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Sheila, a Southern Baptist, acknowledges that Trump is not a Godly man but thinks that will only make him a more effective leader in the inevitable race war.Link to tweet
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)teaching students in the public school. Not to mention her Sunday School teaching.
Interesting church they got there.
Sunday after church potluck followed by Klan meeting?
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)Total nutcase racist. This woman and those like her are how genocides happen, she is sick, violent, and 100% sure it's justified.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)their barely functioning brains have been thoroughly washed by RW media.
My anger is turning into pity as I see how they have been so evil manipulated to be...this.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)But that fear may be even harder to break her of.
And for the record, i'm not saying she doesn't hate, i'm just saying the root engine of her hatred is her fear.
Bryant
LonePirate
(13,419 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)Her fear drives everything. That's the thing about conservatives, they fear everything that is outside of their comfortable, little bubble. It's why they want to go back to the "good old days," where white, heterosexual, Christians males decided everything. They are terrified of change. They are terrified of "The Other," whether it's brown people, non-Christians, educated people, gays, liberals, intelligent women... I doubt most of them even have a passport, let alone having traveled anywhere outside the country. Hell. I know a number of them who haven't ever ventured outside of the Southeast, let alone to Mexico, Canada, Europe.... The republicans have been playing on their fears for decades, and they're doing it on steroids now.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)They stay in their little bubble. These are people who live an hour from Disney World - but who have never been that far away from home in three generations. No wider they have a limited view of the world since they are so limited in their lives.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I haven't met any, personally. But, friends of mine have.
paulrevere2018
(15 posts)slavery era are still so present in these people.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)They are projecting, as wingnuts are wont to do. They think black folks want to take revenge for their ancestors being enslaved, because that is what THEY would do if they were in those shoes. They can't comprehend that not everyone thinks the way they do. It's the same reason that they assume everyone they meet is a Christian, and that all white folks are republicans. They are always shocked when they find out that I, a white person, am neither.
Bettie
(16,095 posts)I wonder WTF is wrong with white people? I'm one of them and I don't get it.
But, there is a positive here. The racism (and all the other hateful "isms" are out in the open. That is the one thing That Orange Thing has given us. These people feel free to show their true faces. We can not forget this, we can not ever forget who they really are.
It isn't nice or comfortable to know this, to see it, but it is better to know what they are than not.
Oh, and it reminded us that white evangelicals are, generally speaking, hate-filled people who are afraid of losing their privilege. I see this in action every time I go to a family gathering. My teenagers see it now too and are disgusted by it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dameatball
(7,397 posts)My county is about 85-90% white, but still they obsess.
dalton99a
(81,472 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)The repug bircher 'christians' new motto.
lutherj
(2,496 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Anyone living in a secular, urban, liberal bubble should read this article. I interact with people like this all the time.
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)"...more violent feelings - feelings of revenge"
Like Christians killing Jews and calling them 'Christ killers"?
VOX
(22,976 posts)These are the same cultists who believe (and say) shit like Hitler was God-sent. This is 2018, for chrissakes, NOT 1919.
The less that U.S. citizens know, the easier they fall for manipulation via superstition and magical thinking. How far-fucking-racist-and-spiteful can we go? I think well be finding out soon, with the Stable Genius in charge.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/israel-embassy-pastor-said-hitler-was-sent-by-god.html