125 Everyone wants to expel Christians from the tent.
Nope. They simply don’t want the party to be saddled with christian-only positions.
There’s a thing called math. Let’s try using it.
Say we have 130 million voters. 30 million are socialists (left.) 100 million are either centrist or anti-socialist.
The rabid “christians” (I scarequote this because only a minority of christians are rabid) insist that their religious beliefs are to be front and center to the anti-socialist movement. However, this rabid sect comprises a laughably small minority of the anti-socialist vote.
By removing the rabid beliefs from the movement, the anti-socialists now tap 100 million voters.
And yes I can prove the rabid contention easily. From another PJM thread:
“South Dakota (a red state): 2004 and 2008 the anti-abortion groups had state level ballot measures to outlaw abortion. Billboards presenting the pro-life case are all over the state on the road approaches to countless little uber-religious little towns just like the summer town. It’s the very picture of small town white America. The anti-abortion groups not only lost in that red state, but they were outright stomped. And it was the pious residents of the supposed pro-life towns who dunnit.”
As you can see the rabid position doesn’t win in a red state, and it certainly doesn’t play better outside of places like that. The insistence of adopting social policy positions of a rabid minority is not only a cancer, but is completely out of proportion to the actual makeup of the GOP, much less the anti-socialist viewpoint.
The goal here is to gain government so as to keep the republic working as a republic, not to gain government hoping to impose the rabid minority’s social policy position. There is a great deal at stake and the rabid “christians” are willing to play nuclear brinksmanship with the only party that can save the republic.
