There is a tendancy in modern public speech to say things that are politically correct. . . that is, before Donald Trump. Political correctness has been the butt of jokes for years despite being important in the workings of all large organizations trying to find common ground by not being offensive to any particular group.
The difference with Donald Trump is that he has found that he is immune from consequences when he is offensive, because he has support from those who still live in era before 1950 and, of course, the evangelicals.
The people who have existed before the modern era, and whose influence still impacts the political scene in the United States through the white nationalist groups, and other crazies, harken back to an era that they can understand. They have not grown either through lack of social circumstance, lack of education or lack of the ability to understand. This is something we need to address. No society can move ahead when 35% of them are still living in the distant past.
The evangelicals are different. They made the calculus that they were willing to trade their convictions for gain. They are faux followers of religion who use their misunderstanding of Christianity, or deliberate hypocrisy, as a way to justify getting what they want . . they are wrapped in the cloth of the savior doing the work of the devil.
And, of course, there are others. But, these are the big ones.
When the people who still live with the mentality of the 1800 to 1950’s will decide to move into the twenty-first century, is anyone’s guess. This is a function of dysfunction.
When will the evangelicals stop being the religious hypocrites that they are and stop sullying the Christian religion?
Probably never.
After all, to quote Donald Trump, ‘I am the least racist person you have ever met . . I don’t have a racist bone in my body’.
Self-deception is alive and well.