Why do some Catholics lean politically conservative?

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I hope he’s continues to do well and wish many happy memories for both of you. 👍
 
meltzerboy2 said:
And at the time, people didn’t, on average, live on a few decades after the retirement age of 65, as they often do today. The average lifespan was about 65 to 70 or so, not 80 to 90.
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True. “About” is a key term. No guarantees a man even made it to 65 back then.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Conservatives are also usually very interested in devising ways that such people can hold onto wealth.
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Think about what you just wrote. Hold onto wealth? Since when does keeping what you have earned become a bad thing? Whatever someone honestly earns is their property, nobody has a right to try to take it from them by force.
 
Your story represents precisely why it is prematurely judgmental and dangerously simplistic to look at a poor person and respond with . . .

"Maybe he shouldn’t have . . . "
"Why doesn’t she just . . . "

Conservatives can tout private charities as the Solution all they want. But no charity worth my donations snubs the poor in this manner.

Poverty comes from a complex array of causes and contexts, not just a bunch of people choosing to become poor. Heaven forbid we admit that maybe stingy corporations and “business-friendly” government policies played a hand in it.
 
And for all of the people who have it worse off than me, I am very open with our finances to any who ask.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
Hello, how are you? I just want to ask why some Catholics lean conservative or libertarian on many political or policy issues? For example, when I look at the issues outside of certain social issues, it seems like the Catholic position would be very compatible with the left-leaning or progressive view. And I know this sounds childish but the conservative or “right-leaning” agenda seems to be presented in a way that is well “harsh”.

PS: I don’t want this discussion to spiral out of control; meaning I want civil and calm discussion. If rules are against political postings, then, please flag this discussion so it may close.
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GOSH, sorry about that BUT Jesus Himself modeled what LIFE with HIM would be like: “TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE”

Enter by the Narrow GATE {FEW will} MANY will not looking for the less “harsh” MY WAY instead.

The harshness comes from being TRULY a follower of Jesus in ACTION, not simply words.

NO TRUE Catholic and NO TRUE Christian CAN vote for, or in ANY manner support ANY National Democratic Candidate given their Party Platform which promotes the Culture of DEATH and the gay life style. …LOOK at WHAT they legislated:

Abortion as as a mandate
Homosexual Unions we are demanded to call “marriage”
Unisex locker and bathrooms legislated

WOULD JESUS APPROVE OF ANY OF THESE????

ITS NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE; IT IS A MORAL ISSUE!!!

And for the record I WAS a registered & VOTING Democrat through Carters Administration

May Jesus Save US!
Patrick
 
RCIAGraduate said:
People seem open to pro-life, but pro-life and Republican seems like a bitter pill to swallow for some How do you respond to someone who agrees with the Republicans on one thing but see a party as the polar opposite of their other priorities (or rather simplistically anti-everything else they support)?
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There are any number of liberals & Democrats who seriously care for the poor et al, just as there are with conservatives & Republicans. The problem for the former is that the term “pro-life” is most generally associated with those who oppose abortion, which seems unfair to them because they think it should apply to them as well. This is why so many miscellaneous issues get labelled as “pro-life”: pro-abortion people want that accolade applied to them as well.

This is also likely the origin of the claim that Republicans don’t care about people after they are born; it justifies applying the pro-life label to Democrats for what they believe are their greater social concerns, although there seems to be little justification for doing so.
 
Little things… like the fact that every liberal/progressive/Democratic candidate supports things the church teaches against: abortion, same sex marriage, etc…
 
Here in the City of Pittsburgh, I rarely vote in local elections for that exact reason. We generally have a one candidate races, but all of the candidates in every office on the ballot are anti-life.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
They do define the direction of the party, however, as they are its biggest funders.
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Their funding is worthless if they don’t get all the upper-middle-class and middle-class people on board to actually vote, operate the party machinery and garner support at the grassroots and state levels, and provide viable candidates.
 
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TheLittleLady said:
Huh. You might want to tell that to the many, many very active members of https://www.democratsforlife.org/
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Many, many??? Not in Congress where it counts.
The Democratic Party is currently facing an internal debate over whether it should embrace anti-abortion lawmakers. The party currently has six men — and no women — who consistently support an anti-abortion agenda serving in the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate, a spokesperson for Democrats for Life of America told Motto. There are currently 78 women Democrats in all of Congress.
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Where I am, there are a lot more intolerant or obnoxious liberals then the same with conservatives.

It seems like today’s progressives beliefs (can’t even call most of then them liberals anymore) want to actually cause the end of the world as far as I’m concerned. I don’t really mean individuals but the party as a concept itself. I hope I don’t get a penalty for sounding too harsh.
 
Why would it matter if “some Catholics” are Conservative, Libertarian or, Progressive? Can’t we all just get along and talk about it?
 
I generally find BOTH extreme liberals and extreme conservatives “intolerant” and 'obnoxious." And I do mean individuals, harsh-sounding as that may be.
 
Although, or maybe because, I am a college instructor, I honestly think that based on the way college has been structured in the last decade or so (not only the curriculum but loads of other problems), I am tempted to amend what you say by stating that “college is not for ANYONE” anymore.
 
Tuition-free college is an absolutely horrible idea. It will lead to even more overcrowding of classes (and classrooms), and basically hurts both students who may be able to benefit from college, as well as giving false hope to those who will probably not benefit. It is equally bad for faculty, who are already teaching too many students in any given class. In former years, you had very low tuition in certain college systems, which did give poorer students the ability to succeed. But the essential difference was that these students had the potential. Today, some students still have potential and need financial help, but too many others do not have the ability to take on college courses. Do I sound conservative here? I am liberal on many social and economic issues, but not on this one, since–unlike the politicians–I know it intimately from the inside.
 
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