I look at my fellow Jews who are Lefty and very close to being self-hating Jews. Their love of the Democrat party is shocking now that it is obvious that the Left wants Jews dead. Academia hates Jews as does the NYTimes and the other mainstream media. Hollywood and the power elite want us dead and want the Palestinians to wipe us out.
As Ruth Wisse points out, the vast European Jewish immigration beginning in 1885 are Lefties and have been The Left since they arrived. These people never understood where they landed nor did they try. They lived firmly in the ignorant socialist communist world that they came from. No one ever tried to help them open their eyes and see where they had landed.
The 20th century passed these sad settlers by. It wasn’t an American Constitutional Republic that elected Hitler and followed Stalin in the slaughter of Jewish children and their feeble protectors. It was a strong central government that continued the pogroms of Europe.
America had two things that Jews failed to appreciate. A government deliberately designed to be weak and grass roots. A Constitution that deliberately created a divided government run by a multitude of weak states. And a set of Amendments designed to protect individuals and minorities.
That is all anyone needs to know to understand and appreciate America. Since the Jews have arrived, most of them have been part of the political movement to thwart these historic Constitutional powers. Jews were fanatic supporters of FDR in his desire to erase Supreme Court power, to weaken state governments and the ceaseless drive of the Democrats to shackle industry, support unions and control every aspect of American life.
America did have an hereditary elite that was anti-Jew, but Jews never noticed when, uniquely on the planet, the hereditary elite disappeared in America at the end of the 1950s. Jews still haven’t noticed.
America did not have laws regulating Jews’ clothing or the businesses Jews could enter. It did restrict Jews from Harvard and the elite schools but that was not like Europe where they were vastly circumscribed in every domain.
Now the big question. Why didn’t Jews realize that America was the great haven for them? Jews who came before 1885 did see this and they saw that the hereditary elites were weak outside New England. They moved everywhere else in America as my great-grandfather did. But the mass later arrivals never left New York, never left socialism, communism and labor unions. To this day, they have been cloistered Ghetto Jews who never left the Lefty ghetto of New York.