For now on I want other people and the media to refer to me as a “Devout Democrat.” I grew up in a Democratic family with devotion to all Democrat candidates and worked canvasing neighborhoods for various Democratic candidates. Everybody I knew was a Democrat with Democrat party pieties. When I turned eighteen I happily voted for Jimmy Carter. There was much that resonated with me concerning the Democratic Party.
I am still a devout Democrat and honor my political faith and love it … but they have this anti-conscience thing. I just don’t follow anything the Democratic Party teaches and am totally opposed to almost all of their hierarchical leadership. I just have a nostalgic fondness and attachment for my cultural Democratism. Regardless I still consider myself a devout Democrat – the faith of my youth. Some might be judgmental and call me a cafeteria Democrat.
Besides if Nancy Pelosi can be a “devout” Catholic, I can be a “devout” Democrat.
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I read this and immediately two thoughts came to mind:
1) Brilliant!
2) I wish I had thought of this first!!
You hit the nail on the head.
I do remember as a little girl, we had the pictures of JFK and John XXIII hanging side by side on the wall – so it’s a pretty close analogy!
That’s me! I still id myself at times to some of thethe democrat platform, despite either voting Republican or blank. But I live in a one party state of Massachusetts, and voting against your state rep is like voting against your relative. Cross the line and you will be disowned.
Voting for Carter makes me wonder, devout democrat or…
Well said.
Jimmy Carter had a nice smile. That made him a good president. I’m a democrat because Jimmy Carter smiled.
I am a Democrat simply because of the perks it gets me (insider trading tips and the like). Apart from that I am at a loss as to what the Democrat party believes in. What is truth, anyway?
Sounds like the conversation that will be going back and forth over the Turkey tomorrow at my in-laws house.
I’m “offering it up”