Daily conspiracy

[The Grand Nudger]

Are the churches in the USA dying? It is my understanding that a lot of youtube voted for Donald.

Yes and no.  The downward trend is national and has been set for some time overall across all denominations...but the ones who stayed open during the pandemic and made noncompliance with distancing, masks, and gathering a component of christian virtue signaling are the outlier.  Maga churches are having a great time.  Everyone else is shuttering the windows.

Once in a while, I encounter republicans who are defending whites.
There is a large number of them that say “All lives matter”.

Once in awhile they say it to you.  White grievance is the organizing principle of maga, though.  The two warring factions of the maga leadership believe it or are willing to act like they believe it for fun and profit.  The base certainly believes it..obviously the white supremacists...but also their fellow travelers.  People who may not identify themselves as white supremacists but who believe that their taxes are high because the government spends all our money buying immigrants socks and that reverse racism is the biggest social problem in america. 

I imagine that the republican citizens think that BLM wants to commit crimes (shoplifting) and they want to defund the police.

Their existence is criminal in and of itself.  Their desires must then be criminal - but it hardly matters because even if (and demonstrably when) they were not criminal per se they would still be seen as fundamentally illegitimate.  Unamerican.

Churches in the USA seem to run on “There is a problem or “We have an enemy”. They seem to be centers for political activism with satan added.

They might say something like “Obama approves of gay marriages and he is working for the devil.”

I could open a church and say “The intersection at Johnson Boulevard and Samson road is dangerous. It needs a traffic light. The major is working for the devil because he is not installing the traffic light.

You opened with this, but I wanted to hold it for the end. 

All religious beliefs are descriptions of some sort of conspiracy to make things a certain way or a stated desire to engage in such a conspiracy if things aren't already so.  Confronted with contact and development the cargo cults grafted rudimentary mimics to their native beliefs.  Confronted with a liberal social order, maga christianity has grafted the language, behaviors, and attitudes of civil rights to their preexisting belief in a world of divine, demographic, and cultural conspiracies both for and against them.

-and when they break the spell..if they break the spell..it will have been a diabolical liberal conspiracy that made them act out then in ways they regret now.  The best case scenario for and with these nuts is a negotiated settlement with reality.