Why the Jews are the victims of socialism

March 10, 2019 By Jerold Levoritz

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Socialists cannot be pro-Israel because Israel is a successful example of nationalism.  The Jews require national independence in order to survive.  Therefore, according to orthodox socialists, the Jews' survival has to be sacrificed for the good of globalism.  What looks like anti-Semitism to Jews and objective Martians is merely socialist opposition to the continued functioning of all independent states, and Israel is emblematic of such units............

For socialism, this paradigm of the sacrifice of all units smaller than the State stems directly from communist ideology. Indeed, any unit smaller than the state is invalid and must be stamped out because it is a potential source of opposition to centralized power. This is true of the independently functioning human being; marriage; the nuclear family; town, county, and state authorities. Owning guns that could be used against the state cannot be allowed...........socialists are about as rigid as a piece of clay sewer pipe........Read more

 My Take - Leftists, in all their forms and manifestations, are now and have always suffered from cognitive dissonance.