Democrats still haven’t faced their God problem

The New York Post ^ | March 15, 2017 | Salena Zito

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PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic Party has a God problem.

And over the last couple of decades, as its base became more educated, less religious and more urban, this problem has only grown.

Some of this has to do with lower church attendance in cities versus rural areas, and the Democratic Party’s increasing reliance on urban voters. Some of it is the divisiveness of social or cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage. And the divide has seemingly sapped Democrats’ ability to communicate to religious Americans.

Especially if those people of faith are white, according to Brad Chism, a longtime and respected Democratic strategist based in Mississippi.

“And that problem extends to the national media, who by and large are mostly Democrats, meaning you have these powerful forces who do not understand more than half of the people in this country,” he said.

Chism makes a crucial point about what this means for American politics: Some of the greatest moral advancements in our country’s history have been accomplished largely through the influence of the church and churchgoing people, especially through the 20th century.

“You look at women’s suffrage, civil rights, the abolition of slavery and all of these massive other changes — religion and religious people have played a role in moving society toward a higher plane,” said Chism.

“We’ve seen that recently as well, but a lot of progressives and liberal Democrats don’t see the role of religion in society, and that is a big mistake,” he said.

And it’s a mistake people like Kevin Washo are trying to rectify, though they feel like they’re swimming against the tide. A day before the Democratic National Convention opened here last July, Washo, a Catholic and prominent national Democrat, organized a private Mass led by a Jesuit priest....

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Actually, it does. Liberal secularists have been fighting conservative Christians in the culture war for a century.
This is embodied in the quote from the 1960s I think that tyranny in the US will come carrying a Bible and waving an American flag in nationalist price and the Handmaiden book where liberals see their biggest fear, Christian theocracy, rising up. They’ve been taught that Christians are secretly wannabe-Taliban.
They use Muslims as an ally to tear down Christianity, the ability to say “see, THESE monotheists agree with our demands, so you can’t say it is hatred of religion”. And Muslims vote Democrat to get their goodies, so Democrats think they are allies.
Multiculturalism also forbids criticizing Islam’s track record of oppression of women, religious minorities, sexual minorities. And liberals are hindered by the expectation that Muslims will convert to liberalism just as many Christians did. Thus they ignore Islam’s current day theocracies from Iran to Saudi Arabia to Boko Haram as something education to progressivism will solve.
This is why liberal secularists are terrified of the boogeyman of an oppressive Christian theocracy but actively work to give in more and more to Muslims theocratic demands (footbaths in airports, letting them refuse to ring up alcohol, Muslim prayer rooms in schools and workplaces, non-reporting of Muslim rapes of non-Muslims, blaming their religious terrorism on everything but the ideology).