text: Yes, and perhaps you could begin unlearning. Who appointed you the defender of all things clerical, conservative, et al.? Dante put popes in Hell.  Langland in Piers Plowman decried oppression of the poor. There's a strong Catholic tradition which corresponds to many of the values of the Democratic party. It's Catholics like you, and the majority of white Catholics voted for evil, was the catalyst that made me take a step I've been wanting to take for some time: converting to Judaism. Now you can have your smaller, purer church.