(February 26, 2016 at 5:17 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 2:08 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Be glad she isn't for Trump.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/tr...oll-218210
Evangelican appears to mean racist, xenophobic, paronoid, and jinogoistic.
No, she rails against Trump even among her hyper-conservative friends. She has not a racist bone in her body, and has a pretty decent grasp on history... she recognizes the fascist rhetoric for what it is.
Trump's values are in no way aligned with those of evangelicals, and I think the poll reflects the power of media and a non-religious agenda of hyper-conservatives to vote for anyone who will promise to "make America great again", since the whole WASP world is vanishing with time, and they know it... or at least, they sense it.
Correlation is not causation, though. It may be that a large number of frightened, poor, working-class WASPs are willing to overlook his racist rants, or not to recognize that they are in fact racist (white privilege in action), seeing it as a modern-day priest (money-maker) of Capitalism "calling out the blame". That's part of what makes it fascist... fascism is a right-wing ideology. It may be that a large number of racists, or at least those who think this country was better when it looked like Mayberry (in their minds, anyway), are also evangelicals.
The Bible says that God appoints all leaders and that the riff-raff are not to curse them or else they will end up in the lake of fire.
Sure, based upon Trump's historical comments he's a racist. But all things considered he's probably the best racist at this time. All of our Presidents have been racists. If he's able to break the influx of illegal aliens it will give all poor people a chance to get some jobs. Of course over the next few years all kinds of jobs will disappear because of the growing use of robots. The other candidates want even more illegal aliens in the country. So Trump has to get some points for his stance on that issue.
The flip side is that he wants to screw everyone out of health care and Social Security, but so do all of the other Repubs. So that's a neutral. All of them will fuck the poor on that issue and they brag about it.
The Dems don't have the guts to improve the system so they are mostly worthless. Hillary is the worse candidate of all because she thinks that she's entitled to be President. Bill was a turd and caused a lot of the current problems we have now. Kick their butts to the curb.
