Not at all. I mean not regurgitating what 90% of professors tell you is correct. We aren’t talking about math here, we are talking about politically motivated opinions that professors, most of which have never left the friendly confines of school, attempt to pass of as fact.
As Christians go in the US, white, non-Hispanic Catholics, in general, are the most liberal and least religious(weird I know) so maybe you were a Conservative light. You are too far left on social issues for me to believe that you were actually a Conservative. Heck, you aren’t even Catholic. You are self-professed atheist.
I stopped being Catholic because I realized that there wasn't a magic man in the sky. I realized this after my mother got sick, and despite everyone in the parish praying for her, she died anyway. (She was a beloved art teacher in the parish.)
Now, here's the thing. Catholics of my parents' day tended to be socially conservative and economically liberal. Which means before the hippies took over the Democratic Party in 1972, they voted overwhelmingly Democratic. Today's Catholics treat the Pope like a crazy uncle at Thanksgiving. Let him rant, and get on with your life in the real world where you eat meat on Fridays and use birth control.
Like I said, if you were a Conservative, that belief was clearly hanging by a thin thread. What likely changed you was you realized that it is much easier to be a Democrat and an atheist because you don’t have to answer to anybody or any higher being or feel guilty about doing anything. Frankly, that is why most people are Democrats. It gives them the freedom to be immoral, or at least they think it does. It is like being lazy and eating all the bad stuff you want without gaining a pound or being unhealthy. Most people would sign up for that, but it isn’t reality and people who do that will ultimately pay the price.
Oh, I freely admit, I never subscribed to the racism and homophobia that the GOP uses to get people in Jesusland to vote against their own economic interests. I just realized the rest of it was all bullshit, too. I recognized that "morality" is just a bunch of prudes terrified that someone out there might be enjoying themselves.
Frankly, a God that would make someone gay and then burn him in hell for being gay isn't worth anyone's reverence. That's not a loving father, that's a fucking Batman Villian.
No, guy, what changed me, the key point, was after devoting six years to a company, not taking better paying jobs for years out of loyalty, and they totally screwed me anyway when things got tough.
You are in the minority. The vast majority of small business owners are Republican because many of them realize that they may not be in business under Democratic leadership. Why would they vote or higher corporate taxes, for example? Why would they vote to allow their employees to form a union and fleece them for more than they are worth?
Henry Ford once said, "If my employees can't afford to buy my products, I don't have a business!"
Of course, if the one-percenters weren't so fucking greedy, they'd realize that the best thing for them would be a viable working class.
But instead of blaming rich people like Trump who moved your job to China, you blame the Chinese for taking those jobs, and no doubt, you've heard things about sideways who-has!!!
