Whether we should fear Trump or the GOP more is a conundrum. I fear them both, but the GOP is steadily nearing its long-term objective of turning back the clock to Beaver Cleaver's America. They are the Eddie Haskells of our time.
Whether we should fear Trump or the GOP more is a conundrum. I fear them both, but the GOP is steadily nearing its long-term objective of turning back the clock to Beaver Cleaver's America. They are the Eddie Haskells of our time.
Well, that would be ambitious of them. I hope the rest of us would draw the line well before that, though I have hoped for a lot of things in my 69 years that I haven't got.
I fear the evangelicals the most and I've had that concern for a very long time now. Maybe two decades? NPR had a story about a week ago where a minister said words to the effect, we love Trump and, if he's gone, we'll find another just like him.
I grew up in that evangelical world but I was a high school science need and left them mentally over Evolution. I left completely with the war in Vietnam in college.
Yet the people I grew up with cared about others and felt that Roe vs. Wade was correct.
What changed? Leadership that just wanted power and money. Same as GOP since Nixon.
With you there on that science class and learning how to think. They were quite threatened by a teenager whose questions they could not answer.
The evangelical world lives by rote; it is all powerful narrative and hypocrisy with deeply conflicting principles and a characteristic absence of rational reason. The over-arching patriarchal control gives rise to the comparison to other fundamentalist terrorist groups like the Taliban.
Faith, or belief in the absence of evidence, is a founding principle as is sacrificing in this life for the promise of another, unseen afterlife. The opiate of the people, for the control of the people. Mass delusional system.
I was an evangelical Christian in the 70s to early 80s, in Texas. They were all a fairly liberal group of folks back then. Fox News and politicians playing them for votes has damaged them beyond repair.
Many analyses by knowledgeable investigators connect the rise anti-abortion sentiment among white evangelicals with exploitation of endemic racism in those quarters by evangelical leaders seeking to expand their political influence.
Kelly, you may well be correct in that fear-there are some Evangelicals who are conflating that birth control is the same as abortion. Where do you think women of childbearing age will be if that fantasy comes true? Gilead?
тАЬSometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.тАЭ
The 1950's had a lot higher tax rate, plus businesses paid well enough that June could could stay home & do housework in pearls & heels. The GOP needs to take off their rose tinted glasses about that period of time.....of course, many of them were children in the 50's. Whole different perspective.
Whether we should fear Trump or the GOP more is a conundrum. I fear them both, but the GOP is steadily nearing its long-term objective of turning back the clock to Beaver Cleaver's America. They are the Eddie Haskells of our time.
I think the Republicans want to take us even further back; to the plantation and the company town.
Well, that would be ambitious of them. I hope the rest of us would draw the line well before that, though I have hoped for a lot of things in my 69 years that I haven't got.
Except, in addition to back slaves they will put the "Dems"out in the fields too.
Over my dead DEM body.
I fear the evangelicals the most and I've had that concern for a very long time now. Maybe two decades? NPR had a story about a week ago where a minister said words to the effect, we love Trump and, if he's gone, we'll find another just like him.
They need to find Jesus.
Jesus would run screaming from them if they tried to claim him
Ditto above!
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I grew up in that evangelical world but I was a high school science need and left them mentally over Evolution. I left completely with the war in Vietnam in college.
Yet the people I grew up with cared about others and felt that Roe vs. Wade was correct.
What changed? Leadership that just wanted power and money. Same as GOP since Nixon.
With you there on that science class and learning how to think. They were quite threatened by a teenager whose questions they could not answer.
The evangelical world lives by rote; it is all powerful narrative and hypocrisy with deeply conflicting principles and a characteristic absence of rational reason. The over-arching patriarchal control gives rise to the comparison to other fundamentalist terrorist groups like the Taliban.
Faith, or belief in the absence of evidence, is a founding principle as is sacrificing in this life for the promise of another, unseen afterlife. The opiate of the people, for the control of the people. Mass delusional system.
I was an evangelical Christian in the 70s to early 80s, in Texas. They were all a fairly liberal group of folks back then. Fox News and politicians playing them for votes has damaged them beyond repair.
Many analyses by knowledgeable investigators connect the rise anti-abortion sentiment among white evangelicals with exploitation of endemic racism in those quarters by evangelical leaders seeking to expand their political influence.
Fear of diversity and "the other"?
Kelly, you may well be correct in that fear-there are some Evangelicals who are conflating that birth control is the same as abortion. Where do you think women of childbearing age will be if that fantasy comes true? Gilead?
*not a cult* ЁЯШЙ
тАЬSometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.тАЭ
-- Spiro T. Agnew
Ahhh...the good old days, Eh!?
"Don't Look Up".....a not so hyperbolic, seriously unflattering mirror on our society.
The 1950's had a lot higher tax rate, plus businesses paid well enough that June could could stay home & do housework in pearls & heels. The GOP needs to take off their rose tinted glasses about that period of time.....of course, many of them were children in the 50's. Whole different perspective.