If you have ever known any “true believers” you will know why people believe this BS. They have given up any critical thinking and follow what sounds familiar to them ( the religious BS.) It truly is a lost cause trying to use reason with them.

@Redheadedgammy Well, yes. I have known scores of true believers, some upper middle class university educated engineers, who support Trump. A first cousin who swears he is governed by facts and yet he is a catholic and I have seen him cross himself and take communion at his son's wedding where everyone in the church saw me in the first row refuse the priest. I have other friends, who are evangelical xtians, with whom I no longer speak and I was best man at there wedding. It all started when they shocked me back in 1980 with their support for Reagan. I understand their failure to use critical thinking, but they believe their own use of their own version of critical thinking leads them to jesus. I agree it is a lost cause.

Unfortunately it will always be this way. Perhaps this explains why Bible Belt states are the poorest in wealth and have the highest amounts of poverty.

It does in a sense because they both spread propaganda, lies and half truths.

Really, because they seem to be all in for Trump right now...

@JeffMurray You can't reasonably believe that, unless you are a post-modernist.

@PBuck0145 That's why all the white supremacist groups back Trump and his unwillingness to condemn them? Have any evidence besides conspiracy theories from Alex Jones?

Things change. In recent history, the KKK and anti-semites are more comfortable with republicans.

The democrats used to be the racists a long time ago, but then Truman desegregated the military, and later Johnson signed the civil rights bill, which left the racists disillusioned with democrats. The process of the democrats becoming anti-racist took a while.

So, Nixon implemented the "southern strategy" to pick up all the racists that the democrats abandoned. Since then the republicans have catered to the racists and the democrats have fought racism.

There were some democrats who refused to switch parties, but kept their racist views. They were called "blue dog democrats". They have pretty much all died off by now.

@snytiger6 So about 50 years ago?? What the fuck is PBuck taking about?

Democratic congresswomen bravely fighting antisemitism.
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@PBuck0145 So women of color of minority religions running as Democrats, getting supported by the Democratic party and being elected by a democratic majority in various states is evidence of your claim how, exactly? I'm so glad you're a Canadian.

@JeffMurray I appreciate the validation!