@Mangoes
“Tikkun olam is a non orthodox concept. There is no such concept in the Torah. Well, at least not how you mean it”
Sorry, Chesed is a Torah concept, you don’t like the appellation I attached.
The Republican party currently benefits the extremely rich and hurts the rest.
Stripping the guts out of the Affordable Care Act is not Chesed.
Threatening to Cut Social Security and Medicare is not Chesed
Separating children from parents and incarcerating them in camps is not chesed (ask any shoah survivor).
Doing away with or loosening clean water regulations so that we can’t eat domestic lettuce farmed with filthy water doesn’t help the populace.
Forcing people to have back alley abortions doesn’t help anyone. Better not to abort, but if it is done it should be done ion a safe and clean medical center. As the parent of an adopted child I am not pro-abortion, but would not put my religious beliefs into secular law.
There is a big difference between enabling legislation than forcing someone to do something by law.
The fact that abortion and same sex marriage is legal doesn’t mean anyone in the CR will partake; which is why I don’t see these things as a threat.
I am more likely to suffer a gunshot than be affected by a legal abortion, so I support gun controls.
@lakewhut
The NY politicians you mentioned are an issue only for NY residents until they choose to run for a nationwide office.
We must separate local parties and their platforms from national parties and their platforms,
I live in a Town that has been run by Republicans for many decades, I was a minority elected local official. About 10 years ago a dozen members of the local Republican Party got fed up with the mean spirited way their local party was running the town and jumped ship to the Democrats. They are observant Catholics, pro-life, conservative etc. That said, in order to have a say in the way the town was run they had to join the opposition party and run for office as Dems. They don’t have to support the state or national platform. They receive no campaign financing from those entities.
The USA is not a Parliamentary system country. We don’t vote for party lists, Americans are not card carrying members of political parties, don’t day party dues and don’t read party affiliated newspapers