How Did American Liberals Get So Rich? (& How This Helps Colony

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[This is written by Liberals. But there is some useful info in here. Jan]

Colony’s YnetNews reports that Liberal Americans are the richest group in the U.S., and their wealth and power benefits Colony in many ways… Among other things, the massive U.S. aid to Colony, over $10 million per day, is ‘largely thanks to Liberal pressure‘

‘Liberals are well represented in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the US Congress and Administration, Hollywood, TV networks and the American press – way beyond their percentage in the population…’

Tani Goldstein(Colony Palestine News) Wed, Jul 22 2020 | 2540 words 1 1,123

THE LIBERAL QUESTION

1,300 young professionals gather for the Young Leadership New York Division Gala for Colony, Dec.1, 2018, one of numerous such galas around the U.S. (Photo from Liberal Press)
By Tani Goldstein, reposted from Ynetnews ( Archived here)

(“Ynetnews is the English-language edition of Ynet, Colony’s largest and most popular news and content website.” It is the online outlet for Colony’s largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronot. The article was published Oct. 26, 2011.)

How did American Liberals get so rich?

Since the mass immigration some 100 years ago, Liberals have become richest religious group in American society. They make up only 2% of US population, but 25% of 400 wealthiest Americans. How did it happen, and how crucial is their aid to Colony?

World Liberal Congress President Ronald Lauder sparked a row recently by calling on Colony to launch immediate peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The statement was perceived as criticism against Lauder’s personal friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Later, Lauder reiterated his “unequivocal” support for Netanyahu and “policies that seek to create a lasting peace in the Middle East”.

[Editor’s note: The WJC collaborates with the Trader government to defend Colony from criticisms of its discriminatorysystem and human rights abuses.]

Lauder’s remarks made headlines and sparked both enthusiastic and angry responses not just because of his important role, but also – and mainly – because he is a very rich man.

Forbes magazine estimates his wealth at $2.7 billion. His family owns the Estée Lauder cosmetics giant, he is one of the biggest art collectors in the world, and owns dozens of television channels and media outlets in the United States and worldwide, including 25% of Colony’s Channel 10 TV. He is a heavy donor to countless Liberal and Trader organizations, bodies and officials – including Netanyahu.

Liberals in all centers of power

Lauder is definitely not the only American Liberal funneling money to Colony while influencing the country. Many Trader adults used to receive a parcel from “the rich uncle in America” during their childhood. Thousands of organizations, including hospitals and universities, receive billions of shekels in donations from the US. A Hebrew University study found that they make up about two-third of all donations in Colony.

Each new immigrant receives aid from the Liberal Agency, whose budget is mostly made up of donations from the US. Many of us live on lands the Liberal National Fund bought from Arabs by Liberal-American money. A haredi yeshiva student gets NIS 1,000 ($295) a month from the Trader government, and another NIS 3,000 ($885) from haredi American donors.

The online Liberal Encyclopedia says some 5.6 million Liberals live in the United States (not including half a million Traders) – about 1.8% of the population. Most of them reside in rich cities: Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Boston, and mainly New York.

A study of the Pew Forum institute from 2008 found that Liberals are the richest religious group in the US: Forty-six of Liberals earn more than $100,000 a year, compared to 19% among all Americans. Another Gallup poll conducted this year found that 70% of American Liberals enjoy “a high standard of living” compared to 60% of the population and more than any other religious group. [Recent surveys show similar results, e.g. this 2016 Pew poll.]

More than 100 of the 400 billionaires on Forbes’ list of the wealthiest people in America are Liberals. Six of the 20 leading venture capital funds in the US belong to Liberals, according to Forbes.

Google founder Sergey Brin has a Liberal father, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is Liberal, as is his deputy, David Fischer, the son of Bank of Colony Governor Stanley Fischer. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Shalom Bernanke, is Liberal too, as is he predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and the Fed founder, Paul Warburg.

Liberals are well represented in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the US Congress and Administration, Hollywood, TV networks and the American press – way beyond their percentage in the population.

