Obama, Jewish Voters and the Lessons of 1984

Turns out there are real questions about the accuracy of that recent Quinnipiac poll showing President Obama’s approval rating at just 52 percent among Jewish voters. As the JTA’s Eric Fingerhut pointed out, the Jewish sampling “was derived from a sample of just 71 respondents, for a margin of error of plus or minus 11.6 percent — a sample size that pollsters generally say makes such surveys unreliable.”

Actually, common sense and some knowledge of Jewish voting habits should be enough to render any such poll findings suspect at best. Obama enjoys two important advantages that make him almost a shoo-in to win another landslide among Jewish voters three years from now: he’s a well-spoken, nonthreatening black man (a factor not to be underestimated when considering the voting psychology of liberal and moderate Jews), and he’s adamantly opposed to and by the Christian Right.

“It appears certain that you’ve examined the issue closely, and can demonstrate the distribution of government handouts according to religion and/or ethnicity, right? (sarc.)”

Actually, as a member (however unhappy with their socialism impairment I may be) of the American Jewish community, I have noted for decades the deeply socialist beliefs of my co-religionists.

While socialism in America nearly killed off the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth, Governor Bradford described how abandoning collectivism for individualism saved the Plymouth colony.

Squanto the Indian didn’t really save ‘em, individualism did.

The post I made is the result of examining the history of socialism/individualism from the time the Mayflower Compact was signed to today.

Jews originally in America in the time of Peter Stuyvesant, and in the Savannah Jewish colony, were not socialism impaired. Jews immigrating from Europe were socialist and their numbers swamped the original American Jews.

Socialism amongst Jews seems to be the result of confusing the Mosaic call for a just society with the evil call for collectivism masquerading as “social justice”.

They’ve been propagandized on the left for so long to believe that: 1. The Christian Right is their enemy; and 2. Israel is an oppressive state, that these two strikes together make a third. I know the attitude well, having grown up around it and outgrown it.

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