One reason Donald Trump won the presidency was because he received overwhelming support from self-described “Evangelical Christians.” Now I have a hard time comprehending how any Christian could support such a hate-filled raving lunatic like Donald Trump. In my opinion, he is the most un Christ-like candidate I have ever seen. The fact that he won such a big majority of this voting bloc is appalling.
I understand that many of these folks are obsessed with abortion and hating on the gays, but why do they ignore all other issues? Maybe they are brainwashed by their pastors who tell them that they have to vote Republican to “save babies” or some such bullshit. Some churches hand out “voter guides” to their people which tell them they have to vote Republican because all that matters in politics is outlawing abortion and denying gay Americans their civil rights. I’m no Biblical expert, but as far as I know Jesus never condemned gay people and I don’t think he ever mentioned abortion.
We had a candidate who openly bragged about having extramarital affairs, groping women’s vaginas and who bragged about making advances on married women. And he overwhelmingly won the votes of Evangelical Christians!! How could they ignore all of this and so overwhelmingly support this asshole? It is disgusting. Maybe some of these folks aren’t as good Christians as they think they are. Many of these folks have the nerve to say Democrats can’t be good Christians because Democrats are pro-choice and then they go and vote for an ADMITTED sexual predator for president. The hypocrisy is stunning.
But it is not just about Trump being such a disgusting asshole. It is that the entire Republican agenda is pretty much the opposite of everything Jesus stood for. Think about it.
Republicans love their guns and hate any kind of gun control. They don’t even want universal background checks. They don’t even support reasonable gun control laws that are designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and insane people. They want MORE nuclear weapons. We already have enough nuclear weapons to lay waste to the surface of the Earth many times over, but that’s not enough. Idiot Trump just the other day said he wants a new arms race. Yea, that’s real Christian. If Jesus was here he would want more guns and nuclear weapons, right? All I remember is that Jesus never encouraged violence in any way. I don’t think he would be a big fan of having a new arms race.
Trump ran his campaign in part on promising to take health insurance away from millions of people. Speaker Paul Ryan is promising to try to destroy Medicare and Medicaid and potentially take health care away from countless many more millions of people. And he claims he is a Christian. How can a Christian so adamantly want to take health care away from people? The hypocrisy astounds me. From what I remember Jesus actually gave people free healthcare. I don’t think Jesus would want these programs destroyed. Jesus would want elderly people and poor people to have access to healthcare, and the republican hypocrites want to take it away from as many people as possible!
Jesus told the rich man: “Sell what you have and give it to the poor." Republicans say: we need tax cuts for the rich. And these tax cuts they want will be at the expense of the poor and the middle class. This is just the opposite of Christianity in my view.
Jesus wasn’t a racist, a bigot and he didn’t hate anyone. Trump and many of his supporters are filled with hate for anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian and conservative. The hypocrisy is just astounding.
Democrats need to do a better job of trying to reach SOME of these voters. Some are of course unreachable. The ones who are obsessed with abortion are unreachable. But Dems need to start trying to point out to some of these voters just how un-Christian so many Republican policies really are. It seems like Dems don’t even try to do this. They need to at least start trying to do this more.
If you ever get in an argument with one of these folks and they say “Democrats can’t be good Christians because they are pro-choice,” then ask them how they can claim to be Christians and vote to take health care away from millions of people. And then ask them how they can vote for an asshole who thinks we don’t have enough nuclear weapons already and who wants a new arms race.