In Congressional District 9, New York, the voters have elected a Republican to Congress. It seems that, in the history of that District, that has never happened before. It's gotten attention nationally, and, coupled with the loss of a special election in Nevada, is causing a stir in the Democratic party. Of course, it has sent Democrat Party machinery into full spin mode. The head of the Democratic National Convention, Wasserman-Schultz,says the 9th District is a "difficult district," and the White House Jay Carney says that special elections are unique and don't say much about the electorate in general. Perhaps. Democrat voters outnumber Republicans in the district by a three-to-one margin, so the "difficult" part appears to be convincing Democrats to vote for a Democrat. It might be a wake-up call for Obama's re-election chances.
On the other hand, that might not be all there is to this election. Turner, the Republican, ran primarily on Obama's abysmal policies toward Israel, appealing to a large constituency of Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews, it is said, are more conservative than some other groups of Jews, and were upset not only by Obama's Mideast foreign policies but by the Democrat candidate's votes for gay marriage in the New York state legislature.
Now, this is a delicate subject, and hopefully can be analyzed without offending anyone. Historically, the bulk of the Jewish population in America seems to have voted for liberal policies and politicians - groups which drag America down into socialism. Yet those policies will be, in the long run, detrimental to the interests of the Jewish people. Need an example? Where have pogroms and purges taken place - America, or the Soviet Union? Which one promoted socialism and leadership not by the people but by an enlightened elite? Not America. Of course, there's Hitler and the Fascists, but remember that was Quadrant IV, the right wing of socialism, as well. That's not traditional America, either.
Perhaps another example. Obama's Mideast policies typify much of what the American Left has been propounding for years, particularly since the Sixties. America has for decades either supported, or left in place, dictators in middle-eastern countries. Obama's vapid leadership has assisted in collapsing those governments on the baseless assumption that Muslims in those nations will then turn to the West as an example of Democratic government, rather than vote into power their religious Imams and Shari'a Law. These nations are rapidly moving into Islamic fundamentalism, among whom are found few friends of the Jew. American liberals likewise do not understand the effect that the demise of Israel would have on the U.S., with the rise of a unified Mideastern bloc of nations directed by fundamentalists, and not one friend of America in the region.
Conservative American values and traditional Jewish values have much in common, and conservative Americans tend to be the more ardent supporters of the right of both the Jew and of Israel to exist. To be sure, there is a vast theological chasm between Jews and Christians on the issues surrounding Jesus, and it would be disingenuous to claim there is no anti-Semitism in some Christians - or no anti-Christian sentiment among some Jews. This is not a call for an ecumenical council. Rather, it is an attempt to highlight the fact that the cultural moral values taught in each of the faiths are much the same, and thus the interests of the two faiths, from a political standpoint, may have similar interests. It is to be hoped that the Jewish community in America might become aware of this fact. That is the other possible awakening, because the nations rising as a result of America's weak liberal leadership and the resulting Arab Spring represents an immediate threat to Jewish existence and, possibly, eventually to American existence.
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