[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Monzanator 4,502]

21 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I don’t know a single Jewish person that’s ever voted Republican. Every person of Jewish decent or faith I’ve known has been pretty damn liberal (the same goes for all younger American Muslims). I believe the statistics on the American Jewish vote (which is a good sized minority) is about 80-90% Democrat and 10-20% Republican. Obviously that can change from election to election, but most of the Jewish people I’ve known are generally actually well left in the political spectrum. There are different sects in the Jewish faith, and most American Jews belong to the more liberal ones. Also, assuming Jews automatically have money and power is some pretty old type viewpoints. 
 

Anti-Semiticism is still rather popular amongst the US right. Nazism was much more popular than it should have been in the 1930s and that’s one of the reasons why. During the “Red Scare”, Republicans like McCarthy (asshole) targeted prominent Jews in the US. They reused a lot of Nazi taking points wether they realized it or not. I think that caused the Jewish minority to shift well left in the US. Plus, unlike most Christians (at least in the US), Jews aren’t as hypocritical in their views. Most of them are vehemently against Trump, and quite a few view him as an anti-Semite.

 

I reckon most US Jews are secular to begin with but it's one thing that works massively in Trump's favor as his daughter married a Jewish businessman and he's more pro-Israel than a lot of these liberal Dems voters and liberal Jewish people to begin with. So Dems can't use the most obvious weapon to swing the elections. If they could somehow make Trump look like anti-Semite then he would be cooked but you simply can't because he's pushing the pile in Israel's favor like no other POTUS before him, setting up a US Embassy in Jerusalem, now talking about the legal settlements on the West Bank when the entire world thinks of them as illegal. Hell, Obama wasn't this liberal and pro-Jewish amid all his political craze. The liberal people are suddenly forced to promote "liberal Muslims" as the next great thing in politics? Like really? This idea will never overcome the decades of Jewish influence and the country's pro-Israel politics. If Obama set up the Embassy in Jerusalem he'd be praised as the progressive mind for the ages but now that Trump has done it, he's anti-semitic? Who buys this kind of nonsense?

 

PS. Back in the 50s the communist party were filled with Jewish people. It happened in Poland too. McCarthy is dismissed as lunatic now but you just have no idea what he saved you from - albeit short-term since the Vietnam War would have changed the political landscape anyway. Or if JFK lived long enough to win the second term you'd have never set a foot in Vietnam in first place (based on the Bay of Pigs disaster). That's for another debate though.

[heywoodu 15,141]

 

1. Volker is more or less breaking down the Republican talking points one by one

 

2. He is a witness called by....the Republicans! They either lie about or don't even know that this is their own witness  

 

[Olympian1010 7,976]

And...there’s a good chance that open carry may soon be legal in each ?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/supreme-court-new-york-gun-case-heller.html

[Olympian1010 7,976]

My political science professor is an international conspiracy theorist. Thinks Iran will start WW3 soon, Hayes Argentina (seems to think it’s poorer than Mexico and as poor as Guatemala), thinks America is the greatest country in the world, China is responsible for all bad things that happen to the US, etc.

 

Or he might just be an American conservative . My area is known for being home to left and right crazies (like an insane amount, in fact our gang war is between a far-right white nationalist group and a liberal group ).

 

I just wanted a basic education sir, I didn’t need your shit. I now he’s going on a rant about socialism. His about to catch a right hook if he keeps this shit up.

[bestmen 2,818]

That's why you cant host the TAISC 2020 

 

Edited November 20, 2019 by bestmen

[Vojthas 949]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

thinks America is the greatest country in the world

Don't ya all do?

[Olympian1010 7,976]

15 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Don't ya all do?

That’d be a hard no from me. Honestly, I’d say the UK is and has been for a long time.

[Olympian1010 7,976]

16 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Don't ya all do?

Y’all - spell it right ?

[heywoodu 15,141]

23 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

My area is known for being home to left and right crazies 

 

Everyone I 'know' from that area fits in one of these two categories indeed

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

That’d be a hard no from me. Honestly, I’d say the UK is and has been for a long time.

 

Yep, UK is easily the most calm and politically stable country in the world without any problems on the street or whatsoever, specifically in the past few years.