More Democrats Blame Jews for The Financial Meltdown?

Now this should make Jewish Americans kind of wary of wholeheartedly supporting Democrats in the future.

But what the Stanford and Columbia academics find “somewhat surprising” is the partisan breakdown among the American public: “Democrats were especially prone to blaming Jews: while 32 percent of Democrats accorded at least moderate blame, only 18.4 percent of Republicans did so (a statistically significant difference).” Why is this surprising? Because of “the presumed higher degree of racial tolerance among liberals and the fact that Jews are a central part of the Democratic Party’s electoral coalition.”

I wonder why so many Dems are blaming Jews like this? It might be from the poisoned well of victimhood that many on the left drink from. You can't blame the poor homebuyer who signed these interest only, jumbo, balloon payment loans for a McMansion they couldn't afford. Instead it is far easier to blame some shady Jewish Banking Cartel for duping these poor innocents to the tune of big profits.

It is much like the Truthers blame the Bush administration for pulling off the most complicated and difficult conspiracies of all time on 9/11 instead of simply blaming 19 terrorists and their Al-Quida masters. They just can't fathom how some basic Muslim nutjobs from the Middle East can pull off such a terrible attack on our nation.

The financial crisis has all sorts of moving parts and may have been 30-some years in the making just like the buildup to 9/11 had been festering since the 1980s. Instead of the complicated analysis that is really needed to tell the culprits from the scapegoats the Left falls back to the quickie culprits of Bush and the Jewish Bankers.