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[SanAndreasX]

sc94597 said:

SanAndreasX said:

Let's hope that's all he is. The problem is, the Southern Baptist Church and other evangelical churches have spent the past 50 years grooming generations of people in the South for someone like Trump. That kind of programming is going to be hard to overcome.

My concern is that Trump will become the American version of Ferdinand Marcos - decades of robbing the people blind and enriching his family at the public's expense, installing his family in Congress. They so thoroughly whitewashed Marcos's regime in the Phlippines that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. won the 2022 election in a landslide. 

People's bellies will wake them up. No individual in politics is safe from the beast that is American consumerism. It is the real religion of the U.S. Evangelicals, for all their loudness, are a small minority that are dwindling in numerical power. Trump didn't win because of them. 

The problem with comparing the U.S to developing countries is that people become more angry when they lose something they've been accustomed to having than when they lose some potentiality.  

The hissy-fit that was the post-Covid right-wing shift of the American population was because Walmarts are no longer 24 hours and service workers no longer want to be abused and quit. Imagine what happens when most Americans are actually skipping meals.

We'll see. I spent a lot of my formative years in the Bible Belt, thankfully my parents carried their West Coast values with them and didn't raise me in the church. You underestimate how deep the religious grooming runs in that part of the country.