenses.
81% of the arrests occurred after 1990
56% of those charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
Defendants charged with unlawful reentry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies.
OK. What about all the financial institutions the Democratic Party (and yes, the Republican Party too) is beholden to? How many Goldman Sachs employees infiltrate their ranks?
You don't think that THEY are heavily invested in companies that pollute? It is not like we are talking about 6 degrees of separation here. Just 1.
I'm not talking "what about".
I'm talking simple policy and what they envision for the populace in general.
Wall Street in, in effect, non-political. They will fund Google as well as they will fund Exxon. They are bankers. Bankers are always part of any economic system.
I'm sure I am invested in both banks and fossil fuel companies. It doesn't mean I am a Republican and that I wish for EPA rollbacks and more pollution.
Should be easy to see...but if it takes this much explanation, perhaps not?
There is a difference. If you can't see it, well then, toss a coin or vote GOP.
Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
“I don’t think the congresswoman is anti-Semitic. I wouldn’t even put those in the same category,” Pelosi said in a CNN interview Wednesday in Dublin, Ireland, where she is traveling.
“We have no taint of that in the Democratic Party,” she said, “and just because they want to accuse somebody of that doesn’t mean that we take that bait.” Trump’s accusations, she said, were a sign that he is “out of ideas.”
Pelosi’s defense of Omar on Wednesday followed a partial defense by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, in a televised town hall gathering in Pennsylvania on Monday. Sanders said he did not consider Omar anti-Semitic, but added that she must do a “better job in speaking to the Jewish community.”
I seriously doubt that the Jewish community will start supporting the Republicans as most of them are business owners and they love their cheap, illegal labor of which the Democrats are fighting for them to keep. Any Jewish person in here want to refute that or any other reasons why they support the Democrats instead? I am aware that not all Jewish people support the Democrats though.
Quite an anti-semitic diatribe there...."most Jews are business owners".......
Beside that fact that the vast majority of Jewish people are NOT business owners, those that are usually are not in the Ag, Meatpacking, Big Construction or Golf Course development biz where they use illegal labor.
That aside, Jews - in general - are in:
Medicine, Science, Education, High-Tech, Banking and MANY other professions - usually those requiring real knowledge or graduate education. Those who are in retail, etc. are usually mom and pop and not hiring illegals.
I guess when ones to look for an excuse - or a scapegoat - they can talk themselves into anything.
"The majority (62%) of Jews are employed full or part time, as was the case in 1990 (61%). More Jewish men than women are employed (68% vs. 56%). . The majority of employed Jews (59%) work in management, business and professional/technical positions, compared to fewer non-Jews (46%). The plurality of Jews are in professional/technical positions (41%), noticeably more than is the case among non-Jews (30%). Among employed Jews, men and women are equally likely to work in management, business and professional/technical positions (60% vs. 59%)."
Please - enlighten us with your proof that "most Jews are business owners that like illegal labor" ??
I say it's as simple as this. People with higher education and more ethics tend to vote more liberally. Period. They care about others. Period.
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