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To: Nonstatist
Richard Scammon wrote in "The Real Majority" in the late-1960's that the Jewish community was more entrenched with the Democrats than the Catholics, who would later become the core of "Reagan Democrats" and eventually "pro-life" Republicans. However, the element of "tradition" (my granddad voted for FDR, my dad for JFK, so I'm a lifelong Democrat) is abating, as is the influence of religious affiliation on members of the Jewish community. There are currently 12.3 million Jews in the world (down about a half-million from ten years ago). There are 5-million in Israel and 5.9 in the U.S. At this rate, Israel will have more Arab and Christian residents than Jewish ones in the next 20 years, making governance by Jews in a Jewish state more challenging, if not impossible. Furthermore, more Jews are either not identifying themselves as Jews (due to things such as intermarriage) or consider themselves cultural rather than Jewish by religion.

In the long run, because of high reproduction rates, the Arabs will outnumber the Jews in the U.S. electorate within the next decade. Consequently, with declining electoral numbers, Jewish influence will come as a result of money or being in places of high influence. With these considerations, critical thinkers within the Jewish community should carefully reconsider their blind loyalty to the Democrat party, what it has gotten them, and what it will deliver in the future.

39 posted on 05/07/2003 9:56:09 AM PDT by MHT
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To: MHT
"With these considerations, critical thinkers within the Jewish community should carefully reconsider their blind loyalty to the Democrat party, what it has gotten them, and what it will deliver in the future."

Blind loyalty has got Jews nowhere whichever political party they have supported. Every religion (although Roman Catholicism has been by far the worst in this respect) have persecuted and murdered Jews. Every political party from both right and left has abandoned the Jewish people when it proved expedient for them to do so.

Your figures about Israel are also incorrect unless you include the territories which I cannot forsee being in Israel's hands in 20 years.

Incidentally, I don't imagine your rather unsubtle threats will do much to endear American Jews to your cause either.
43 posted on 05/07/2003 10:03:29 AM PDT by Tarsk
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