re: #118 SanFranciscoZionist

We already have austerity here that would be causing riots anywhere else in the world. We’re used to it, as we have a long-standing social norm that says that the poor receive as little help as humanly possible.

I think one of the things that turned me against the right wing I associated myself with (I mean GOP conservative politics) is the religious angle.

Now, I was not a religous person but because I took history as a minor in college and kept that up all my life I was well aware of religious doctrines of many faiths and of Christianity in particular. When I saw them distort Christian teaching to justify everything under the sun for the conservative cause including war and no taxes and limited govt when clearly the Christian doctrine was not saying that I kind of started to see the light taht I was in a cult not a political movement.

By the way, did we used to converse on Freerepublic back in the day?