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In 2016 Ha'aretz ran the following: haaretz.com/us-news/202… Yet somehow that antisemitic, racist right is completely oblivious to the fact that the biggest donors , lawyers, advisors and supporters of Trump and the GOP are Jews. Such as Rupert Murdoch observer.com/2016/03/al…, Steve Wynn, the Addelsons, the Mercers, Weiselberger, Jared …
In 2016 Ha'aretz ran the following: https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2020-07-09/ty-article/trump-campaign-jewish-billionaires-are-using-their-money-to-try-to-rig-election/0000017f-e629-dc7e-adff-f6adbcb50000
Yet somehow that antisemitic, racist right is completely oblivious to the fact that the biggest donors , lawyers, advisors and supporters of Trump and the GOP are Jews. Such as Rupert Murdoch https://observer.com/2016/03/algemeiner-celebrates-power-jews-at-packed-manhattan-gala/, Steve Wynn, the Addelsons, the Mercers, Weiselberger, Jared Kushner his son in law, Steven Miller, (a racist, white nationalist, xenophobic Jew) and there is this https://www.jta.org/2020/08/28/opinion/many-orthodox-jews-support-president-trump-im-one-of-them-heres-why
"A Nishma poll taken in January 2020 showed some 56% of the ultra-Orthodox and 29% of the Modern Orthodox voted for Trump in 2016, and his approval rating had risen to 68% among the ultra-Orthodox and 36% amongst the modern Orthodox earlier this year."
Yes, I am amazed how the alignment of religious hierarchy with autocratic power generally overwhelms their moderate religious teachings. It turns out that evangelist hierarchy is equivalent to orthodox jewish hierarchy to taliban hierarchy etc.
Hi Thom L: I am not amazed at all about how religions meld into each other, the only diffrence being inane differences in ritual, the name they call god, and son on.
Religions, including polytheistic ones like Hindu, are patriarchal and that necessiates the female being subordinate, even submissive.
One need that religion fills is psychosexual, Humans, despite their evolved brains, are still animals, driven by hormones and (arguementally) instincts. Like the instint to breed, to pass on our genes.
And the act of reproduction requires, in the more brutish of mammals, the need to dominate, the female,the female seeks the most powerful male in her social strata with which to mate, thus providing safety and security for her and her offspring.
You can see that in a "biker" trailer park, the best looking, best built, women is paired with the foulest, biggest, thug. In fact you can determine the rank of say, a drug dealing biker gang, by the attractiveness of their woman. Among the upper class, unless it is a "court marriage" like the medieval marriages, the woman plays the role of arm candy, like Melania Trump, an underwear "model" cum 1st Lady.
Men have no problem marrying "down", women on the other hand, well that is a different story.
When race was an indicator of social status, the only mixed "marriages" were between white men and women of color, usually very light, almost white women.
As race became subordinate to economic wealth and status, and men of color with wealth, achieved a greater social status, that color line was broken.
I classify the 2% as old money and new money, what qualifies as old money is quite different than in the gilded age, when old money did not necessarily have money, but had pedigrees stretching back to before the revolution.
The old money generally marries within their social circle, for instance J F K and Jacqueline Bouvier. While that is where the old money marries, the old money males are expected to have attractive mistresses and affairs (JFK and Marilyn Monroe for instance). You will be hard pressed to find an "old money" female, marrying a lower class commoner, or even a hard working, but non descript well to do middle class.
In our celebrity culture, you might even include celebrities in the old money classification, for they too marry within their social class.
When I was a freshly minted 2d Lt, my boss was a major an American descendant of Slaves (ADOS), he was horrified that a female Major (a nurse) was dating and married a Sergeant.
She was guilty of a social faux pas, she married "down" out of her class. He was oblivious to
the fact that it was only a couple of decades bast Loving v Virginia, and that even then (1980's) interracial marriages where stigmatized (he was not in one)..
The nurse had busted the patriarchal paradigm, she married "below" her station in life. Unfortunately the patriarchal paradigm still has a headlock on society, and religion is just one way in which it is manifested. The law is another, employment is another.
Thanks @Farrar. History defines us but as an optimist I hope it does not trap us.
There is one thing in common with the Abrahamic religions and it is that they are patriarchal.
The Torah is nothing but patriarchy enshrined. The Dominionist goal of a theocratic America is to use the Mosaic laws (i.e. Deuteronomy and Levitucus) as the bedrock of our system, which calls for, among other things, the stoning of adulterers, gays, less than faithful Christians and even juvenile delinquents (rebellious children). Stones, because they are libertarian and stones are free.
Islam is an Arab adopted form of "the book" as the Quran refers to it Christianity was a milder form, but humanized with the enlightenment. The Inquisition claimed it's last victim in 1823.
We are now in retrograde, the reactionaries in Christianity have rebounded, and have a new face, a political face, their avatar is Donald J Trump (for the time being), their organization is the Republican Party.
The difference between them and the Taliban or the Wahhabi's of Saudi Arabia, is that they don't make their women wear bee keeper suits, , but the Saudis are more humane, they behead and not stone, and then there is the mullahcracy of Iran which is only slightly more modern than the Saudi's or Taliban, yet they prefer slow strangulation with cranes as their preferred form of execution.