People (especially those from a certain North American country) are obsessed with politics, especially partisan politics.
Everything must be explainable by reference to your political ideology or better yet, your party affiliation.
My concern for the welfare of the poor, of immigrants, of queer people, of Palestinians, of strangers within my community and outside its borders, does not derive from a political ideology or party line.
I am concerned with the welfare of these people because I am a Religious person.
Note that I don’t say, “because I am a Jewish person,” although my Judaism, from the days of Abraham abinu until our own, has had a lot to say about such concern.
Note that I don’t say, “because I believe in God,” although my belief in the divine image of humanity, the human ikon of God, is entirely aligned with such concern.
But because I am a Religious person – I am a vulnerable, imperfect man trying to grow past my failures and limitations in the process of actualizing my full human potential, under the same cosmic conditions shared by every other human being who seeks to live between birth and death, and in existential harmony with whom I seek to create a better world – I am concerned with justice and welfare and inclusion and equity and diversity.
Even my political beliefs – Zionism, Libertarian Socialism – ultimately flow from and around my core religious experience and conviction.
Don’t get it twisted.
Politics and parties may have their place, but the foundation of civilization is Religion.