Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
These people have a person in a position of trust and authority telling them a few times a week that the Democrats are going to force you to have a trans litter box in your living room. They are completely divorced from reality.
What about jewish contributors? Sheldon adelson was one of the main donors.
I wonder what made them like him more. Maybe they think he can end the world?
All the white evangelicals I have known have been the worst people I have ever met. I’ve never met any of their nasty fundamentalist jewish or muslim counterparts in countries they control, but I bet it’s an abrahamic thing.
yhwh just makes everything worse the closer you get to him. The only good followers I’ve ever known ignore like 75% of their religion’s commands.
Kinda an awful graph
Jesus, some demographics are dumb.
I see what you did there…
If only Evangelicals were really Christians.
The god of the Bible is vengeful and narcissistic. An authoritarian asshole, much like Trump.
I hear there’s a sequel to the Old Testament.
In which not one jot or tittle of the [old testament] is invalid before the Earth is destroyed.
In other words, everything horrible in Yahweism 1.0 carries on into 2.0 and 2.5 (though 3.0 disavows 2.0). Or you can ignore the plain language there, but then there’s no reason for anyone to listen to (or not interpret away) any fraction in particular at all if the answer is just “the bits I find convenient are correct”.
Cults work like that.
Wow they managed to stick their heads even deeper in the sand. Impressive.
You say the people in the cult became even more cult-y? wow, go figure.
I s’pose this is also a great way of showing all future democratic candidates, there is literally no point in trying to appeal to these hateful ignorant pricks. Stop trying to go right to appease these nutjobs, you’ll never be right enough for them. Go left instead, and find the majority of the American people waiting for you.
The country is still underestimating the damage fundamentalist White Supremacist christian extremism can and will do.
The terrorism will be ongoing for years, even decades.
What makes evangelicals different from other Christians? I don’t understand.
Evangelicals believe HARD in an end time prophecy and think jesus will personally hoover them up to heaven before bringing suffering to earth to punish the rest of us for our wicked ways. Evangelical think they are special. More special then everyone else. More important then anyone else. That’s why they “know” jesus will personally rapture them to heaven and they are willing to kill humanity for the privilege. They really think they are god’s favored and actively try to make certain events happen to move the prophecy along. They don’t give a fuck about the future, or climate change, or preventing WWIII because in their minds the world ending is a good thing because it means jesus will come back - they want armageddon.
I grew up in an evangelical household. I was taught all the jews have to return to Isreal where they will die, the “good” christians will get raptured, and the rest of us heathens will earn hell on earth before dying horribly. They spend a large amount of time ruminating on this future they want to bring about. All religious sects have issues, but only one has a world ending death wish and has infested the US government which happens to have the biggest military on earth. That’s a problem.
Anyone ever tell them that’s just Calvinism lol
Watch the movie Bible Camp
Jesus Camp, right?
Yes sorry
Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important “whiteness” is to the equation. Black Christians don’t do this shit.
The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.
It’s vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he’s just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.
100%. It’s unfortunate that more attention isn’t paid to the “Southern Strategy” - started by Nixon but honed and perfected by Reagan. It was basically a massive counter-revolution where whites hated that black Americans were granted civil rights, marginally improved economic standing, and more broadly there’s at least an attempt to put whites and blacks on an equal footing. This sort of white supremacy was sort of laundered through evangelical Christianity but yes, it’s whiteness first. The “Moral Majority” began as movement to fight the government from removing the tax-exempt status for private Christian schools that practiced racial segregation, for example. While white evangelical Christianity does predate the reaction to the Civil Rights movement, I think it’s fair to say that this white supremacy is the foundation for modern white evangelicalism.
Of course.
They’re in an apocalyptical death cult.
When threatened, they get more insane.
The change in men under 30 is impressive.The question is whether that’s a lasting change.
The reason that former US allies are still not going to trust the US after this vote is that after the absolute shit-show that is a Trump presidency with a GOP house and GOP senate, 50% of American men are STILL voting Republican.
And, that’s the vote. That’s not the people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the GOP this time, but stayed home rather than vote Democratic.
It’s just a matter of time before the US swings back to MAGA again. If that happens the US might once again renege on its treaties, threaten allies, start wars, and break international laws.
That group is voting on the fact that their economic horizons have become so limited (job market sucks, housing prices are way too high, etc). If Democrats can address those concerns, it could be lasting. If they don’t I imagine they could whipsaw back to Republicans.
That’s kind of the answer for everyone. We’ve just been bouncing back and forth between the two parties because neither has reversed the decline in people’s economic outlook. The system, left in place, makes life worse for almost everyone and our choices have been between “lies and then nothing happens” and “lies and accelerates the decline”. Since they both let (or encourage) the decline, whoever can more credibly lie, usually whoever isn’t in power, gets the vote.
As I said in another post: the mandate for Dems is: “Make sure the last 2 years can never happen again!” There is so much low hanging fruit to support that goal, but now we gotta watch which the Dems blow this once in a generation opportunity. (Repubs are evil, but Dems are incompetent)
