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Dovekin
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Catholics are dyed in the wool Democrats. They were Democrats when it was the party of “Rum, Romanism and rebellion.” They were Democrats when Al Smith ran for president, and later, when JFK ran for president. They are Democrats today because the values they were taught as Catholics are the values they can express as Democrats and are not the values that can be expressed by Republicans. Can you imagine promoting solidarity with other workers in the Republican party?My personal experience is that not particularly well catechized but practicing Catholics can be and are lead astray by the collection of leftists noted by the OP; and what seems to be a significant part of the cause of such Catholics buying into what the leftists say is that they (the Catholics led astray) are dyed-in-the-wool Democrats who cannot hear what the other side is saying.
The problem is that “not particularly well catechized but practicing Catholics” think that Catholicism is only about what they want Catholicism to be about. Their Catholicism is not about loving the neighbor they can see, the gay brother and sister or the ailing mother or son, but about abstractions they cannot see. They love the unborn child They cannot see, but do not see the woman carrying the child.
Of course, this is a caricature of a far more complex picture. I post it only because it is imo more accurate than the portrayal of the Republican party as more appropriate for Catholics.