12-03-2016, 07:36 PM
Brower made a good point that I've also made here, that America is unique because of its huge white Christian fundamentalist population that does not exist in other countries. Perhaps it is like the aristocratic slave state that existed in much of the same regions before the civil war.
Sometimes Christian white fundamentalists can be Democrats, like William Jennings Bryan was. If some of these people get disillusioned with their support for an immoral capitalist liar, who was touted as a populist who cares about working people, but whose policies do them grave harm, could there be an awakening of them?
Maybe if the blue message gets through to working folks, the social issues and the gun issues could be put on the back burner for a while, in both sides' minds. And the gun issue too, if cities can have strict gun control, with less or none in rural places as they prefer. It's a long shot, but perhaps it could happen-- at least among some younger white religious people.
Sometimes Christian white fundamentalists can be Democrats, like William Jennings Bryan was. If some of these people get disillusioned with their support for an immoral capitalist liar, who was touted as a populist who cares about working people, but whose policies do them grave harm, could there be an awakening of them?
Maybe if the blue message gets through to working folks, the social issues and the gun issues could be put on the back burner for a while, in both sides' minds. And the gun issue too, if cities can have strict gun control, with less or none in rural places as they prefer. It's a long shot, but perhaps it could happen-- at least among some younger white religious people.