We do a lot of laughing at their expense.
They vote
Alan Simpson said this to Bill Maher some time ago while he was in the middle of a creative insult-fest against the ReThugs (which I heartily laughed at)…and opined that they–in fact–DO vote, in spite of the jokes.
We need to learn how to laugh AND vote…after all, we should have held the House of Representatives
The sooner they start splintering and having purity contests, the better for the rest of us.
Source of survey?
They’ve been splintering for years. You can’t drive down certain rural areas of Appalachia without seeing a different Baptist church every few miles.
It doesn’t matter though, because we have a two-party political system and only one party depends on their votes and panders to them on culture war issues. They have nowhere else to go. So they vote Republican as a knee-jerk reflex, even while they fight with each other over who is the true Christian.*
*Goes without saying, but none of these Republican voters are actually followers of Christ, or they’d vote for the party whose agenda is to help other people and not just your own group.
Similarly, 85% of white Christian nationalism adherents agreed that “the American way of life needs to be protected from foreign influence.”
Hear that, Jared?
ETA, the Pro-Putin Party doesn’t have a clue.
I wouldn’t want to start anything, but I’m certainly not going to step in between them to stop anything, either.
As well all have known for sometime when fascism comes to America it will wrapped in the flag and waving a bible.
We need more rattlesnakes.
"Christianity is unquestionably the foundation of the Republic "
Adolf Hitler
1936
If only those people used freshly captured snakes vs the ones accustomed to people those folks would have ceased to exist a long time ago.
Even worse - Mormons!
Christian nationalism = Jesus is a fascist
I guess it’s a fair statement, then, to say that more than half of Republicans are cultists and really don’t care about the last 250+ years of US history.
Good to know.
Of course, that probably only represents about 30% of Americans - the same number that are, big surprise, cultists.
“the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John Adams in 1797
I know which I prefer.
Be careful of indicting the original Republican Party, which had some great ideas. The Republicans were competition for the Know-Nothings in the mid-1850s.
Abraham Lincoln concluded, “I’m not a Know-Nothing. . . . As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, foreigners, and catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty–to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.”
There have surely been Christian nationalists since the time of our nation’s founding. This just seems like status quo for the US rather than anything new.
ETA: Shock survey confirms nation the same as it ever was.
Dang. There’s precedent for Republican presidential Russiphilia!
“Catholics are in charge now, so the first law we’re proposing is communion for everyone,” then step back and watch the verbal bloodbath”
I am a product of a Holy Cross feeder lot and that thought scared the shit out of me. Me being a backsliding son of a Catholic religious fetishist and a general enemy of all things Notre Dame.
I ain’t no math genius but lemme see.
331 million Americans. 36 Million registered Republicans, 1/2 of which are Christo-Facists. Sooooo . . . .
18 M divided by 331 M, carry the one {scratches head - stares off into space}
5% of Americans Support Christian Nationalism
Much more honest headline doncha think? But isn’t clickbait
