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Diogenes @diogenes-original.bsky.social

My thoughts exactly. Can anybody explain it?

jan 17, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0

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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… So, there’s no succinct way to describe the correlation between Libertarianism, MAGA (they’re almost the opposite of each other), the Republican Party, etc., but I tried here. Some facts are from Wikipedia, studied opinions are my own. His help us!

jan 17, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… pay for roads, bridges, buildings, the Military, Social Security, Medicare, etc., right? So, the tax cuts in Trump’s first term, Pre Bush’s (both) & Reagan lowered taxes for corporations & the 1%, but increased taxes for the middle-class & National Deficit, each GOP President! True…

jan 17, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… attended Christian Churches… MAGA is about ‘taking us back’, & so, that group of people follow Trump. Meanwhile, the Libertarians & the rich wing of the GOP, are looking to lower taxes on themselves, which logically increases taxes on the middle-class & poor because somebody’s got to pay for…

jan 17, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… Jesus said to them, 'Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God'” (Matthew 22:21). Anyway, MAGA means to go back to the 1950’s way of life, when 90% of the US was White, when much of the Southern States still had Jim Crow laws, ~80% of the population attended…

jan 17, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Diogenes @diogenes-original.bsky.social

Does that explain Andy B?

jan 17, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…with all things made of man and man’s speech, words get twisted into meaning things that covert people want in order to attain more power and money. I believe, this is the sad case of many “followers of Jesus Christ”, who advocated for separation of gov’t and religion: Jesus said…

jan 17, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…”Separation of Church & State” in the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution: Establishment Clause" in the First Amendment, which states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion," essentially prohibiting the government from favoring one religion over another. But, with…

jan 17, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…many immigrants to the US left their countries (England, Scotland, Germany, etc.) because of religious persecution by their governments, & those countries having endured wars between religious groups associated with government figures. The Founders of the US advocated for “Separation of Church…

jan 17, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…on “Christian principles”, because they were Christians themselves. So, although it is true that many of the original founders of the US were Christians, their writings specifically advocate for writing laws that allowed our gov’t to prefer one religion over another - after all, most immigrants…

jan 17, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… was a beginning for them. There are those on the extreme right conservative spectrum that advocate to overturn the US Constitution to reflect Biblical laws to make the US a Theocracy. Many of these people even profess that the original Founders of the US “founded” the US Constitution on…

jan 17, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

They know Trump is not a person who reads the Bible or attends religious services, but Trump is totally transactional & if these people will vote for him, he promises to give them what they want. The overturning of Roe v Wade & the appointments of VERY conservative justices on the Supreme Court…

jan 17, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

So, many Christian communities became more active in politics, urged on by their politically active leaders, & did pretty well, financially. Many (just Google it) support Trump & campaign for him. Many have come to believe in Trump as a messianic figure of biblical prophecy, to these followers.

jan 17, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

… that the US Gov’t, the “Liberals” were politically attacking the foundations of Christianity by welcoming immigrants, people of color (POC), other faiths, etc., into the US population to replace the White Christians. This makes people who are not familiar with immigrants fearful of those them…

jan 17, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…The Great Replacement Theory (GRT) is directly opposite to the teachings of Jesus Christ & Christianity, the GRT is based in fear & hatred & lack of compassion for others. So, as the Republican Party courted the previously non-political Christian communities, they did so by implying that …

jan 17, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…have used ‘The Great Displacement Theory’ as a basis of attacking & prohibiting those immigrants. This theory has been around since the Middle Ages, & when the immigrants look physically different, have accents, etc., it’s easier to be prejudiced against them. Obviously, The Great Replacement …

jan 17, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…95% of them identified as “Christian”. Since then, more People of Color have migrated to the US & from the Southern US States to the Northern & Western States. Changes in immigration patterns always cause some disturbances in population’s cultures, throughout history & many who disagree have…

jan 17, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

…who largely didn’t vote at that time: mostly rural Christian voters who didn’t involve themselves in politics- they wanted separation of Church & State, mostly to keep government out of their Christian communities, schools, etc. In the 1950 US Census, 90% of Americans were “White” & 95% of them…

jan 17, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

MAGA: “Make America Great Again” is the co-opted slogan of White Christian Nationalism. After Republicans lost so many voters in the 1970’s, after Nixon, Atwater proposed that the Republicans, who largely favored a Libertarian platform at that time, went after the votes of a group of Americans who…

jan 17, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view