this doesn't get talked about enough. an enormous contribution to the distortions in American politics is this voting block, which is possessed by one of the strangest fucking egregores I've ever seen.https://twitter.com/realwokieleaks/status/1060928103495712770 …
there is a spectrum within this group of intensity of their beliefs, but the degree of ideological diversity is quite low. they vote Republican with enormous majorities (about 80% of them) and they vote reliably.
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the truth is the movement is at its core a variety of intransigent, irrational, fanaticism. fortunately they seem to have avoided the trap of becoming violent as is frequently the case with other groups of politically engaged religious fanatics.
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there's very little hope for substantial political reform in America while this population continues to vote as a block.
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