Unfortunately, there are far too many of them. Eighty percent of America's Jews have been in the Democratic camp for decades. NYU, my Alma Mater, was notorious for being a hot bed of radicalism, led all too often by the Jewish students.

Even the Jewish students called it NY Jew. Eighty percent (there's that number again) of the student body was Jewish.

And so many of them played the Holocaust Card that could trump all arguments. It was very disillusioning. I always thought that a Jew who was liberal was akin to being in the Gestapo.

Look at what happens to "Socialist" countries: The U.S.S.R (United Soviet Socialist Republic), N**I Germany(National SOCIALIST Workers Party)! In more recent years, look at Cuba or Venezuela. Socialists usually like to: Divide the people, pitting some group against another, gave a Civil War to really tear the country apart; Convince the Common People that they are VICTIMS who need BIG BROTHER to protect them from the rich and powerful people! When a country is torn apart by Civil Wate and Social Unrest, a "SOCIALIST HERO" steps up to rescue the people. The people are tired of fighting, economic ine******y, etc. The Dictator is able to fool the people into buying his garbage, then takes away all their Freedoms, their property, and possessions, and has anyone who won't submit to their rule k**led! THEY USUALLY TARGET YOUNG PEOPLE, because the young ones have no real experience and are easier to manipulate! They attack religion, which Marx defined as "The OPIATE OF THE MASSES" Religious people and groups usually won't submit to a KING! They like to control the Media and the teacher's unions because \"Repeat something enough and the people will believe it"

maureen, I didn't have to read your post long before I came across some outrageous misstatements.
The USSR was a Marxist c*******t empire led by a totalitarian and murderous dictator. It has nothing in common with the democratic socialists, much less the Democratic Party.
The n**i party was in no way socialist. It named itself the German workers socialist party to attract the German workers. Actually they sought the backing of the German capitalists to gain power. I was a representative of my teachers union, and I can assure you that they certainly don't control the NEA. My NEA chapter actually supported gun ownership. They were not allowed to use the word, " strike " in the representative assembly.

" Socialism is a scare word that they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last twenty years. Socialism is what they called public power, socialism is what they called Social Security, socialism is what they called farm supports, socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance, socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor unions. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."

Harry S. Truman, 1952

Speaking as a Jew, I left the Democrats during the Carter Administration and my closest surviving relatives joined me within a year after Obama took office.

Most of the Jews I know who v**e Democrat these days are Reform and Conservative Jews. In New York I knew several Orthodox and Hasidic Jews who are political conservatives.

They belong to communities that don't do a lot of mixing with the less religious but don't sit home on E******n Day, either.

My own observation is that these younger, American born Reform types haven't had much exposure to older relatives who endured the horrors of the Third Reich, the pogroms in eastern Europe that came before or any of the other prime examples of what happens when a people are docile in the face of oppressive government.

" Socialism is a scare word that they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last twenty years. Socialism is what they called public power, socialism is what they called Social Security, socialism is what they called farm supports, socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance, socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor unions. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."

Harry S. Truman, 1952