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In reply to the discussion: Does believing that abortions should be illegal disqualify a person from being a Democrat? [View all]Sympthsical
(10,525 posts)Believe me, as a gay man, I've had to tussle with them. And they haven't exactly gone away. I remember getting yelled at during President Obama's administration by people who style themselves the Truest Democrats Who Ever Lived (who are still with us today, just yelling at other people).
As far as abortion, there are a lot of Democratic Catholics in this country. In Chicago, for example, I had a very, very Catholic family. They're also all union Democrats and hate Republicans. You see that a lot in Labor, especially blue collar Labor. It's very common. The cafeteria Catholics.
Many members of Black churches also have a streak of social conservatism there. It's not difficult to find.
Pro-choice is in the party platform. Our politicians support it for the most part. How people enter the Democratic Party is a different path for each of us. I mean, one group fomented war for a decade or two as neoconservatives, brought us the Tea Party, covered up for a sexual predator, then grifted like the wind. They're welcomed with open arms because they swapped a letter around.
Who am I to judge these things?
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