By my accounting from a next door neighbor state, Wyo. is is not just conservative but hard core conservative. I could picture Pence/Cheney bringing cross-overs from the dems who are fed up with Biden. He's not the most popular president. There are days when I dream that eventually the Republicans will face the reality of the big lie or Trump will face a felony, and then where will they be, or who.Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
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Yes, President Biden has done a great job choosing diverse cabinet members, and that's very, VERY important to me.
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I'd vote for Cheney. She, at least, has morals and integrity. The rest of the "republicans" are puppets of trump. Hard to respect those types of people and those who vote for them.
The thing that trump and all his supporters don't seem to understand is that bombast and shouts of "defund the FBI" do nothing to help trump when he, and the people who assisted him with his criming, actually have to show up in a damn court room. Just as he failed completely in his efforts to overturn the election by lawsuit, so too will he fail to defend himself using the same methods. He's an old **** that can try and run out the clock until he dies and goes to hell. Some of the other people around him have a lot more life left and a lot more to lose and will turn on him in an effort to save themselves.
Has politics replaced religion in people's lives? If so, are some of us just defining others as modern heretics as a blatant show of our faith?
Serious question! I think there's something to this. How Social Justice Became a New Religion - The Atlantic
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I’d say you are defining yourself. There is a difference between decency and religion. There should be a division between church and state!! Voting for Cheney is not a basis of religion but because she exemplifies what a republican should be. The current are “maga republicans” … sheep and puppets of trump…a traitor and Hitler wannabe. Hopefully, he will be prosecuted for his list of deceptive schenanigans..
Think the above article is crazy. The right are the ones playing the religious card….all the way to the supreme court.
Haven't we had a Catholic Supreme Court for a while now? I hope inquisitions don't make a comeback...
Last edited by JaneV2.0; 8-19-22 at 2:30pm.
Yes, I do think the "religious" have found other outlets for establishing moral codes, particularly when they can be part of the tribunal of determining what's "good" and what's "evil" and then broadcast those views and find support on social media, which defers direct confrontation. On the one hand, I hate seeing woke "social justice" lumped in with the social justice of Martin Luther King Jr, Dorothy Day, Oscar Romero, and many other church-based social activitists. The vitriol and self-absorption of many of the strident liberals and conservatives defies any level of the true efficacy and personal sacrifice of the non-violent protests we are used to from people like King and Mandela.
OTOH, the churches have often failed to pay the "cost of discipleship" as Bonhoeffer called it. Martin Luther King said "Most churches are social clubs with a thin veneer of religiosity." They have served as exclusionary enclaves for people who think alike, and often look alike. Those churches actually foment just as much division as the most woke crowd.
I'm not sure if the terrible political spectacles we're seeing are an effect of church fall-out, or social media, or general tribal fear played out in tweets and memes.
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I believe the Know Nothing Party had a platform plank addressing your concern.
I think there is something to this as well. People trying to fill spiritual holes with politics. Look at the way the pro and anti Trump cults nurturing one another in a symbiosis of reciprocal hate. All the cell phone puritans hunting heretics in the name of “decency”.
As traditional religion ebbs, they paint dark visions of an imaginary theocracy. None is so blind…
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