General Discussion

Why are we OK with a guy who had an SS tattoo and a person who made apologies for rape?

I am a lifelong Democrat. I started volunteering on campaigns at 13, collecting signatures to get Bill Bradley on the ballot in New York when he ran for president. (Go Knicks.) I have worked on campaigns as both a volunteer and a paid staff member in six states at all levels of the ballot, from city council races to presidential elections. I've slept in strangers' basements. I've gotten on a plane to a different state to start work with 24 hours' notice. I am also Jewish. I am absolutely disgusted that the party I've been a member of my entire life is embracing a guy who literally had an SS tattoo. Something tells me that if it were a Confederate flag tattoo, he would've been ostracized. And rightly so.

I have always considered myself a progressive, but now I feel increasingly uncomfortable in progressive circles because it seems to be more and more acceptable to blame Jews, collectively for the actions of the Netanyahu government. But I'm I am still a Democrat, and I will work to fight for the party. I've been a member of my entire life. The party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Jon, Lewis, Barack Obama, and too many others to name is worth fighting for.