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It's weird but in america i think the cause is the cure. In a way. The more insane republicans/conservatives get the more democrats/liberals fight. And the more republicans/conservatives they lose. It's only a theory but it's based off the fact that america started out heavily conservative. And drifted toward liberalism over time because of conservative insanity.
Comment by eddie1975 at 24/05/2021 at 13:56 UTC
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This is certainly why Trump lost re-election.
Comment by DerangedBeaver at 24/05/2021 at 15:40 UTC
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You’re 100% right. There’s a shift occurring in America right now, and they’re definitely on the losing side. I’m religious, happily so, and grew up as such. I was raised in a Republican household. But whereas everyone at my family church liked Trumpism from the beginning, I saw it for what it was- a sham, hateful, and a complete flaunting of our faith.
I even spoke in church one Sunday (I was a Christian Ministries minor in college, I spoke several times to fill in when the main preacher was gone) about how dangerous and un-Christian Trump’s view on immigrants was- the Bible teaches us to welcome the alien and the stranger, to love our enemies as ourselves.
But all that fell on deaf ears, and as they went further right, I found I was actually on the left. It was really weird, I never changed my views, they definitely went further right after Trump won the primaries. Either they were suppressing what they always thought and he emboldened them or they fell to peer pressure from the ones who yelled really loud, idk, but that’s what happened.
Personally, I’d much rather leave my family church, vote Democrat, and actually keep the teachings of Jesus by loving my neighbor than be a hateful, ignorant Republican who shows up every Sunday to be fake for a few hours.