Yeah I’m no christian and I realize lemmy isn’t the most religious place, but proselytizing as a disqualifier is a hilarious take.

Christian scripture references spreading the word many times and spreading the faith is a cornerstone of Christianity. It’s literally what all of the disciples did and what Jesus himself (allegedly) did, travel around converting people.

As a hot take it’s pretty good but if the other commenter is serious they show a fundamental misunderstanding of Christianity to the point of absurdity.

I was raised Baptist and this is essentially what we were taught.

The end times are now. Everything happening in the middle east is leading to the temple mount being rebuilt so Jesus can return.

He can’t run again so in theory is a lame duck now. He’ll always have his sycophants but his hands are being removed from the levers of power soon.

Religious leaders on the other hand can lead their flock as long as they can keep the flock together. There’s shrinking benefits for the Joel Osteens or Kenneth Copelands of America to continue being vocally supportive to a lame duck president when they have their own power to consolidate and maintain.

If anyone in any position of leadership is “getting freaked out” I’m sure it’s purely realpolitik; not any disillusionment or ideological awakening.

Because an election is coming up, not because they actually care.

Your words were “sounds awfully convenient to me” so clarify what you meant.

We’re also counting the French Resistance.

Dude thinks all good things are done by governments or something.

Or plastic surgery for their wives.

The Tea Party might be a bad example as they pretty successfully mainstreamed a whole bunch of crazies and got them elected. We’re still dealing with them. I wish any left movement had half the organization and backing the Tea Party did.

Shits fucked and everyone knows it. We might not agree on why, but we all agree it is.

typical .world user

It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).”

The Heritage Foundation is the at the root of a lot of the issues in the U.S. right now, it really can’t be overstated just how malicious they are. They write the policies and vet the candidates, if they’re not the actual shadowy cabal they definitely share some membership.

Yeah that was their argument.

“Oh THIS show is entertainment but this other one is news! They just look completely the same and air back to back!”

It was bullshit pedantry then and it still is.