03-22-2023, 02:15 PM
(03-22-2023, 02:05 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: The last Centrist Democrat Hindu was not accepted with open arms.
Regardless, I just don't see a non-Christian, or at least someone who can pretend to be a Christian, getting the nod on the national stage at the presidential level any time soon. I don't even think a candidate who says "I don't really define myself by being religious" getting a shot, much less someone who specifically identifies as not Christian.
And for all the diversity and openness people want to assign to democrats, after JFK the party elected three southern white dudes in LBJ, Carter, and Clinton along with white bread candidates like McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry. So other than JFK and Obama they've been pretty status quo and not terribly diverse on the national stage. There just isn't a demand for it...yet? Props to them for throwing Hillary Clinton into the grinder, I guess.