Rick Reuben wrote:fancyjamtime wrote: Show me a left-leaning believer in Armageddon and I'll show you a schizophrenic.
You're mixing up 'liberal' and 'left'. I said that there are many people on the Left who take what is in Revelations seriously. They vote Democratic. They're on the Left. This pisses off 'urban sophisticate liberals', because they hate the idea that they have to share the Left with people they despise, like lower income/working class Christians.
What? How do urban sophisticate liberals despise lower income/working class Christians? They might not appreciate the way they vote on some issues but liberals have always championed the issues of the working class.
I am always dumbfounded when an unemployed guy votes Republican because he isn't voting in his own best interest. He is typically tricked into voting that way because of the demagoguery of the right. If the left were fucking smart they would work harder for the Christian vote by emphasing human rights/civil rights/charity etc.
I think this may be what Obama is doing. I'm not a Christian and I'm a firm beliver in the separation of church and state. However, it does occur to me that charitable religious people (and yes, there are a good many of them) agree more with the tenants of the left and would vote as such if they shut out the demagogues.
Robert Anton Wilson wrote:The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental