...as a late aside, at a detail from 2 pages back ...
some the most stringent criticism of Trump came from explicitly
Christian backgrounds...
So? That just means that
perhaps my party is moving away from being the 'religious right' to being right-wing. Again, I'm not religious.
Nanshork, Pxy, I'm not arguing against gay marriage. I don't care about gay marriage either way, being neither gay, pro-gay nor anti-gay. Yes marriage has crap tied to it that have to do with tying people together as a family. My view of marriage is as a commitment whose purpose is to make solid families for kids to be socialized and educated in. So the point of non-breeding marriage is lost on me. And as I said before, the money stuff is
anachronistic if men and women, indeed all adults, are equal; they were there so the woman, and any kids, could retain some income after the bread-winner left/died. Only in the case of kids being included do they have any modern relevance.
Ranieh, that supposes that the reason that more kids who are black are getting shot because the cops are racist or afraid of them. With roughly half of incarcerated violent offenders being people who're black, perhaps the kids are just encountering the police that much more often, thus increasing their
risk. What I mean is that presuming a person being stopped by police has a certain percentage chance to get shot, if some people encounter police more frequently, their risk increases. This argument presumes that the
majority of incarcerated people are indeed guilty of the crime they're in for.
Regarding Trump's flips, if this is correct then I'm disappointed, but unsurprised. Time will tell what actually transpires. I recall a few campaign promises of other presidents. Not a lot of follow through there either.