Everyone is bound to eventually hate him, because it is as if he is going through every group in the world and giving them a middle finger one after the other. One day it is Canadians, the next USA farmers, then Greenland, then posting racist memes. Sometimes he sits up all night posting hateful nonsense about people like Rosie O’Donnell or Treveor Noah. It’s exhausting how much of a hater he is.

BUT it is other haters who enabled Trump. It is a deep cultural rot that needs addressing, namely the evil excesses of capitalism and racism.

I feel sometimes like many of them almost acknowledge their weird dichotomies but compartmentalize it. For example, to support ICE to me seems inherently unchristian, because the bible including the new testament constantly talks about treating foreigners well and being peaceful/forgiving/non-materialistic.

But they will excuse voting for Trump by saying “well, he isn’t my preacher!”. To me that is simply moral relativism, so the Christian part is even more odd, how they barely ever display the values the bible says that they are supposed to live by. It is totally superficial and a country-club type arrangement.

The government is a proxy that allows their bigotry to manifest in the real world, while they can still wear a fake smile and say “I’ll pray for you” and in their own mind they are an agent of peace on earth through their prayers. Christianity (USA right-wing varieties) to me is a strange broken mindset, I grew up with reformed Christianity and have had to purge it from my mind as an adult.

Unsurprising. Usually the far-right church infrastructure also buys tickets in bulks to these types of events.

I used to date a woman whose dad was a pastor and his church would get bulk tickets to stuff like Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ to give out like candy. It undoubtedly inflated the box office numbers.