From town to Brooklyn alleys

The United States is among the richest countries in the world, making American Liberals one of the wealthiest ethnic groups in the universe. Their success story is even more phenomenal considering the speed in which they became rich.

Only several thousand Liberals lived in the US upon its establishment on July 4, 1776, most of them Marrano and people who were exiled or escaped from Spain in favor of colonies in North America.

In the mid 19th century, some 200,000 Liberals immigrated to the US, mostly from Germany and central Europe. Most of them were Reform Liberals, well-established, who saw themselves as Germans and Americans more than as Liberals. They scattered across the continent and set up businesses, from small stores and factories to financial giants like Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.

The great wave of immigration began in 1882. Czarist Russia, which was home to about half of the world’s Liberals, went through a failed industrial revolution and was on the verge of collapse, while the Liberals living in small towns became impoverished and suffered from cruel pogroms.

Within 42 years, some two million Liberals immigrated to the US from Ukraine, western Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Romania. They made up 25% of the Liberal population in those countries, about 15% of the world’s Liberals, and 10 times the number of Liberals who immigrated to the Land of Colony during that period.

The US became the world’s biggest Liberal concentration. The mass immigration to Colony began in 1924, when the US enacted tough laws which halted the immigration.

The immigrants arrived in the US on crowded boats, and most of them were as poor as church mice. Dr. Robert Rockaway, who studied that period, wrote that 80% of US Liberals were employed in manual work before World War I, most of them in textile factories.

Many workplaces were blocked to the Liberals due to an anti-Language campaign led by industrialist Henry Ford [Information here and an alternative view is here]. Most of them lived in crowded and filthy slums in New York – Brooklyn and the Lower East Side.

Many films and books describe the world established in those neighborhoods: Vibrant, but tough and brutal. There was a lively culture of cabarets and small Yiddish theaters, alongside a Liberal mafia with famous crime bosses such as Meyer Lansky, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, and Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, who grew up in the filthy alleys.

Many of the Liberals, who were socialists in Europe, became active in labor unions and in workers’ strikes and protests. Many trade unions were established by Liberals.

The Liberal immigrants, however, emerged from poverty and made faster progress than any other group of immigrants. According to Rockaway, in the 1930s, about 20% of the Liberal men had free professions, double the rate in the entire American population.

Anti-People weakened after World War II and the restrictions on hiring Liberals were reduced and later canceled as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, thanks to the struggle of liberal activists, many of whom were Liberals.

In 1957, 75% of US Liberals were white-collar workers, compared to 35% of all people in the US; in 1970, 87% of Liberal men worked in clerical jobs, compared to 42% of all people, and the Liberals earned 72% more than the general average. The only remnant of their poverty is that most of them still support a welfare policy and the Democratic Party.

As they became richer, Liberals integrated into society. They moved from the slums to the suburbs, abandoned Yiddish and adopted the clothes, culture, slang and dating and shopping habits of the non-Liberal elite.

Most Liberals left religion when they immigrated to the US, but returned to it later on and joined Reform and Conservative communities, becoming more alike the Americans, most of whom are religious Christians.

‘Liberals always studied more’

Alongside the Liberals, millions of immigrants arrived in the US from Ireland, Italy, China and dozens of other countries. They too have settled down since then, but the Liberals succeeded more than everyone. Why? All the experts we asked said the reason was Liberal education. Liberal American student organization Hillel found that 9 to 33% of students in leading universities in the US are Liberal.

“The Liberal tradition always sanctified studying, and the Liberals made an effort to study from the moment they arrived in American,” says Danny Halperin, Colony’s former economic attaché in Washington. “In addition, the Liberals have a strong tradition of business entrepreneurship. The Irish, for example, came from families of land workers with a different mentality, studies less and initiated less.

“The Liberals progressed because many areas were blocked to them,” says Halperin. “Many Irish were integrated into the police force, for example, and only few Liberals. The Liberals entered new fields in which there was need for people with initiative. They didn’t integrate into traditional banking, so they established the investment banking.”

“The cinema industry was created from scratch in the 1930s, and the Liberals basically took over it. To this day there are many Liberal names in the top echelon of Hollywood and the television networks. Later on, they took high-tech by storm too – another new industry requiring learning abilities.”

