While I FIRMLY believe it is too late to change anyone's mind about this election and that the ONLY useful thing you can do is to DRIVE SOMEONE TO VOTE who might not otherwise use their voting right this year.. THIS ARTICLE from Michael Medved (who appears a lot on TV) is very interesting reading.
Some of Medved's insights are very interesting to me. For example, ever wonder why so many of your friends who are Jews are life-long Democrats? Medved says:
"Republicans claimed credit for the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924, all but eliminating the flow of humanity from Eastern and Southern Europe, and as a result vast numbers of ethnic voters (Italians, Poles, Jews, Greeks and more) became loyal Democrats for a generation or more.
This shift in immigrant voters played a huge role in the establishment of the New Deal Coalition that won five Presidential elections in a row (1932 through 1948) and totally dominated Congress for an appalling fifty years (1930-1980)."
Personally, my greatest fear is this:
"He will also get the chance to appoint at least two, and perhaps as many as four new justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. All legal observers expect Obama’s nominees to embrace an even more activist, leftist view of the Constitution and legal system than Clinton’s appointees, Breyer and Ginzburg. The damage from the remaking of the court could prove incalculable. "
READ MedVed's whole article
2 comments:
Hey Frank, Love your blog even though I'm a typical Jewish Liberal--seriously.
I disagree wtih Medved. Jewish culture is a strange mix of business savvy and a long history of unionization, liberal causes, and outright socialism. Many of the Jews that came over from Eastern and other parts of Europe years back had very socialistic beliefs, which eventually morphed into Liberalism. With their history of oppression Jews also had a natural affinity for civil rights causes, though there was lots of friction between Jews and Blacks in the 70's as I'm sure you know.
Liberalism is a part of the culture, though fading these days.
And, might I add, many see unions (particularly the Teacher's Union) and postwar liberal programs like the GI Bill, VA loans, and free college Tuition at New York's City University as having given them the ticket to the good life and INdependence, not dependence--something Conservatives often forget. Free tuition at City University in particular is responsible for making it possible to educate a huge generation of Jewish doctors, scientists, professors, lawyers, and businessmen. Sometimes programs like these BOOST the economy. They don't ALWAYS drain it.
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