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Cambridge Analytica showed that they figured out that people who are highly religious can be manipulated easily. They are called them something like “low inform

Cambridge Analytica showed that they figured out that people who are highly religious can be manipulated easily. They are called them something like “low information” voters. Meaning they vote more on emotion vs facts. The fact that Trump got the religion vote astounds me as he seems to hold no Christian morality at all.

wysisyg 8y ago
It is surprising that Trump got the religious vote, since he had shown support for abortion previously, had been divorced multiple times, and engaged in recreational sex with women he was not married to. Maybe religious people aren't the one-dimensional voters that you imagined them to be. But if you were to admit that, how would you slam both Trump and non-atheists in the same post?
- croon 8y ago
  "Despite being a good god-fearing American, I'll vote for Satan in 2020, because of his fiscal conservatism and his views that immigrant children should be separated from their parents" Your point would be valid if religion was a low priority hobby. It isn't, so (a subset of) [religious voting block] are just religious when it suits them, ie hypocrites.
  - alien_at_work 8y ago
    Ugh. Is what happened so very difficult to understand? Chistians were faced with voting for someone they were generally not comfortable with vs. someone believed to be truly evil. Her husband votoed a bill to ban so named "partial birth abortion" and Hillary expressed support for late term abortions. If you could get over your contempt for people who see things differently than you do and actually talk with some of them you might find that a lot of people were voting against Hillary instead of for Trump.
    - croon 8y ago
      > Asked by a reporter today what kind of language he could support in a revived bill, Mr. Clinton said he had originally planned to sign the earlier one. > ''The problem is,'' he said, ''there are a few hundred women every year who have personally agonizing situations where their children are born or are about to be born with terrible deformities, which will cause them to die either just before, during or just after childbirth. And these women, among other things, cannot preserve the ability to have further children unless the enormity -- the enormous size of the baby's head is reduced before being extracted from their bodies. > ''You know, Hillary and I, we only had one child. And I just cannot look at a woman who's in a situation where the baby she is bearing, against all her wishes and prayers, is going to die anyway, and tell her that I'm signing a law which will prevent her from ever having another child.'' Clearly a monster of pure evil. And his wife too. Whereas her opponent supported torture, dehumanized immigrants every chance he got, has 5 children with 3 different women, bragged about cheating and sexual assault, lied as easy as breathing. Admittedly after the election, but supported a pedophile, although he joked about dating his daughter years before. I fully stand by exactly what I originally posted. As a raised pentecostal Christian, if that should matter at all.
- alien_at_work 8y ago
  They weren't voting between Trump and no one. The alternative was Hillary Clinton. For a conservative christian you'll have a hard time finding someone they'd be more scared of having as president.
CM30 8y ago
It's all about people have multiple priorities and views really. If Trump's philosophy is closer to yours on various social views despite his religion beliefs being very different, it's possible you may vote for him anyway since you believe the alternative would be worse.
jimjimjim 8y ago
religions seem to have completely embraced the idea of 'the ends justifies the means'. The president could probably reveal himself to be a literal demon and they would still support him.

wysisyg 8y ago

It is surprising that Trump got the religious vote, since he had shown support for abortion previously, had been divorced multiple times, and engaged in recreational sex with women he was not married to. Maybe religious people aren't the one-dimensional voters that you imagined them to be. But if you were to admit that, how would you slam both Trump and non-atheists in the same post?

croon 8y ago
"Despite being a good god-fearing American, I'll vote for Satan in 2020, because of his fiscal conservatism and his views that immigrant children should be separated from their parents" Your point would be valid if religion was a low priority hobby. It isn't, so (a subset of) [religious voting block] are just religious when it suits them, ie hypocrites.
- alien_at_work 8y ago
  Ugh. Is what happened so very difficult to understand? Chistians were faced with voting for someone they were generally not comfortable with vs. someone believed to be truly evil. Her husband votoed a bill to ban so named "partial birth abortion" and Hillary expressed support for late term abortions. If you could get over your contempt for people who see things differently than you do and actually talk with some of them you might find that a lot of people were voting against Hillary instead of for Trump.
  - croon 8y ago
    > Asked by a reporter today what kind of language he could support in a revived bill, Mr. Clinton said he had originally planned to sign the earlier one. > ''The problem is,'' he said, ''there are a few hundred women every year who have personally agonizing situations where their children are born or are about to be born with terrible deformities, which will cause them to die either just before, during or just after childbirth. And these women, among other things, cannot preserve the ability to have further children unless the enormity -- the enormous size of the baby's head is reduced before being extracted from their bodies. > ''You know, Hillary and I, we only had one child. And I just cannot look at a woman who's in a situation where the baby she is bearing, against all her wishes and prayers, is going to die anyway, and tell her that I'm signing a law which will prevent her from ever having another child.'' Clearly a monster of pure evil. And his wife too. Whereas her opponent supported torture, dehumanized immigrants every chance he got, has 5 children with 3 different women, bragged about cheating and sexual assault, lied as easy as breathing. Admittedly after the election, but supported a pedophile, although he joked about dating his daughter years before. I fully stand by exactly what I originally posted. As a raised pentecostal Christian, if that should matter at all.
alien_at_work 8y ago
They weren't voting between Trump and no one. The alternative was Hillary Clinton. For a conservative christian you'll have a hard time finding someone they'd be more scared of having as president.

CM30 8y ago

It's all about people have multiple priorities and views really. If Trump's philosophy is closer to yours on various social views despite his religion beliefs being very different, it's possible you may vote for him anyway since you believe the alternative would be worse.

jimjimjim 8y ago

religions seem to have completely embraced the idea of 'the ends justifies the means'. The president could probably reveal himself to be a literal demon and they would still support him.