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Who is afraid to say they support American or believe in God? When has that literally ever been the case? I feel like every Trump supporter is on bath salts or something, because otherwise I don't understand what reality they're seeing that no one else does.
Conservatives sure weren't afraid to call Obama the anti-christ. They were doing so almost until the end of his second term.
Ok, so how would you go about actually proving that there are more people using that phrase now than before, and not only that, but that Trump himself is the direct cause?
You couldn't. Which makes it a misleading claim at best, if not another outright, self-congratulatory lie.
Furthermore, the phrase isn't even original to the nation's origins, and only came about during the communist scare. I'm not even sure why people think the phrase, which is entirely based in paranoia about a nonexistent threat, is something that needs to really be used more often.
Of course Trump's assertion is ridiculous and egotistical, but that is a separate issue from the OP's misleading thread title, which Oldglory succinctly summarizes.
The only issue I have with Oldglory's post is the facepalm.
Why? Because I don't believe for a second that the OP is the least bit dense. I think she realizes full well that the thread title is misleading, and just doesn't care. And I say that as non Trump supporter, who didn't vote for him and isn't a Republican.
Even if his election has in some infinitesimal sense made people feel more comfortable expressing how they feel about such matters, any extent would be neigh-on to impossible to truly, objectively quantify....but that doesn't grant the OP a pass to create a misleading thread title and not be called on the misleading nature of the title.
And we say it here, ya know? Lot of people, they don’t say it. But, you know what, they’re starting to say it more, just like we’re starting to say ‘Merry Christmas’ when that day comes around. You notice the big difference between now and two or three years ago, it was, all, it was going in the other direction rapidly, right? Now it’s [thrusting his hand vertically in the air] straight up.
The reality is that there is no big difference, not with Merry Christmas and most definitely not with "One Nation Under God" which no one says unless they are reciting the Pledge. So no, Trump gets zero of his pathetically claimed credit for behaviors which have not changed - in the of One Nation Under God - since 1954 when that phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance.
They used to be afraid to say Merry Christmas for years. I noticed that changed this past Christmas.
When, exactly, where people afraid to say it? It was on all of Obama's Christmas cards. Even I, a liberal atheist, say it, at least when people say it to me. Which has been every single year. No one was arrested for it, as far as I know. So when? And what were the consequences?
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