>>I don't like to frame issues as democrat vs. republican.
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>The republicans are the conservatives, aren't they? And the U.S. is a democratic republic. So, that means the republicans will strive to conserve the democratic republic. So, they are like the democrats.
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>The democrats are not trying to establish a kingdom, aren't they? And the U.S. is a republican democracy. So, that means the democrats will strive to conserve the republican democracy. So, they are like the republicans.
Dude - sometimes you make my brain hurt.
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>What strikes me is that both parties are unable to produce a president who is not in the Lord.
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>Perhaps there is room for a new political party? How about an atheist party? And in the long run an atheist president?
I doubt it. The vast majority of the voting population in the US is religious to some degree or another, and politicians of all stripes like to play to that fact. For some presidents, religion is merely a robe they wear - Clinton didn't strike me as a particularly God-fearing individual.
The problem with atheism is that it is practically a religion unto itself here. I'd settle for an agnostic party.
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