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46. "are so many Americans really that stupid/naive/uninformed that they swallow his garbage?"

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 08:50 PM

Jul 28

Yes, but they are not swallowing it in a vacuum.

They have been conditioned for years to believe anything bad about Democrats, and conversely anything good about Republicans. And the GOP did not accomplish that without help from TVangelists and even pastors in churches all over the country. And, you know, that makes a difference. Beliefs about politics may or may not be held as sacred. Beliefs about religion always are sacred.

There is a former evangelical pastor named John Pavlovitz who now writes a Substack column which he calls "The Beautiful Mess." (Not that you need a title to find an author on Substack&gt His church kicked him out for being too Christian (he doesn't say it that way, but it's a fact.) He watched it happen a it happened, up close and personal. At least he wasn't caught by surprise - I'm afraid I was. Spinds as if you were also.

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