Jesus Would Have Voted Democrat
Remember the rich man and the eye of the needle? Blessed are the meek? The last shall be first? Jesus didn\u2019t hold much truck for wealth or power, nor was he exactly a supporter of family values. He didn\u2019t even encourage hard work (\u201cConsider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin\u201d). So you might easily conclude that like every other liberal Jesus would have voted Democrat.\n\nYet most God-fearing, church-going Americans vote Republican, the party associated with the rich and powerful. Is that because the Right fundamentally has the public good at heart? Tough love, after all, is still love, even if it means harsh treatment of the work-shy and feckless (or, as Romney knows them, the \u201947 percent\u2019).\n\nIn this debate from October 2012 Conor Gearty, James Boys, Tim Montgomerie, and Giles Fraser debated if Jesus would have been a Democrat, a Republican, or somewhere in between. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\n \n\xa0See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices