I’m not satisfied with the Irish “catholics” in the Northeast.
The top most five Catholic states are: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. They all went for the baby killer.
The top most five Catholic states are: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. They all went for the baby killer.
For some reason these big city urban Irish Catholics simply cannot bring themselves to vote for a Republican. They are dyed-in-the-wool Dems from the moment they arrived in the country. Boss Tweed is the quintessential example of this--though so were white Southerners for over a hundred years.
Urban Irish Catholic Democrats are also the people who make a lot of noise about "life" while supporting the Communist, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Sinn Fein and Irish Republican Army. They're basically a Sinn Fein/IRA front.
The Know-Nothings are often invoked as the cause of this political addiction. But actually, Know-Nothing anti-Catholicism (and the old American anti-Catholicism) was not Fundamentalist Protestant at all. It was actually based on the anti-religious "enlightenment" (of which our country was largely a product, as much as that may hurt to admit). Anti-Catholics didn't oppose the Church because it was "the whore of Babylon" or "the beast" but because it was reactionary, medieval, unenlightened, and allegedly plotting to overturn the republican experiment and institute a reactionary Catholic "theocracy." This is the common thread of anti-Catholicism from the early federal period until as recently as the election of 1960. Some Protestant FReepers are still more afraid of a non-existent Catholic "theocracy" than they are the Left.
The American Republican Party (later the Native American Party and still later the American Party) was taken over and run by a secret society called the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner. This secret society could more accurately described as a Leftist anti-clerical order (perhaps with ties to radical European anti-clerical organizations) than as a work of Fundamentalist Protestants.
We know that during the '20s the Leftist, Masonic, anti-Catholic government of Mexico received actual material assistance from the allegedly Right wing, "chrstian" Ku-Klux Klan. For some reason no one ever seems to point these things out.
I know. It’s tough for those of us who live in blue states.