Conservative Christians Keep Voting For Predators. Here's Why

[Nevilledog]

https://timwhitakerspeaks.substack.com/p/conservative-christians-keep-voting

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The Lesser-of-Two-Evils Indoctrination

Because as a former evangelical, I can tell you that the logic goes something like this:

Sure, maybe Republican candidate A isn’t perfect, but he’s going to be much better than any Democrat.

That’s how it works. It’s that simple.

This indoctrination, that Democrats are always worse than any Republican candidate, is very powerful. It’s part of what makes it so hard to break through to the people still in that dark, damp basement of evangelicalism.

This is how you get the “lesser of two evils” talking point during the 2020 and 2024 elections. Maybe you had friends who are more conservative but didn’t like Trump but thought that Biden or Harris would be so much worse. They’ve been taught since day one: nothing is worse than the Democrat in power. Nothing

And what they’ll tell you is: “Yeah, look, Trump isn’t great, but Biden would have been so much worse.”

And then you say, “Well, on what?”

And they’ll say, “Well, probably abortion.”

But then when you show them that abortion rates went up under Trump they’ll move to a different issue like the broad topic of the economy, whatever that means. But when you show them that Trump exploded our national debt, they’ll move to another issue.

The goalpost is always moving.

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