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>and that religion was crazy. This is the real sticking point here. If you're not a highly religious person (or at least willing to claim to be one), and not
by Arizhel 10y ago
>and that religion was crazy.
This is the real sticking point here. If you're not a highly religious person (or at least willing to claim to be one), and not willing to publicly advocate religion in your campaign, then you're not going to get anywhere in the Republican Party.
Republican voters simply will NOT vote for someone who isn't religious. And non-religious voters will not vote for a Republican.
- almost_usual 10y ago"Republican voters simply will NOT vote for someone who isn't religious" The majority probably won't. "And non-religious voters will not vote for a Republican" This isn't true. I know atheists who voted Republican this election purely for economic reasons. Spending nearly $1000 a month on Affordable Healthcare will do that to people.
- Arizhel 10y agoYou have a good point at the end there; I'm wrong, there is a contingent of non-religious people who vote Republican because of the fiscal conservatism stuff (though that's pretty suspect considering how they spend like drunken sailors on the DoD budget every time they're in power). But my main point stands: if you're a scientist, and not spouting a bunch of religious stuff, you're simply not going to get elected on the GOP ticket. The majority of GOP voters simply will not be interested, and you need a majority to get elected; the only way around this is if you're running for some office where there's no challengers so you just pick up the (R) votes from GOP voters who blindly vote (R) no matter what. But you're not going to get very far doing that, just local office.