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Ashethan posted...

Yeah, but there's a huge difference between "Hey, we've never had a female President before. A woman winning will be smashing that glass ceiling!" and "We're a Christian Nation!" One is a group that's been long marginalized and had their identity become an obstacle for them, and the other is a group that only thinks they've been marginalized because some stores decide to say "Happy Holidays" instead of a specific "Merry Christmas!"

evangelicals will also mention things like abortion, abstinence, marriage, etc. they'll also mention the collapse of the nuclear family, though that ain't much of a Christian thing. not that i think any of it matters for this particular subject, just don't want them to be strawman'd to that extreme is all. the point is still that when a candidate uses this identifying factor like this they are signaling with it as a positive and are trying to use it as leverage for your vote. hence why i call it them using a card. it's fine if you agree, that's just what they're playing and you'll see people in favor of it as well as people rolling their eyes with a "oh it's this again" attitude. and a bunch who were in favor calling that group out because, by associating candidate with group, they've assumed that any attack on the candidate for this must be because of an attack of said group, which is part of why the eyerolling happened to begin with.

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