“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”

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    What I’m saying is if those people, an incredibly too large demographic who put up flags and crosses next to pictures of Trump, actually knew more about what is going on in the world and in politics other than a shallow biased conservative media outlook, they probably wouldn’t support Trump. Only a small fraction actually know what he’s done and still support him.

    Studies support this theory with more educated individuals leaning democrat than republican, the trend continuing as level of education increases, and additionally studies also show democrat voters are more capable of discerning fake news from real news on a wide variety of topics. Another recent poll showed Texas conservatives were unaware that their political party’s abortion ban held absolutely no exceptions.

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      Studies support this theory with more educated individuals leaning democrat than republican

      That’s dubious. More people with college debt lean Democrat, but that’s largely thanks to age and population distribution. People with high incomes skew Republican, and plenty of them are in law or medicine or finance.

      And even this tend isn’t reliable long term. The collapse of the Union movement combined with the right wing radio consolidation killed the blue collar Dem voter base. Hardly someone to brag about. Republicans were historically the intelligencia minority and took a hard right popular turn under Nixon/Reagan.

      The Texas “liberal turn” has been confined to major metro areas and squelched by the same vote suppression tactics state officials employed in minority ghettos for decades. There’s very little reason to believe this state will turn blue any time soon.

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        Lmao wtf do you mean “collapse of the Union movement”? The railworkers got the paid sick leave they were striking for, UAW is making the GOP sweat and cry, the SCOTUS (compromised as they are) just made it easier for people to file discrimination suits when workers are forced to relocate or lose their job.

        This is exactly the shit I’m talking about. More conservative mindsets like this are purely due to lack of awareness of events.

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          The share of U.S. workers who belong to a union has fallen since 1983, when 20.1% of American workers were union members. In 2023, 10.0% of U.S. workers were in a union.

          This, while the size of the US labor force doubled.