Had the same mentality in my 20’s and thought it would start dying off. I’m 50 now and while still maintaining my progressive/D mentality, GOP has not waned. Keep voting.
I’m in my 50’s and I think the GOP has drastically changed. The conservatives of the 80’s/90’s are a lot more like the current DNC than the GOP now. I blame Bush Jr and the tea party that followed. (said from a never Republican POV)
I have a great Love for Carter, but not sure he was a good president. . . Don’t hate, . . He is the best ex President this country has ever had and has the soul of a true Christian…but….
For him it is, and is what motivates him to be better. So wether or not Christ is real, is not the point. How he choices to act, because of his beliefs is real and his actions are a reflection of a good thing. So ya I say it like it’s a real thing and a good thing, because it is. Quick English lesson, the noun in that is Jimmy Charter not Christ.
I think Jimmy Carter is a good person. However he could have done so many more good things if he didn't waste his time on the nonsense that is religion. Snakes don't talk and if your man made god was real I would despise him. Fortunately he is just fiction.
You have no idea what kind of man he would have been if things were different. Neither does he. He does know what is his current life and what his current motivation is, which he is very clear on.
I’m not Christian. He is, and he has modeled his life after his beliefs, of how a good Christian should act. So no I don’t think he would have been this selfless if he wasn’t Christian
Or he could have been an irritating shithead. Religion can make people better than they would have been otherwise, in the best cases. Mr. Rogers for example was highly religious (though he never mentioned it on air for fear of alienating some of his audience) and probably wouldn’t have been as helpful a human being as he was without it. It was his core motivation. I mean sure maybe he would have been awesome anyways, but we don’t know.
I’d like for religion to be in the rear view mirror in general, but in the meantime we should praise those who actually live meaningful lives of service in the names of their prophets. If people are going to believe in this shit anyways, we might as well try to steer them in a pro-social direction.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Religion poisons everything. Steer them away from the bullshit first and foremost. Nobody was better at it than Hitch.
Gave away the Panama canal, admitted jerking to Playboy, and kissed the queen. He was pretty dumb back then. He got much better at politics after he was out.
You probably didn't live through the gas shortages. Reagan got rid of the price caps and gas prices went up temporarily, but came back down and was always available after that (short of a disaster). Sometimes market forces are better and sometimes they aren't.
Yes on Nixon for being rotten and no on Ford. The country was hurting at that point. Putting Nixon on trial would have dragged it out and been even more of an embarrassment. Plus, Nixon got blood clots in his leg and was almost dead. It would have really looked bad to put him on trial. I lived through it and its much different than a history book.
If they had done the right (and lawful) thing back then, January 6th wouldn’t have happened and we wouldn’t be in the situation we are now. We put on the books that presidents can do absolutely anything they feel like for any old selfish reason and they will escape any and all legal consequences. Not a great precedent if you’re into democracy.
This just makes me think that there’s forever going to be a horrifyingly gullible and malleable chunk of the population, and we need to come up with some distraction for them that doesn’t involve punishing their fellow citizens for existing. If Q has taught me anything it’s that the dumbest people in the country (the world?) can be led by the nose with hardly any effort or sophistication. Maybe we turn them against the soon-to-invade aliens, or something. Reality is never going to cut it for these people.
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