Posted on 05/23/2021 6:35:41 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Thank goodness she want a mediocre painter.
Wasn’t
Yep!
The Democratic party has enabled Jewish Democrats to be over-represented in Congress for decades. Take one example: for 30 years California had two Jewish Democratic US Senators, both of them woman. There are about 1.2 million Jews in California, or about 3% of the population. California, now that the Democratic Party operates on an explicit racial spoils system, is unlikely to award both Senate seats to this small, privileged minority. Latinos make up 38% of Californians, and, as the saying goes: "want to be represented by someone who looks like me"
What's happening now is that the People of Color are standing up and saying: "Thanks for everything, we will represent ourselves now". Boxer was replaced with Harris, the Hindu and black mixed race woman. When Feinstein finally retires she, too, will likely be replaced by some sort of POC.
The Jewish Telegraph Agency (A Jewish newspaper) keeps track of how many of their own are in Congress:
Here are the 37 Jewish members of Congress
Based on their numbers Jews are 3X more common in Congress as in the nation. And because they are almost all Democrats, that means they are somewhere near 6x over-represented in that party.
So, as the inevitable rebalancing happens it's unlikely that the new Democratic politicians, many Latino or other POC, will carry the same support for Israel as the Jews they are replacing.
Of course there is still money as a tool of influence. And rich Jewish donors are the lifeblood of Democratic Party fundraising. Here is the list of top bundlers for Joe Biden in 2020 (from Open Secrets.org) (cut off at $4 million)
Name | City | State | Employer | *Contributions by bundler 1990-2020 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Steyer | San Francisco | CA | Advocacy & Philanthropy | $309,351,096 | |
Haim Saban | Los Angeles | CA | Saban Capital Group | $40,732,811 | |
Karla Jurvetson | Los Altos | CA | Jurvetson, Karla T, Office | $35,174,475 | |
Deborah Simon | Carmel | IN | Simon Youth Foundation | $26,513,135 | |
Susan & Stephen Mandel | Greenwich | CT | Lone Pine Capital | $25,756,068 | |
Reid Hoffman | San Francisco | CA | Linkedin Corp | $21,365,003 | |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | Los Angeles | CA | DreamWorks Animation SKG | $15,493,946 | |
Elizabeth Simons & Caitlin Heising | Atherton | CA | Article 3 Advisors | $15,205,504 | |
Michael Sacks | Chicago | IL | Entrepreneur | $12,390,263 | |
Lise Strickler & Mark Gallogly | New York | NY | Centerbridge Partners | $10,405,871 | |
Jonathan A. Soros | New York | NY | Js Capital Management | $6,778,661 | |
Sonya & Tom Campion | Seattle | WA | Campion Foundation | $6,228,101 | |
Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine | Boston | MA | Bain Capital | $6,121,100 | |
Lisa S. Pritzker | San Francisco | CA | Geolo Capital | $5,745,746 | |
John D. Goldman | Atherton | CA | Philanthropist | $5,698,501 | |
John Doerr | San Carlos | CA | Kleiner, Perkins et al | $5,613,084 | |
Amy & Rob Stavis | Larchmont | NY | Unemployed | $5,414,403 | |
John Eddie Williams | Houston | TX | Williams, Hart et al | $5,401,397 | |
Susie Tompkins Buell | San Francisco | CA | Susie Tompkins Buell Foundation | $5,208,353 | |
Jonathan Gray | New York | NY | Blackstone Group | $4,942,390 | |
Jeffrey Gural | New York | NY | GFP Real Estate | $4,819,594 | |
Patricia Duff | New York | NY | Edwin C Chapman, Md PC | $4,580,059 | |
Neil Bluhm | Chicago | IL | Art Institutes | $4,552,406 | |
Ron Conway | San Francisco | CA | SV Angel Venture Capital | $4,468,952 | |
George Krupp | Chestnut Hill | MA | Berkshire Group | $4,253,596 |
He also said, “And therefore, it’s going to be harder to just stick to the old line of essentially unquestioning support for the policies of the Israeli government.” And “It’s just simply a fact that there was never this kind of pressure vocally from the left on issues related to Israel during the Obama years.”So what was that when Obama snubbed Netanyahu from a WH dinner and official recognition of his visit:
As for the top donors, Jewish sounding names doesn't make one Jewish. Tom Steyer is an Episcopalian with a Jewish father, who didn't raise him. Jonathan Soros is a son and grandson of atheist antisemites of Jewish descent.
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