2020 Field
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acesfull86
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The word "buffoon" comes to mind...
cajunrevenge
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He isnt capable of more than a surface level understanding of an issue. Heres a direct quote from Joe Biden when he got the 1994 crime bill passed "I would love to see someone try to use this against me in a campaign"....... well here we are.
cajunrevenge
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nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Interview with Robert P. Jones, chief executive and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute. I think he is a tad optimistic, but a good read. He has a book that just came out that I think I'll get. “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ristianity-republican-party/#comments-wrapper
Q: Do you think we are at a moment when White Christians’ mind-set can change?
A: There are signs that we are at a unique moment of opportunity. This time last year, I was conducting research for the book in Richmond. I walked the length of Monument Avenue in the shadow of five massive monuments to leaders of the Confederacy, which had stood in their places for more than a century. The bronze statues at the center of four of these monuments have now been removed, and the fifth statue to Robert E. Lee is slated for removal. As the statue to Stonewall Jackson came down, people gathered across the traffic circle at the First Baptist Church — a church that had been intentionally relocated from downtown in the late 1920s to be nearer to the monuments. Members of the congregation rang the bronze church bell in celebration, the same bell that their ancestors had offered to the Confederate army to be melted down to make canons. In my home state of Mississippi, the Mississippi Baptist Convention — the state arm of the Southern Baptist Convention — called on the governor and the legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s banner, the last remaining state flag that incorporated that symbol of the Confederacy.
When I wrapped the book manuscript last fall, I would not have imagined these memorials to white supremacy would have fallen in just a few weeks’ time. But the question before us is whether we’ll take the next steps to see and topple the White Christian worldview that legitimized these symbols in the first place.
Q: Is the white-supremacist mind-set a Trump problem or a GOP problem?
A: The roots of the GOP problem go back at least to the toleration and execution of the Southern Strategy to win elections. When such a tactic is deployed for half a century, no one should be surprised when white-supremacist sentiments turn out to be an animating core of group identity. I hope there can be a more honest reckoning, both for the Republican Party and for its White Christian base that has provided theological and moral cover for this strategy.
Trump’s recent racist comments that he is going to protect those living “the Suburban Lifestyle Dream” from the threat of “low-income housing” in their neighborhoods, or his refusal to condemn the display of the Confederate flag at public events and venues, are simply unremarkable in the light of this history. Trump is most accurately understood as the inevitable end of a road paved brick by brick through 13 presidential election cycles since 1968. By the time the RNC attempted to apologize for the Southern Strategy in 2005 or advocated for a more pragmatic and humane immigration policy in its “autopsy report” after [Mitt] Romney’s 2012 defeat, this runaway freight train simply had too much momentum behind it to be easily derailed.
But I do think the clarity of the current moment is calling the moral question in this election like no other in my lifetime. There is an opportunity here, for both the GOP and for White Christians who are a part of its foundation, to rebuild a party of principle that rejects white supremacy and strategies that stoke white racial fears and grievances.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ristianity-republican-party/#comments-wrapper
Q: Do you think we are at a moment when White Christians’ mind-set can change?
A: There are signs that we are at a unique moment of opportunity. This time last year, I was conducting research for the book in Richmond. I walked the length of Monument Avenue in the shadow of five massive monuments to leaders of the Confederacy, which had stood in their places for more than a century. The bronze statues at the center of four of these monuments have now been removed, and the fifth statue to Robert E. Lee is slated for removal. As the statue to Stonewall Jackson came down, people gathered across the traffic circle at the First Baptist Church — a church that had been intentionally relocated from downtown in the late 1920s to be nearer to the monuments. Members of the congregation rang the bronze church bell in celebration, the same bell that their ancestors had offered to the Confederate army to be melted down to make canons. In my home state of Mississippi, the Mississippi Baptist Convention — the state arm of the Southern Baptist Convention — called on the governor and the legislature to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state’s banner, the last remaining state flag that incorporated that symbol of the Confederacy.
When I wrapped the book manuscript last fall, I would not have imagined these memorials to white supremacy would have fallen in just a few weeks’ time. But the question before us is whether we’ll take the next steps to see and topple the White Christian worldview that legitimized these symbols in the first place.
Q: Is the white-supremacist mind-set a Trump problem or a GOP problem?
A: The roots of the GOP problem go back at least to the toleration and execution of the Southern Strategy to win elections. When such a tactic is deployed for half a century, no one should be surprised when white-supremacist sentiments turn out to be an animating core of group identity. I hope there can be a more honest reckoning, both for the Republican Party and for its White Christian base that has provided theological and moral cover for this strategy.
Trump’s recent racist comments that he is going to protect those living “the Suburban Lifestyle Dream” from the threat of “low-income housing” in their neighborhoods, or his refusal to condemn the display of the Confederate flag at public events and venues, are simply unremarkable in the light of this history. Trump is most accurately understood as the inevitable end of a road paved brick by brick through 13 presidential election cycles since 1968. By the time the RNC attempted to apologize for the Southern Strategy in 2005 or advocated for a more pragmatic and humane immigration policy in its “autopsy report” after [Mitt] Romney’s 2012 defeat, this runaway freight train simply had too much momentum behind it to be easily derailed.
But I do think the clarity of the current moment is calling the moral question in this election like no other in my lifetime. There is an opportunity here, for both the GOP and for White Christians who are a part of its foundation, to rebuild a party of principle that rejects white supremacy and strategies that stoke white racial fears and grievances.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
More on Robert Jones' thoughts on the need for a moral awakening among white christians.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ristian-america-needs-moral-awakening/614641/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/8967...on-with-legacy-of-white-supremacy-author-says
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ristian-america-needs-moral-awakening/614641/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/8967...on-with-legacy-of-white-supremacy-author-says
cajunrevenge
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I ask that question about a lot of things daily but mostly about Trump. It's probably because Biden isnt the President.
cajunrevenge
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Criminal probe into Trump not limited to payoffs to the various prostitutes he cheated on his wife with.
acesfull86
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Probably because his record of not being a buffoon speaks for itself. Nothing to answer for because the other guy is worse!
cajunrevenge
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That axios HBO interview was something. Literally every answer was bat**** crazy. Asked about John Lewis he said he doesnt know anything about John Lewis...... except that he didnt come to his inauguration.... he should have come to his inauguration.....
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
cajunrevenge
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After every question I was like "gonna post about that one" but they were all so bat**** insane that its just too much to post individually.