The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Secular nationalism no longer even an option

Why most American Jews vote for Democrats

Ethnic nationalism, and only ethnic nationalism, can be a secular nationalism.

And exactly such nationalism drove many of the leading lights of the historic Zionist movement.

But ethnic nationalism has fallen into moral disrepute, thanks mostly to the Occidental political left, and so is not an acceptable option for today's American, non-religious Jews any more than for the Jews of Israel.

When Bibi needs support for his project of keeping the Jewish State safe he finds the nationalists who take his side are less and less secular, more and more religious, with every year that passes.

A different way of looking at the the decline of Ashkenazi Jewish nationalism and its replacement by Sephardic nationalism.

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