Sorry, vesta, I was dead serious. The Jewish electoral demographic really does break 2-1 for the Dems and has for a long time. It's a population which is heavily concentrated in the urban NE and coastal California, and the values of those cultures apparently matter a lot more to them than anything else does. The zealous support of Israel is dying out with the WW2 and early Boomer generations, with the domestic Liberal agenda counting for more than anything else.
I have some great friends that are among the other 1/3 of that demographic, so please don't take this as any kind of 'Dang Jooooos' post.
I am trying to wrap this around my mind and finding out that Generations do matter. With much dread, I believe you may be right.
My experience with all this comes from a few family's that came to our town and the parents of some of my classmates had those awful tattoos on their wrists. Survivors of the camps that were to us difficult to understand, as we could not belieave the EVIL even watching programs on TV of the Camps. Some EVIL is so horrid that it is difficult to believe, like a Dracula movie. The kids found their parents would not speak of what they had been through, seen and survived.
I do remember one day telling a friend I was spending my summer with my grandparents at their lake summer place and asking them if they were going to visit their grandparents. Oh No they said both sets of grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins had died in the CAMPS. ------All at once ???? MY idea of camp was fun on a lake, what the heck kind of camp did their family go to.
At 10 years old for me this was weird and only when the films came out on TV later did I understand that this was the camps they were talking about. I had to have been 14-15 when Leon Uris came out with his book Exodus and later Mela 13. I still could not believe human beings could have done these thing .
Generation's, the children of my classmates never got to see their grandparents with the tattoos, just the photos of grandparents and long gone Great parents. Story's they got from parents and History are like we today that have little understanding of our Grandparents lives. New Generation of the greatgrand kids that have the history, the faith of their ancestors, but never knew anyone that had gone through the trials and survivals of the past.
I think I understand, the older generation had parents that were too traumatised to speak of the horrors they survived. Their kids are ageing and looking for their past as horrid as it is, now the grandkids are as most of us living in today's world are generations removed from the past.
BUT, There are millions of Jews that still try to escape their country's to head for Israel, Russian as my friend and family did. These are not Jews that are 3-4 generation from the Camps, these are first generations that have lived and seen the terror first hand brought to the Jews in their life time.
The further one gets from history of family the more difficult is to understand what their history has to do with you.
