Posted on 08/09/2018 4:37:40 AM PDT by simpson96
After mentioning the Heritage Foundation in one of my columns in the Staten Island Advance, I received an invite to their annual Christmas party at the Union league Club in Manhattan.
After exchanging a few words with a reporter from Associated Press, he said. "How come a woman like you, who grew up in the barrio, ended up being a Republican?" My standard answer to that inquiry has always been, "high IQ."
However my answer, while facetious, was not entirely descriptive of my electoral registration choice. It was more my maverick Aquarian nature that compelled me to decline joining my family's traditional devotion to the Democrat Party. Yet my political junkie status began as a teenager, who along with nuns in my H.S. was super excited about JFK's candidacy.
Although I could never vote for him, I followed his campaign religiously, nearly touched his hand on a stop on 23rd street and when of age my first presidential vote went to Democrat Hubert Humphrey. I also volunteered to work for Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign. I never voted for Richard Nixon and was politically naive until Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1976.
Our local Catholic newspaper ran an article about Reagan and I was very impressed with his political views as they squared with my values. I voted for him in the primary which he lost to President Ford who then lost to Jimmy Carter. After becoming president, His influence on the Republican platform converted me into a bona fide Republican. The Democrat party I grew up with had morphed into the socialist party the nuns had warned against. I also began doing the research of the party after watching the D.W. Griffith film, Birth of a Nation.
This blatantly racist film that had been heralded in Hollywood and was
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Because the Democrats and media have convinced them that Republicans are “racist” for wanting them to succeed instead of being on welfare.
99% of the political LEFT voters are from the LEFT side of the Bell Curve. That’s why they’re called the LEFT. The other 1% of the political left are the ones who run for public office.
Altruism is a snobbish, stupid lie. And I thought Jews were smart. Won’t think that again.
I had a conversation with my cousin’s husband — who is Jewish, intelligent, and extremely successful — about this once. Unlike many leftists, he actually admitted that Nazism is a left wing ideology, but yet he’s still an avowed Democrat.
Go figure...
Identity politics
They’re afraid that their welfare checks will stop. I think it is as simple as that. Also, they buy into what their corrupt leaders tell them.
i can understand that, except for the alternative
heh, never heard that one before
there’s just no understanding some things
Why On Earth Do Minorities Still Vote Democrat?
Fear.
Fear of Faith.
It’s easier not to be wise
And measure these things by your brains
I sank into Eden with you
Alone in the church by and by
I’ll read to you here, save your eyes
You’ll need them, your boat is at sea
Your anchor is up, you’ve been swept away
And the greatest of teachers won’t hesitate
To leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate
I Alone, Live
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But African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians who get elected to Congress get closer to the front row in the Democratic Party than they would in the Republican Party.
In the GOP, they'd have to wait in line behind all those White guys. As Democrats they don't have to wait so long. Maybe they don't get leadership positions, but they get an awful lot of face time in the media.
Something similar has been true for Jews for some time. And for Irish Catholics and White Southerners before that.
A nice lady. However, not a HIGH IQ. I was in Catholic School when Kennedy ran, and I was a supporter of Nixon / Lodge. Kennedy only won b/c of dimocrat voter fraud in Chicago. Twelve years later marxist dims threw Mayor Daily out of the dimocrat national convention. What a fickle, lying bunch. marxism on parade.
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