(March 27, 2018 at 12:14 pm)Cathooloo Wrote:(March 27, 2018 at 11:31 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A lot of social justice type groups are like that. They go out and protest, and write books, and tell those who disagree with them that they're wrong and bad, etc. I used to be Facebook friends with a liberal atheist woman who was always posting preachy shit on her Facebook and condemning those who she didn't feel were doing things right or whatever. It doesn't have to be a religious group.
Of course, people like that exists across the spectrum. Judgmental people are judgmental. I just find it odd that a group such as Trump-supporting evangelicals would shackle themselves to such a person, particularly as it related to the primaries. The man is a scumbag. Why him? Why not Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, or any of the other guys who's values at least align closer to their own? I can understand the general election, with the choice being seeing Hillary elected, or Trump, to them I imagine that staying away from the polls was only a slightly less bad option than voting for Hillary, but the GOP primaries have me baffled.
You and I both, CD. I don't get it. I don't get how he ever got as far as he did in the first place, much less won the primaries.
The one theory I've heard is that a lot of people (those who voted for him in the primaries) were just over the "PC culture", having words like bigot and racist tossed around, being demonized for being more conservative, etc etc. It made an atmosphere of "us verses them". A lot of people felt alienated and just sick of it. And to them, Trump kind of represented the opposite. It was different and new. The "other side" hated him the most, so perhaps conservatives saw it as the biggest eff you to their opposition and kind of a way to get back at them.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh