When did being a Christian equal being right wing?

[mucholderthandirt]

58. It started for real with Ronald Reagan.

The evangelicals were being courted hard, and they answered with a resounding "YES!". It's only gotten worse since then.

When I was growing up, in the 60s and beyond, many Christians were good Democrats, including my mother's family. My Grandpa was a good man, he was strong on people voting, would take people if they didn't have a way. Before an election he'd go around asking people if they were going to vote, and if not, they should. Race didn't matter, he knew Black people needed to vote, he told them so.

My Granny was the best Christian I ever knew. I never heard or or Grandpa say a bad thing about anyone. At her funeral there were a lot of old men there that no one recognized as family. One of my aunts talked to them and said they were the old hobos Granny would feed when they came to the door (there were train tracks close by the house). They saw when she died and came to pay respects.

My surviving aunt is a Trumper. It's sad. She doesn't care that he'll take away her SS, or what he's said he'll do to everyone else. I'm pretty sure Mama's brother is about the same. He's a lifelong alcoholic and apparently never had much sense.

Thanks to the Universe my siblings are Democrats, and my mother. I don't know what I'd do if they were Republicans, I guess I'd have no family.