Politics

It seems the H community doesn't vote for the new presidency.
I met a few who were into politics following the debates and voting sometimes.
Could you imagine a Hasidic president? I can. One H sent me a photo of Obama with peyos which fit him well. :-)
They only vote for local elections. Rabbinical elections???
Those I met are Republican and NY is Democrat so they give up the idea to go and vote.
I don't know if most of them follow the politics of their country. What are the topics of the Yiddish newspapers…? 'Last scandal in Willy: one little boy has his left peyos longer than the right one?'

I had stormy conversations because ideologically we were at the opposite. I gave up when it started to be insulting for me.
One of the reasons i left my country was a weariness of the French politics. I stopped watching news since a long time ago, objectivity misses it.
I don't follow the American politics too but what i heard seemed very clichés: Obama is a socialist, he hates Israel…
H babies are very focused on the Israeli politics and the relation USA has with it.
Both wings need Israel. I liked seeing Satmerers full of emotions defending Israel despite their anti-zionism.
I spent election day with a Satmerer in a bar, laughing at me because i was confused with the color blue and red.
Pink and red are the colors of socialism and communism in Europe. I was wearing red, thinking the Democrats were red too. :-)

The kibbutz is based on the Russian kolkhoz…
And to be Jewish is to be in a family with many charity organizations… It's a socialist community. In any issue, Jews come back to the family.
I actually became aware that to be Hasidic in USA is to be Hasidic in first place before being American. Unlike blacks who are American and not Afro-American. The roots have been forgotten a long time ago.

They live Hasidic, they eat Hasidic, they drink Hasidic (though)… But this night i spent with a Satmerer, i saw him defending his country and being proud of it.
I was definitively in NY, USA.