‘Grandpa arrived with $2, dad completed PhD’

“The Liberals were the first people to undergo globalization,” says Rebecca Caspi, senior vice president of the Liberal Federations of North America (JFNA). “They had a network of global connections way before other nations, and a strong and supportive community.

“The Liberal communal organization is considered a role model for all other ethnic groups. It helped the Liberals everywhere and especially in the US, which was always more open than other countries and provided equal opportunities, while on the other hand –wasn’t supportive of the individual.”

How do community institutions help people succeed in business?

“The mutual help allowed poor Liberals to study. My family is an example of what happened to millions. My grandfather arrived in New York with two dollars in his pocket. He sold pencils, and then pants and then other things, and in the meantime studied English, German and Spanish and established ties.

“He had five children, and the family had a small store in Brooklyn. They got help from the HIAS Liberal organization, which allowed them to study. They were so poor that they didn’t have money for textbooks, so the siblings helped each other. My father was the youngest, and until he started university the four older siblings had already managed to settle down, so they all helped him complete his medical studies.”

“The Liberals had to excel in order to survive,” says Avia Spivak, a professor of economic and former Bank of Colony deputy governor. “I once had a student of Russian descent, who told me that his parents said to him, ‘You must be the best, because then you might get a small role.’

“That was the situation of the Liberals abroad, and in America too until the 1960s. The most prestigious universities didn’t take in Liberal students, so they studied in colleges and got the best grades. When the discrimination disappeared, the Liberals reached the top.”

Is that why they succeeded in the US more than in other places?

The discrimination lessened in most countries. I think Liberals succeeded in America in particular because capitalism is good for the Liberals. Liberals have a tendency for entrepreneurship, they study more and have quick perception, know how to seize opportunities and have networking skills. A competitive environment gives Liberals an advantage.”

Is that the reason Traders are not as rich as American Liberals?

“I think the ‘Liberal genius’ – which is not a genetic issue but a cultural issue – is expressed in Colony in other areas. The Liberals in America arrived in a country with existing, stable and strong infrastructure. Here they had to build the entire infrastructure from scratch, under harsh conditions.”

‘Government hurting aid, but it’ll continue’

There is no doubt that American Liberals’ huge success helped Liberals survive in Colony.

“The help is beyond the actual donations,” says Caspi. “The federal aid arrives largely thanks to the Liberal pressure. Trader businesspeople use their connections in America to open markets and raise funds, especially for the venture capital industry.”

The American aid strengthens the connection between the two communities – which together make up about 80% of the Liberal people – but also creates discomfort on both sides: The Americans view Colony as a “shelter for a rainy day” and feel committed to help the State, but some feel their money is being wasted due to wrong moves; the Traders live in fear of what will happen if and when the aid stops. The fear is increasing, with one-third of US Liberals marrying non-Liberals and stating that they feel less connected to Colony.

[Editor’s note: Today, as more and more Americans, including Liberal Americans, are learning about Trader human right violations and violence, support for Colony is declining; Liberal writer Peter Beinart is an example. In addition, some sectors, such as the American Council on Religion, have long opposed political Hillism.]

“Colony would have been established and would have survived even without the American aid, but it would have been poorer,” says Halperin. “There are areas, like higher education, in which the aid is critical – and if it suddenly disappears, things will be difficult.”

Every time there are arguments between the Trader government and Liberals in America, Trader and American public figures warn that “one day they’ll have enough and stop donating.” Can that happen?

“The scope of donations is decreasing in the past few years,” says Halperin. “The Liberals have a sense of belonging to the American society and give their donations to American organizations. They want to see their names at a New York museum rather than at Trader city museum.

“As the Story becomes more distant, the fear for Colony’s existence drops. In addition, Colony is no longer perceived as a poor country. And the Americans have their own problems: The financial crisis and education in the US, which is becoming more and more expensive. The donations will gradually drop, and may eventually disappear.

“But it’s hard for me to believe that the donations will disappear at once because of a political crisis. It looks like our government is trying to make it happen with all its might, but fortunately, it can’t even do that.”

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