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And the Republican Party and the Southern Baptist Convention are one in the same. A vote for a Republican is a vote for church rule.
While the Southern Baptists tend to be reliably republican, they do not represent a majority of the base by any means! I can tell you that there are a lot of Republicans that are not religious in the least!
The political scene in the US is highly polarized, with left and right moving farther apart ideologically. On so many issues, it seems the left and right are diametrically opposed-abortion, racial/identity politics, health care, gun control, wages/economy/taxes, religious freedom, immigration...you name it. Whichever side you are on, how do you feel about the other side? Do you see them as fellow countrymen (and women) and at the end of the day we are all on the same side? Or do you feel you have no common ground with them, that they are just as much the enemy as foreign invaders? Or somewhere in between?
(anonymous poll to come)
Is short-sighted and/or self-serving sheeples an option?
By continuing to stand with the GOP and Trump the opposition is enabling the following, to name just a few:
- polluting the environment
- rolling back women's/LGBTQ/minority/employee rights
- promoting big corporate over employee/consumer interests
- voter suppression
- sexual assault
- ruining your healthcare coverage
- etc.
We no longer have a democracy anymore once the GOP takes over all three branches of the gov't. Everyone who thinks that's ok should be very concerned because it WILL impact you when you lose your social security, healthcare, job and rights as a citizen. It's NEVER ok to have one party control all three branches of the gov't.
I view principled conservatives as countrymen who are the "loyal opposition."
I view Trumpism and its followers as countrymen who have fallen ill to a poisonous brand of fascism. I hope they get better soon, see the error of their ways, and return to being respectable conservatives once again. Trumpism is a stain on this country.
Enemies. I think a split of this country between the blue states and the Confederate states is all but inevitable now. The purple states will decide whether to join the modern world blue states or the new CSA.
I'd be for a peaceful divorce as long as there was a grace period for people to move to the country that best suits their ideology.
Though, the Christian Right is aging and is in decline and if we can just make it another 20 years I think we can start to heal a lot of our divisions.
While the Southern Baptists tend to be reliably republican, they do not represent a majority of the base by any means! I can tell you that there are a lot of Republicans that are not religious in the least!
And there are plenty of people who vote Republican and who are Christian to the core yet have extremely different views than Southern Baptists. I'd guess that Episcopalians, Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians (at least the mainline versions of all of those) are generally pretty open to being pro-choice, same-gender marriage, #MeToo, etc. If they aren't pro-choice/etc., then they share the pews with a lot of people who are, so they probably don't push strongly against those things.
The extreme Left IS the Democrat Party. Divisive, identity politics, anti capitalist, and anti men.
Totally wrong again, as usual, with your posts. You've been successfully brainwashed by some right wing talking head you saw on FOX. Let's see... the "extreme left" Democratic Party's leader, Nancy Pelosi, supports countless wars and foreign entanglement, astronomical defense spending, and draconian mass surveillance. She supports free trade deals like NAFTA, TPP, Fast Track, etc. She supports big pharma, health care industry profiteering, and remains in strict opposition to single-payer universal healthcare. She supports financial industry looting, TARP, and more economic disparity.
Don't believe me? Get it straight from the donkey's mouth.
My take....the liberal/progressive/socialist/anarchic are attempting a coup. You can see the attempt every day in their rage with their screaming violence toward the rest of American that doesn't agree with them or their tactics.
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