Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Most Jews being liberal is actually an example of how people's politics tend to follow down family lines (save for the rebellious kid who goes the opposite way of what his parents want.)
When Jews came to the US in the early 1900s, they were almost all broke and worked long hours in the sweatshops, often under dangerous or highly unpleasant conditions.
The Democratic Party at the time took more interest in their plight, hence Jews became Democrats. Also, there was a lot more anti-Semitism in those days, and a lot of those anti-Semites were Republicans.
As the decades passed, things rapidly changed. Jews rose from working shit jobs and living the ghetto to becoming one of the most successful segments of the population.
However, the family line of Democrats continued, and it changed from "The Democrats are helping us, so we vote Democrat" to "We are doing well, but we are voting Democrat because they are helping downtrodden people just like Jews were in the early 1900s."
While well-meaning, many Jews have kept to that same line of thinking, being taught by their parents that being a Democrat = being compassionate. Furthermore, sometimes their desire to "help" people turns into coddling, meddling, creation of victim classes, and identity politics. Again, this is all well-meaning, but it's completely gotten out of control. However, since this line of social/political thinking has been handed down for 100+ years, it's become second nature in the culture.
Some Jews like myself have broken away from this line of thinking. We realize that it's not 1900 anymore, that the Jewish people don't need the government's help, and the government's present solution to help other downtrodden people isn't correct. Different time, different people, different problems, different solutions.
Rather than being proud of the incredible self-made success of the Jewish community over the past century, many Jews unfortunately feel a guilt and self-hatred for doing well.
Slowly some Jews are waking up that the Democratic Party is no longer their friend. Left-wing anti-Semitism is hidden as simple disagreement with Israeli policies, and there's a new love affair with Muslims, and a complete denial that many of them would love to see all Jews annihilated. Jews vote Democrat, yet their own party vilifies exactly what most of them are -- white, self-made, and successful -- while at the same time apologizing for Muslims who want to kill them.
Democrats have no reason to change any of this, because they know they overwhelmingly get the Jewish vote, and more importantly, the influential Jews in society (i.e. Hollywood) are clearly in the Democratic corner.