Reply To: If Bernie Sanders is Jewish, I'm a Christmas Tree

“the difference is that one is halachically Jewish because his mother is, and the other is not halachically presumed to be Jewish, despite the remote possibility that he technically is.”

I would not call the possibility as remote as you would. But when choosing a presidential candidate out of a sense of Jewish pride or what have you- there is no significant difference. Some people say they will vote for Sanders because he has a Jewish neshama or out of a sence of Jewish solidarity or they want to see the first Jewish president. Im saying all these notions are silly to me. Generating feelings of kinship with apikorsim simply because they are famous and esteemed by the world is nonsense.