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In reply to the discussion: Evangelicals are naked before the world [View all]paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)9. they love to tar the left with the term "identity politics"
but today's conservative ideology is nothing but identity politics. They don't actually care about values or ideologies -- those are rationalizations or excuses. What they care about is their own kind of people (white, christian, patriarchal) vs other kinds of people.
What I have learned over decades of arguing with mainstream conservatives is that you never know what rationale or value system or philosophy they are going to pull out to justify their position, but you always know whose side they're going to take when someone like them is in conflict with someone not like them.
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They are obsessed with outdoing each other with their own ostentatious fake piety.
50 Shades Of Blue
Jun 2019
#1
You can almost tell what kind of Christian someone is by the political party they identify with. -nt
CrispyQ
Jun 2019
#14
This should be on a giant billboard in every highly populated evangelical Red State community
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2019
#12
methinks they're dittoheads. they worship limbaugh and other talk radio preachers rather than
certainot
Jun 2019
#32
Yes! It way past time the dems challenged the GOP's claim to be the party of God.
CrispyQ
Jun 2019
#15
And Trump is like, "Muhaha, these rubes are but putty in my tiny little hands"!
Ligyron
Jun 2019
#23
godless hypocrites. they have no idea what they are preaching or following. None. Brainwashed cult
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2019
#21
I hate to even type the word hate. Every time I type the word word it reminds me of the gospel of J
MasonDreams
Jun 2019
#33
false god. shame on them. so, they are all talking nonsense. bye felicia.
pansypoo53219
Jun 2019
#37