"The Republicans who spoke [at DNC] got big cheers, with no suggestion of 'what took you so long?' or 'are you really with us?'
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Jill Lawrence sees a metaphor for the Democrats' inclusion politics In the "fusion cuisine" of Harris' northern California dosas and Walz's Minnesota hot dishes:
"In politics, it was the perfect metaphor for the Democrats’ fusion ticket: Northern California + Southern Minnesota, with food preferences as diverse as America."
#Democrats #BigTent #inclusion #solidarity
/4Harris–Walz Is a Food Fusion Ticket as Diverse as America
But their hotdishes and dosas reflect the same values and warmth.
(www.thebulwark.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Christian Right leaders still regularly accuse Democrats of being godless liberals, or some similar phrase. Trump has claimed that no true Christian should be able to vote for a Democrat. But as Kristin Du Mez, who was on the ground at the Democratic National Convention, reports, Christianity and other religions are alive and well among not only the rank and file but the high profile speakers in Chicago this week."
~ Robert P. Jones
Godless Liberals? Faith at the Democratic National Convention - The Convocation Unscripted [S1E8]
In this episode, we talk about the role of religion at the Democratic National Convention, and how it contrasted with the Republican National Convention.
(convocation.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"As Jones notes, when Republican activists say the Democratic Party is devoid of Christians, what they really mean is that they are lacking white evangelical Protestant Christians (who only make up 4% of Democrats vs. 30% of Republicans)."
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"The convention’s unapologetic embrace of liberal causes, from abortion and gun control to climate change, was also a defiant insistence that their ideology is the new American majority, the new American normal—that it is those who insist on bygone gender roles and restrictive mores who are the 'weird' ones, that a diverse, multicultural array of identities can lay claim to apple pie and the American dream."
~ Molly Ball
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James Fields :verified:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy so valid. Black Christians predominantly vote democrat.
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samiamsamreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
liberals and Democrats don't push their beliefs on other people
they have beliefs, they just MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to samiamsam last edited by
@samiamsam They make room — when they're true to the core of democratic principles — for people with a wide range of beliefs, all of them respecting the central core of autonomy, freedom, the common good.
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Roger Moorereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
This is completely natural, since they clearly believe only people who accept their very specific theology are really Christian. I am constantly amazed at how many Americans talk about Christians and Catholics as separate groups, for example. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to James Fields :verified: last edited by
@jfslicer Yes, and this is part of why I react very strongly when a wing of the political left think it has the right to mock people of faith. Because I grew up in the US South during the Civil Rights period and saw the transformative role played by Black Christians fighting for rights, and then spent 15 years teaching in HBCUs, I know the importance of that faith-based witness to American democracy. And I think it's so arrogant and blind for progressives to dismiss it. Ungrateful, too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Roger Moore last edited by
@VATVSLPR Yes, I agree.