tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post1643300219951512249..comments2024-01-02T23:22:21.430-05:00Comments on The Guild Review: Why Are There No Christian Democrats in America?Aaron Lindermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15992073027586818751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-9979560493329175762012-01-04T18:31:09.905-05:002012-01-04T18:31:09.905-05:00Marmalade,
When we speak about "Christian De...Marmalade,<br /><br />When we speak about "Christian Democrats" we are not referring to members of the Democratic Party (in the US) who are also Christians. We are referring to a group of political parties found in certain European countries (e.g., Italy and Germany) that have political parties that call themselves "Christian Democratics."Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-61767367833001310772012-01-04T18:16:02.537-05:002012-01-04T18:16:02.537-05:00Yeah, there is the problem that America mostly lac...Yeah, there is the problem that America mostly lacks traditional conservatism. Traditional Christians mistrusted laissez-faire capitalism.<br /><br />That said, I'm not sure what you are asking with your question. Like most Americans, most Democrats are Christian. Around half of Democrats go to church at least weekly. Democrats include the highest percentage of minorities who are probably the most religious demographic in the US.<br /><br />America has had a two-party system for a long time. It's very unlikely that a separate party would start simply based on a religion. The two-party system is rather open-ended to include everyone, more or less. And the two parties switch who they represent. The Republican party, for example, began as a radical left-wing movement that included abolitionists, agrarian reformers and Marxists/socialists.Marmaladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02701062765483715442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573015459789360915.post-10654048390000431582010-11-02T21:27:23.684-04:002010-11-02T21:27:23.684-04:00One possible reason is that America does not reall...One possible reason is that America does not really have a conservative tradition.<br /><br />Another possible reason has to do with European history. The Christian Democratic parties are basically a result of World War II, when conservative Catholics and Protestants, skeptical of both unlimited government and unfettered capitalism, decided to put aside their differences and joint together to support a moderate democracy rather than risk returning to the political conflicts that came to a bloody end in World War II. <br /><br />There were some parties before the war who favored some version of Christian Democratic politics, such as the Catholic Center Party in the Weimar Republic, but these groups only really took after World War II. After the war, though, these parties became more interdenominational (the German CDU includes both Rhineland Catholics and Swabian Protestants) and more explicitly democratic (French Catholics for the most part abandoned any lingering affection for the long-lost Bourbon monarchy).Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10825489013036249581noreply@blogger.com