White US Catholics move toward GOP, Hispanic Catholics toward Democrats [CC]

[Ridgerunner]

The President is supposed to function as the Chief Executive and not to favor one group of people over any other. “Working people” need not be the enemy of the “rich” and “the rich” need not be the enemy of the “poor”. Favoring one group over another leads to class warfare and racial tensions.

There has not been much difference between the way the GOP has governed and the way the Dems have governed over the past 50 years, with a few exceptions. Reagan signed the bill to cut taxes and brought the Cold War to a successful conclusion. In the first few years after the 1994 elections, the GOP passed several good pieces of legislation that Clinton criticized, then signed, then took credit for (capital gains tax cut, making Congress obey the laws they passed on everybody else but exempted themselves, etc).

What happened after 1994 was that only the most extreme leftist Democrats remained in the House. These extremists took over the committees in 2007 and did everything Obama wanted in 2009.

It may be that, in time, Hispanics will realize Obama has done NOTHING for them but encourage illegal immigration, and even that does not favor Hispanic citizens of the U.S. It’s just a “race card” tactic.

Lots of Hispanics are presently on the low end of the economic ladder, being fairly recent arrivals, many of them. But I will add that there is a great deal of entreprenurial spirit among them that I have seen. Most that I know are not “welfare bums”, though surely there are some of those. But nobody is as independent-minded as many of the Hispanics I know.

If, by manipulating Hispanic votes, the left is able to solidify itself in power, Hispanics will unwittingly become complicit in kicking down the very ladder they wish to ascend.

 

[Dtmccameron]

I suppose they’ll be the next race then to be systematically exterminated as thanks for their loyalty? What with their inclination towards larger families and possible connotations of racial inferiority, I think they’re a prime target.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

I suppose they’ll be the next race then to be systematically exterminated as thanks for their loyalty? What with their inclination towards larger families and possible connotations of racial inferiority, I think they’re a prime target.

Huh?

 

[sedonaman]

… I’m a practicing hispanic Catholic, I’ve voted in seven elections (including primaries) and have voted Republican every time …

Have you ever met a registered Republican Hispanic who couldn’t read English? Just asking. Thx.

 

[rlg94086]

Must be a record. A Political thread where the race card was not played until post number 17.

I’m marking it down on my calendar!

 

[Pilgrim2001]

I think the misinformation mentioned in the first page is prevalent in all languages here in the States including and especially English. However, most languages that are locally represented in larger diversity, tends to have both the misinformation and opportunities of correct information. Earlier someone mentioned a Spanish-speaking Bishop who gave the facts as it is instead of the bias in the media is a blessing. This is really the case with other minority groups as well. However, if one looks at immigrant communities, lower class communities, and minority communities from the insides, it is very easy to see how misinformation can happen and how it is difficult for those without access to other sources beside local bias media to even know they are being misinformed.

I hope more local Catholic pastors and bishops give their communities the correct and orthodox perspective on issues. Beside the advent of mass media, larger widespread information was always through local sources and the clergy were generally good sources of information. In this modern society, where the bias medias are terribly loud and prevalent, our trusted teachers, priest and particularly bishops, need to be able to get the messages across much clearly and distinctly. And of course, Catholics in generally need to be humble enough to give our teachers our ears. Christ tells us that let know who have ears hear. But if we ourselves through our ears to the wind of modern secularism, we are wasting our ears.

 

[Arandur]

I think there are several things going on with that statistic that will only change with time.

1. Most immigrants are not well acquainted with the political history of the country, so their views are colored by the loudest, most prevalent voices (the misinforming media that plays on stereotypes and race, preys upon the lower classes, assaults the employer-class, and acts as the Democrat’s loudspeaker). They don’t have the benefit of history showing what the parties really mean, what their code-words mean, when they’re lying or when to take things with a big grain of salt. In short, their views are less tempered by history and much more by pandering.
2. Most immigrants are in the lower socio-economic classes. These trend Democrat in the cities for some additional reasons. Media strangleholds are one. Pandering is another. And of course what other posters have mentioned–it is no wonder many tend to support the politicians that will rob from other people and give to you. That’s the mob rule the Founders realized would be a problem when they made federal voting rights applicable only to property owners. That’s why they wanted a Republican government, realizing a Democracy was deadly. It is something we have lost control over in this country by swinging too far in favor of democracy over republican representation, to our great detriment.

I think there are also education issues, and the great confusion other Catholics have caused by not knowing their faith or caring more about themselves or worldly interests than about careful moral judgment and pursuit of truth.

 

[Janet_S]

Not when the Republicans are promoting certain racist Tea Party ideas and trying to segregate even legal Hispanics… The Republicans right now are their own worst enemy. They need some real leadership to bring back the Grand Old Party as one of Fiscal conservatism, they need to let go of the anger.

There’s plenty of “anger” and “hate” on the liberal side too. They’re just angry and hateful about different things.

 

[sedonaman]

Not when the Republicans are promoting certain racist Tea Party ideas and trying to segregate even legal Hispanics…

What racist ideas? Have you ever been to a Tea Party meeting? How are they trying to segregate legal Hispanics?

This is the charge liberals make when someone disagrees with them, never mind their cockamamie ideas have failed every time. How self-righteous can you get?

 

[Garland]

Racist teaparty ? boy you need to quit watching NBC , ABC, and CBS and go to a teaparty meeting. The party of deathocrats support the eradication of the poor with there abortion plank in the party platform. obama, clinton and all the leaders of the ocrats loved margret sanger, as their hero. you should google her name and see what she thought was “a blight” on human kind. They don`t build the death clinics in their upsale neighborhoods. African americans make up 13% of the pop. Half the littleones butchered daily in this “land of liberty” are black. 4,000 a day and 1885 of those are beautiful little black babies that will never know a mothers love or a fathers kiss, thanks to the liberal deathocrats. If the black folks would see what is going on here, they too would be teaparty people. For a CATHOLIC to vote for any pro-death candidate is a disgrace and a slap in the face of JESUS. Garland

 

[sedonaman]

… The party of deathocrats …

What is the Democratic Party? A party in which ideology isn’t rejected when it departs from truth but one in which truth is rejected when it departs from their ideology. Part of that ideology is the myth that they are Robin Hoods taking from the rich and giving to the poor, and it must make them feel good. So why are so many rich politicians in the Democratic Party … so they can get laws passed that allow the government to steal from them? I don’t think so.

So what is it about some Democrats that they believe their own rhetoric? I am convinced it is their fascination and obsession with death and communism that are the prime movers of their dementia.