my family has been Catholic forever... and not a single RAT in the bunch!!!
Posted on 01/29/2008 3:29:25 PM PST by AstralisLux
How the Democratic Party, once supported heavily by Catholics, has become increasingly secularized since the 1960s.
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The Democrats are in the process of hijacking the Republican party too, with their Manchurian Candidate, John McCain.
ping
What’s a ping?
McCain may threaten my current affiliation however if he is nominated.
It is like a "call" to another person on the forum.
Author is only partially correct...
Catholics left in droves due to the abortion issue..
Mainstay of the Democrat party after 1972 isn’t secular humanism but socialism....
I think a major reason Catholics have drifted away from the Dems is that back in the day, Catholics were mostly working-class first- second- or third-generation immigration families. A natural Dem constituency. As they move up the economic ladder, they’re more open to the free-market positions of the Republican party. In my opinion, that’s a bigger motivator for the change in alignment than social issues.
They have been touting themselves as the NEW Democrats for years now, the NEW is their socialist agenda called the Third-Way which can be found on the Democratic Leadership Council website (www.dlc.org) by doing a search.
They would love to goose-step to the forefront with Hellary but will take Obama!
NYer has the Catholic list. He “pings” members to threads that might be of interest to Catholics. I thought he might be ping the list in this one, so was giving him a heads up.
I was a democrat in the 70s and mainly because I was a “working man,” and the dems were billed as “the party of the working man.”
Somehow that all changed and the party left me. Not the other way around.
I slowly came to realize that the democrat party was no longer the party of the working man - it became the party of the man who didn’t work.
my family has been Catholic forever... and not a single RAT in the bunch!!!
using the exact same pattern, socialists have taken over the church in which my family has been active parishioners for generations.
From Dictionary.com:
so·cial·ism 1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
“Catholic Democrat” seems to be an older demographic of those who have had an FDR “New Deal” kind of family background. Please, bear in mind that I refer here to serious Catholics who take the teaching of the Church seriously, not the “cafeteria Catholics” we often see.
The Reagan Democrats coming onto the Republican Party seem rto have made the party overall more conservative and that has been pretty solid until it has finally unraveled since 2000.
I think X42 thought they said “Nude Democrats,” not “New Democrats.”
Many of the policies prolonged the depression..by discouraging earning income...With top marginal income taxes higher than 90% who was gonna try to earn big bucks.
If you had it and sat on it you were in better position because interest income even at 1-2% was better than 95% taxation.
Not so much collective ownership but discouragement of private ownership and private entrepreneurship has been incrementally taking place since the 1940’s...
Now you have a huge nanny state..growing every day.
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