I am worried, I don’t get worried often but the elections are creating a deep divide and the rhetoric coming out of one particular party is creating talk of violence is the outcome of the elections doesn’t go their way.
The Washington Post said this is Trump loses,
If Trump loses next year, he won’t be the incumbent president he was in 2020, debating about the federal government seizing voting machines, reportedly entertaining conversations about imposing martial law, using the presidential megaphone to convince his supporters that rampant voter fraud stole a second term from him.But he will still have an unusually strong bond with his followers. Some of the 2021 rioters said he motivated them, raising questions of what he might do if defeated in 2024.[…]One thing that’s not in doubt is the intensity with which Trump hates being seen as a loser. In 2016, that led him to seemingly question the legitimacy of an election that gave him the White House but in which Hillary Clinton carried the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.Trump falsely claimed 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally, including 1 million in California.Trump stood up a voter-fraud task force. It disbanded without finding evidence of widespread voter fraud, much less substantiating his claims.Imagine the intensity of his reaction if he loses to Biden — again — in 2024.
The thing is no one really knows what they will do if Trump loses, will he stir them up in a frenzy.
They are not just the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.The New York TimesBy Ruth Graham and Charles HomansJanuary 8, 2024She still identifies as an evangelical Christian, but she doesn’t believe going to church is necessary to commune with God. “I have my own little thing with the Lord,” she says.Ms. Johnson’s thing includes frequent prayer, she said, as well as podcasts and YouTube channels that discuss politics and “what’s going on in the world” from a right-wing, and sometimes Christian, worldview. No one plays a more central role in her perspective than Donald J. Trump, the man she believes can defeat the Democrats who, she is certain, are destroying the country and bound for hell.“Trump is our David and our Goliath,” Ms. Johnson said recently as she waited outside a hotel in eastern Iowa to hear the former president speak.White evangelical Christian voters have lined up behind Republican candidates for decades, driving conservative cultural issues into the heart of the party’s politics and making nominees and presidents of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
These are the holier than thou evangelical Christians are trying to force their religion on us.
But religion scholars, drawing on a growing body of data, suggest another explanation: Evangelicals are not exactly who they used to be.Being evangelical once suggested regular church attendance, a focus on salvation and conversion and strongly held views on specific issues such as abortion. Today, it is as often used to describe a cultural and political identity: one in which Christians are considered a persecuted minority, traditional institutions are viewed skeptically and Mr. Trump looms large.“Politics has become the master identity,” said Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor. “Everything else lines up behind partisanship.”
The Bible has been supplanted by the fist and the fear of being overrun by the infidels and Trump is stirring them up even more.
At a recent rally in Waterloo, Iowa, Mr. Trump cast Christians as a broadly persecuted group facing down a government weaponized against them. Catholics are the current target of “the communists, Marxists and fascists,” he said, citing a recent controversy about a retracted F.B.I. memo, and adding that “evangelicals will not be far behind.”
It is all lies and he is preying in their fears to stir them up to possible violence.
“This election is part of a spiritual battle,” Mr. Tenney said. “When Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States, there will be retribution against all those who have promoted evil in this country.”
These are the people that I am concerned about, the ones who feel they are on a mission from god.
NPRBy Ashley LopezOctober 25, 2023Tensions are high among American voters ahead of presidential contests next year, according to a new national survey released Wednesday by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in partnership with the Brookings Institution.Researchers found that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe democracy is 'at risk' in the upcoming presidential election — and about a quarter of those surveyed said they think "American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country.""I think we're in for a pretty challenging election season between now and the presidential election in 2024," said Robert Jones, the CEO and founder of the PRRI — a nonpartisan group that conducts research on the intersection of politics, culture and religion.According to the PRRI study, 75% of Americans surveyed said they agree that the "future of American democracy is at risk in the 2024 presidential election." Democrats were more likely to hold this view with 84% support, but supermajorities of Republicans and independent voters said they also agreed with that statement.Jones told NPR the most disturbing finding, however, is that more Americans support political violence. Nearly a quarter of Americans (23%) agree that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country," according to the survey. This is up from 15% in 2021.
I think that the answer to the question of why we know. It is a certain politician and his political cult followers are the ones stirring up the animosity against those who are different, a different skin color, a different national origin, a different religion, a different sexual orientation, and a different gender identity that that was assigned at birth… they create fear the “other.”
While Americans across the political spectrum feel democracy is at risk next year, support for political violence runs mostly along party lines.Currently one-third of Republicans support violence as a means to save the country, compared with 22% of independents and 13% of Democrats, the survey found. More specifically, Republicans who have favorable views of Donald Trump were found to be "nearly three times as likely as Republicans who have unfavorable views of Trump" to support political violence.
They is the party that wants to…
- Tells women what they can do or not do to their bodies,
- That steps between a doctor and their patients,
- That tells us what we can say,
- That tells us what we can read,
- That tells us who we can love!
But they call themselves the party that will get the government out of you lives.
Vote!
Vote Blue!
Vote Blue and save the life of a trans person, save the life of a pregnant woman who needs an abortion to save her life. Vote Blue to be able to read what you want to and not what the government wants you to only read. Vote Blue to save a democracy.
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