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TransfemmeGoreVidal
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« on: March 01, 2021, 10:52:35 AM »

On the one hand as a non-Christian religious minority you'd be inclined to think they'd be overwhelmingly Democratic. At the same time I've read (and even heard directly from Pagans I talked to) that the community has a significant problem with racism and alt-right members.

I also remember a hilarious article I read years ago about a neopagan city councilman in Queens who ran as a Republican and claimed to be pro-life (probably just to get the conservative party ballot line) but later old posts of his from a Yahoo neopagan forum emerged where it was revealed that he was so pro-choice he practically supported infanticide which he'd justified as being in line with neopagan beliefs.
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TransfemmeGoreVidal
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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2021, 07:08:10 AM »

There's indeed an unfortunate contingent of far-right pagans who see their faith as a component of racial identity and can be quite deranged and militant about it, most of us are hippies, as one would expect from a people heavily defined by our love of nature. Demographic studies have shown that most American pagans are white, middle or upper-middle class, urban or suburban, and college-educated, which all points towards a solid Democratic lean in current alignments, and most pagan faiths besides the Nazi-flavored ones encourage libertarian social attitudes. However, as plenty of pagans such as myself also skew heavily left-wing and rather outside of the American Overton window, I'm sure there are plenty of third-party voters among us, mainly Green (as I tend to vote) but perhaps especially in some of the more explicitly politicized strains such as Reclaiming you'd find support for more radical groups such as PSL and their ilk. I'd be quite interested in doing more in-depth study on this topic.

me too, let me know if you do end up exploring it further
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