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This has been going on for decades. The Democrats are the anti-American Party. As a party they hate Christianity - the religion of the vast majority of this country - and all that it stands for. The Democrats are the part of legalized infanticide, forced societal acceptance of every perversion, the destruction of marriage, the forced indoctrination of our children.

I'm an ancestral Hamiltonian/Federalist/Whig/Republican, so it is an unpleasant task I am about to engage in.

There was no legalized abortion in America or party that advocated it until 1973. There was no "gay rights movement" until 1969 and even then it wasn't even a blip on the radar screen.

The Democrat party evolved from the anti-Federalists who opposed ratification of the Constitution and after losing that argument advocated strict constructionism. The early leaders of this movement were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

Though the original Democrat position (strict construction of the Constitution) is now considered the Republican position, they were originally "left" because they supported the French Revolution and opposed church-state combinations.

Later under Jackson the Democrat party evolved into a further kind of "liberalism," though Jacksonianism is the position of many rural conservatives who distrust "eastern bankers."

It was the Democrat party that defended slavery and the compact theory. During the Civil War the Democrat party split into Confederates, "copperheads," and "war Democrats" like Andrew Johnson (who remained a Democrat even after serving as Lincoln's vice president).

The first stirrings of "socialism" in the Democrat party came from the rural South and Midwest (the Bible Belt!) under William Jennings Bryan. To this day many rural conservatives, while rejecting Bryan's solutions, share his rogues' gallery.

The zygote of the modern Democrat party is to be found in the New Deal, wherein the heretofore conservative Hamiltonian Eastern seaboard and its cosmopolitan urban elites adopted Bryan's socialism for their own ends. However, please recall that FDR was practically a saint to American Catholics.

If the Democrat party is the anti-chr*stian party, it is also the traditional Catholic party and has been from the beginning. It also advocated blue laws and prohibition, issues on which Catholics are not very strong.

Not to defend the Democrat party, but your statement is very simplistic in the context of American history and hypocritical inasmuch as you ignore the Catholic addiction to the Democrat party.

There was no legalized abortion in America or party that advocated it until 1973.

There was a pro-abortion movement and much success before 1973.

>"In June 1967, the American Medical Association voted to change that body's long-standing opposition to abortion. With a new resolution, the AMA now condoned abortion for the life or health of the mother, for a baby's 'incapacitating' physical deformity or mental deficiency, or for cases of rape or incest.

That same year, Colorado, North Carolina, and California became the first states to adopt versions of the ALI "reform" abortion law. By 1970, though, four states - New York, Alaska, Hawaii and Washington - passed laws that basically allowed abortion on demand. Of those four, New York's was the only law without a residency requirement and the state quickly became the nation's abortion capital.

The pro-abortion onslaught was beginning to face opposition, though, as pro-life forces organized. In 1972, the New York legislature voted to repeal the state's liberal abortion law, but Governor Nelson Rockafeller vetoed the repeal. Ballot questions in Michigan and North Dakota that same year attempted to decriminalize abortion; the measures were defeated by majorities of 63 percent and 78 percent, respectively.

Just as pro-lifers were beginning to turn the tide however, the Supreme Court handed down Roe vs Wade in January 1973."

‘Not to defend the Democrat party, but your statement is very simplistic in the context of American history and hypocritical inasmuch as you ignore the Catholic addiction to the Democrat party.’

It is true that most Catholics supported the Democrat party for various reasons during the period after their immigration. However for some decades there has been a fairly significant transition to the Republican Party. During the past election only a small majority of Catholic votes supported Obama. This was largely due to the small but significant number of Black Catholics, and the much larger number of Hispasnic Catholics. White, Non-Hispanic, Catholics gave a substantial majority of their votes to McCain.