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William Farrar's avatar

Pointing out that the GOP is a party of hypocrites and a death party makes no headway among the true believers. They know they are hypocrites, but could care less, pro life is another of those Frank Luntz, Orwellian words, it doesn't mean what people think it means. They do not care about human life after it leaves the womb, they don't care how many people die because of their policies. All they care about is power and control, and they wield words like weapons, and shame on us and the corporate media for buying into the b.s..

There are two tiers here. The so called libertarian, millionaire/Billionaire like Elon Musk, Pete Petersen, Peter Thiel, the owners and CEO's of most corporations and funds, and their minions who do the dirty work, who slavishly go to their beloved organs of propaganda for their daily homily and vote. or trek to the state or federal capitol to overthrow the government. Fired with self righteousness, indignation, anger and angst, they threaten and perform violence on those that they consider their enemy.

Both tiers share a quality, moralizing religiosity, there are two Texas billionaires, both of whom are Domionists who basically control Texas politics Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html.

There is the town of Ave Maria in Flordia founded by Tim Monaghan of Domino's. Barre Seid, an orthodox Jew left his entire estate to the Federalist Society.

Peter Thiel, who was the main instigator of the run on Silicon Valley Bank, is a major Donor to the GOP I do not know his religious affilation, but his donations and sponsorship patterns indicate an intense culture war involvement, Blake Masters and JD Vance both worked for Thiel and were supported by him.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

And on it goes, scratch a billionaire and you find someone deeply invested in a religious based ideology.

Religions is for sociopaths, because people with principles and empathy can not become that wealthy.

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Dr Bob's avatar

I think Peter Thiel is a ‘good’ Catholic, along with Andrew Sullivan. Pathetic.

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