This is what happens when the Reform movement made huge inroads into American Jewish life. It divorced God from Jews and substituted nonsensical meanderings. Soul-searching deprived Jews latched onto a variety of Godless causes trying to fill up the vacuum that was left. Some got into Yoga, some became Buddhists, and a lot converted to the 'church of the DemocRATic party'. We are now realizing the fruit born of these seeds.
Do you think it also has anything to do with how far removed many American Jews are from horrors previous generations faced?
My mother’s side of the family in England dates back for hundreds of years. Generations have never experienced any persecution and my grandparents are leftists who only vote Lib Dem. I honestly have no clue how my mom turned out so conservative.
But, my paternal grandparents are (or were...they passed away) recent immigrants to America after fleeing persecution in the Soviet Union. I’m not the most observant Jew (much to the discontent of my father), but the stories they told and the pictures they showed are the reason why I, my siblings, and other family members are conservative.