Never able to vote again?

[JackQ]

I’m a staunch Democrat who disagrees with almost every aspect of the Republican platform except life issues, which I understand are non-negotiable for Catholics. I also understand that, barring extreme circumstances, I’m not permitted to vote for a candidate who is not pro-life.

Unless an extremely moderate Republican comes along (which seems unlikely, the way both parties are being co-opted by their extremists), I can’t see myself ever voting Republican.

So I guess that means I will abstain from voting forever, or until the Dems nominate someone pro-life. (And I see the chances of that happening are just about nil.)

From other posts I’ve read, I suspect the overwhelming majority of posters on these boards are politically conservative, but is there anyone else out there in my boat who has basically stopped voting?

I’m in your boat, except I haven’t stopped voting. Go to the USCCB website and read Faithful Citizenship, then pray and do the best you can.

 

[Hastrman]

No, actually, since you think the Democrats are right on economics, I’m really going to have to ask you never to vote again.

Allow me to explain. I’m no fan of the inequalities of capitalism—which does not, incidentally, mean a “free market” system, but specifically a free market in which there is a minority investor class that employs the non-investing majority.

But the Democrats’ confiscatory taxation policies don’t have the slightest effect on that inequality. They simply make the unequal system less efficient. Not having heard that Keynes has been refuted, they will concede that tax cuts for the non-investors drive up consumption. So they’ll let the lower tax brackets keep some of their money, though it plainly rankles them. However, not only do tax cuts for the investor class (the “rich”) have the same effect, indeed a greater one in proportion to their greater income, but they—being the investor class—also have more money to invest, which benefits the employees, who they can either pay better, or hire more of.

By all means, figure out a way to render every person their own economic master, owner of their own capital; “employer” and “employee” is a subpar way to conduct mankind’s economic relations. But unless you do that—and being a state employee is still being an employee, that’s why Communism calls itself “the proletarian * state”—don’t screw with that system; all you’re doing is making it function less well.

Each and every other Democrat policy I can think of suffers from the same problem, being completely divorced from facts. Gun control? Always increases the violent crime rate; trust me, if there’d been any legitimate research refuting that, you would have heard about it. Abolishing the death penalty? Even making it as complicated as it already is just makes prisons far crueler places, thanks to people who would’ve been executed in any other era being in the general population.

How 'bout the Democrat foreign policy record? Since he needed German-American votes, Wilson deliberately sabotaged the Versailles Treaty (described by France’s Field Marshal Foch as “a ceasefire for 20 years”—almost exactly 20 years before the Nazis invaded Poland); Wilson’s theories about race (which also made him a segregationist) led him to create Yugoslavia, rather than letting Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks each have their own state, like a sane person. Korea, Nam, “we can live with Uncle Joe”…all of them Democrat debacles. How about the Bay of Pigs?

If you can’t vote for Republicans, then don’t vote. Really. I despise the right wing myself—just slightly less than the left wing—but, thank you, I despise their actual flaws, not the mythological version of them.*

 

[JimG]

I started out as a JFK Democrat. But the Democrats of his day had more in common with today’s GOP than with the current Democratic Party. Even after Roe v Wade, abortion was not a partisan issue. There were pro-life and pro-abortion contingents in both parties. But very soon, the Democrats took on being favorable to abortion as the ultimate litmus test. As mentioned in a previous post, pro-life Democrat Bob Casey (Sr) was not even allowed to speak at the Democratic Convention. The recently deceased Sargent Shriver was pro-life and anti-abortion, but that is no longer possible.

Kansas actually had a pro-life Democratic governor for one term–Joan Finney. She could not exist in the current Democratic Party, which is firmly pro-abortion.

 

[dusty_david]

After reading this thread there simply is no choice what party a christian should support.

 

[Reservoir_Dog]

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So I guess that means I will abstain from voting forever, or until the Dems nominate someone pro-life. (And I see the chances of that happening are just about nil.)…

Being in the GOP, I applaud your decision never to vote again. Stand fast, my friend, stand fast.

 

[gamewell45]

I’m a staunch Democrat who disagrees with almost every aspect of the Republican platform except life issues, which I understand are non-negotiable for Catholics. I also understand that, barring extreme circumstances, I’m not permitted to vote for a candidate who is not pro-life.

Unless an extremely moderate Republican comes along (which seems unlikely, the way both parties are being co-opted by their extremists), I can’t see myself ever voting Republican.

So I guess that means I will abstain from voting forever, or until the Dems nominate someone pro-life. (And I see the chances of that happening are just about nil.)

From other posts I’ve read, I suspect the overwhelming majority of posters on these boards are politically conservative, but is there anyone else out there in my boat who has basically stopped voting?

You could always write your name in for the particular office in question. That’s what I normally do. That way your still participating in the process.

 

[hxcCatholic413]

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So I guess that means I will abstain from voting forever

nothing wrong with that…the only person who is my leader is Christ and his teachings!

 

[hxcCatholic413]

**If you take no action to stop grave evil like abortion, then you are a part of the problem, not the solution!

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Regardless who you vote for whether Democrat or Republican will you stop abortion…be your own leader and lead others to Christ!

 

[RWMorris]

Almost the complete democratic platform, and most of the republican platform are at odds with the two basic human rights to life and liberty.

And I still manage to vote.

I don’t buy anyone’s excuse for not voting.