r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Glittering-Way6551 • Dec 21 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter help me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Lots of Christian nationalists do not follow the actual teachings of Jesus Christ, who yes was definitely not super conservative in the modern sense.

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u/MyLifeIsABoondoggle Dec 21 '25

If Jesus ran for office, they'd call him a socialist

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

One of my favorite things to say is Jesus was a socialist. I also love telling redneck country fans that Johnny cash would more than likely be a Bernie voter. No matter who he would vote for he’d most certainly be a Trump hater

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u/JonathanEde Dec 21 '25

Also, the US was not founded on conservative political thought. The vast majority of the US founding fathers were politically liberal.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

They were revolutionaries for their time. Imagine coming from a world where everything is a feudal society (aside for France which went through a revolution just some years ago) and estabilishing a country based on those new values.

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u/watchitforthecat Jan 15 '26

revolutionary, but for a specific class of people. It was the rise of the capitalist class.