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 …
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the size of this population in the U.S. is huge. they constitute a minority that is itself something like 25% of the entire population of the U.S. (that would be close to 80 million people) and they are laser focused on politics and have been for close to 50 years now.
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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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