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Topic	Why do you only need 1.5 MILLION Signatures to RECALL in California???
wpot 09/16/21 2:24:26 PM #46:	OhhhJa posted... Where do you think the party's battle against climate change legislation comes from? Are you kidding? Oil and coal big business, maybe? OhhhJa posted... Let's not forget the decades long fight to have creationism taught in school or take evolution discussion out of the classroom. That is one of the "red meat" topics that gets people worked up, yes, but do you really think the big business guys cared about that (or even believed in it)? OhhhJa posted... republican party policy hasn't been influenced by Christian fundamentalism "Influenced", sure. It was the dog that they cynically kept on a leash so they could keep lowering taxes, to speak crudely. And now it's all been overtaken by the cult of "the freedom to do whatever I want", which doesn't turn off the majority of so-called Christian fundamentalists because they are far more Republicans than they are fundamentalists these days. OhhhJa posted... Oh, you mean, like calling my argument bait. Oh, fair enough: I slipped. The problem we moderates have is that we're so unwilling to get into the gutter and yell with everyone else that we're going to get carried away by the screamers in the internet age. I'm trying to learn how to be more effective with that. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. <cite>wpot posted [p:958115855] in Why do you... [t:79662258]...</cite> <quote>OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>Where do you think the party's battle against climate change legislation comes from?</quote>Are you kidding? Oil and coal big business, maybe? OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>Let's not forget the decades long fight to have creationism taught in school or take evolution discussion out of the classroom.</quote>That is one of the "red meat" topics that gets people worked up, yes, but do you really think the big business guys cared about that (or even believed in it)? OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>republican party policy hasn't been influenced by Christian fundamentalism</quote>"Influenced", sure. It was the dog that they cynically kept on a leash so they could keep lowering taxes, to speak crudely. And now it's all been overtaken by the cult of "the freedom to do whatever I want", which doesn't turn off the majority of so-called Christian fundamentalists because they are far more Republicans than they are fundamentalists these days. OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>Oh, you mean, like calling my argument bait.</quote>Oh, fair enough: I slipped. The problem we moderates have is that we're so unwilling to get into the gutter and yell with everyone else that we're going to get carried away by the screamers in the internet age. I'm trying to learn how to be more effective with that. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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