I agree with the other two. But I think it’s disingenuous to say Trump, because this behavior has existed since long before Trump was relevant in politics.
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BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Fox News. Televangelists. Trump.
Religion can be a very positive tool to bring communities together and support one another, but capitalism means exploitation, and nothing’s easier to exploit than blind faith.
dandroid@dandroid.app 10 months ago
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
True. He’s more a symptom than a cause. He certainly isn’t helping.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 10 months ago
It also existed since long before Fox News and even Televangelists
jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
While I 100% agree with you, I think you listed the symptoms rather than the root cause. Religious people have been supporting the Republican party well… religiously since as long as I can remember, well before Trump and Fox News.
I think it’s something that the Republican party has specifically built their messaging around and then those things have grown out of it as a result. Someone posted a good article the other day about how politicians supporting segregation were able to manufacture a wedge issue (abortion) in the 70s to capture the religious vote, who didn’t see it as a religious issue until they were basically told it was.
krayj@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Religion has been sucking the tit of conservative politics for a LOT longer than Fox News, Televangelist, and Trump have been around.
It goes for deeper and is way more fundamental than those things.
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I agree completely, but on the surface, those are the three biggest modern contributors.
A lot of people’s “sincerely held” beliefs are only skin-deep, so surface-level agitators and misinformation peddlers do have a lot of power in our society. If they ceased to exist, I suspect a lot of the hatred and vitriol their followers spew would cease, as well - assuming an equally-evil replacement didn’t immediately rise.
A lot of people are stuck in their echo chambers, and just getting a breath of fresh air could do them wonders.
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Trump is a symptom, not a cause.
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
He’s a bit of both, I’d say.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I wonder why would a person keep a rich persons interest over their own ? Free or affordable healthcare and college would be such a great help , and while the planet can support food and housing for all , many are deliberately kept hungry and homeless and that is rooted in corporate greed most of the times . Gulliblity at another level!
007v2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The guise that they will someday be the one with the boot, they don’t wanna miss their chance be be the very boot they lick. Propaganda is a powerful tool.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I mean I know people who think that elon is making them rich coz their tesla shares jumped, and at the same time they dont want college to be affordable because they paid for it in whole ( tho these ppl are mostly boomers and older gen)
dmonzel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s no such thing as a poor Republican voter, just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
jungekatz@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Omg 😂😂😅
infectoid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Temporarily embarrassed billionaires now.
gramathy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They get told the current hierarchy is gods will and they’re not allowed to subvert that