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Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was wondering who still voted R a few days ago here on Lemmy; I surmised that it was mostly Christian fundies.

Nailed it.

They're the absolute best at denial and tolerating (celebrating?) dirtbag pederasts.

Do you see that huge drift of independents to left? That's why you won. We're the largest voting block of them all (according to Pew and everybody else)

[–] mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago

Death cult leaning into the party of death, to nobody's surprise.

Since they want martyrdom so badly, why don't we grant it to them?

[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Bunch of pathetic phonies, maximum hypocrites and deplorable.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago

Maybe those people are simply evil and revel in it as well.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Double down on terrible seems a pretty consistent MO for this crowd.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The white uneducated male still supported the GOP by and large even if they moved towards blue slightly. The only reason why majority of the men voted for the Dems is because of young men and non-white men especially the black men. It's the young, non-white, women and the educated who saved the day. Also in the senate race in swing states the majority of men still voted for Republicans https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/elections/voter-trends-national.html

Speaking as an old white man: I'm sorry. I don't like us either.

[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Good people don't ancient scripts about sky wizards to scare them into being good

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

You dropped this: need

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, look, another reason to BDS those god-bothering fanatics.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"BDS"? Sorry, am old and out of touch.

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Boycott, Divest, Sanctions, he's saying we should create a similar movement to what was used to isolate Apartheid Africa and is being used to isolate Israel

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Thank you for the explanation!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

These people have a person in a position of trust and authority telling them a few times a week that the Democrats are going to force you to have a trans litter box in your living room. They are completely divorced from reality.

They are completely divorced from reality.

I saw a sticker on an electrical junction box yesterday: "END RACISM AND HATE: stop voting for democrats". Had to rub my eyes and blink a few times.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think the particular characteristic of evangelicals is that being divorced from reality and isolated from dissenting voices is exactly what they aspire to. The more obviously wrong a position is, the more giddily you hold to it. It's all a test of faith. Reality is the devil's domain.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The reason white (and Hispanic) evangelicals are so popular with fascists is that they have been identified by analytics as one of the most gullible of populations.

[–] falynns@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Religion is a hell of a cult.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

All the white evangelicals I have known have been the worst people I have ever met. I've never met any of their nasty fundamentalist jewish or muslim counterparts in countries they control, but I bet it's an abrahamic thing.

yhwh just makes everything worse the closer you get to him. The only good followers I've ever known ignore like 75% of their religion's commands.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

but I bet it’s an abrahamic thing

I'm no fan of imaginary friends in the sky, but it's a human thing. Consider the gentle Buddhists in Sri Lanka and in Myanmar, having committed genocides against Tamils and Rohingya Muslims, respectively. And let's not forget the massacres of Indian Muslims by peaceful, vegetarian Hindu extremists.

And if you think it's only the religious who do atrocities, consider the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward.

Power is the problem, exacerbated by the human propensity to believe what they're told.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean, people kill people, that's true. One can still say nuclear weapons are a huge, unreasonable danger though. Just because people kill people in other ways, and did it before nukes, doesn't change that truth.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm curious about why "White evangelicals" and "Catholics" are the only clear religious identifiers on this. Even just within Christianity there's a lot more variation than those two.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Because they're significant voting blocks with a history of letting their religion say how to vote

[–] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

I wonder what made them like him more. Maybe they think he can end the world?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

I'd like to see the women equivalent to the listed rows containing "men" in the description

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 24 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus, some demographics are dumb.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important "whiteness" is to the equation. Black Christians don't do this shit.

The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.

It's vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he's just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.

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