How does anyone not see it and get what’s happening? I feel like you would have to have eaten ALL the crazy pills for this to make sense.

I keep repeating this, and people don’t like to hear it, but 75% of American Adults identify as religious, 68% as Christian.

The majority of Americans are willing to discard logic, reason, and evidence in favor of believing in an imaginary man in the sky. These aren’t usually simple spiritual belief systems either, these are complex religious, historical, and social belief systems the rely entirely on “faith” to believe - or to believe it because you were told to, not because there are any real-world reasons to give these beliefs validity. The beliefs that the majority of Americans believe in range from “demonstrably false” to “having no evidence”, and yet people believe in these things with their whole hearts.

With the most devout (read: immovably stubborn) Christians concentrated on the right, it is no surprise at all that the far-right is completely divorced from reality. Republicans treat their political views like they are a matter of faith already. They believe, despite the lack of any evidence of it, that Jesus Christ personally supports their party and their candidates.

Now, inevitably someone will chime in here to say “but Todd, I believe in the almighty skydaddy, are you saying that I am stupid?”. Yes, I certainly am. My point here is that the further disconnected from reality we get, the worse our decisions get, and if you believe that there is a supernatural entity watching you from the sky deciding whether or not to torture you with fire, you are disconncted from reality and I trust you less than I would someone that doesn’t believe obviously fake shit.

We should count non-voting eligible voters like this, and if not voting wins in your state you don’t get any delegates for the electoral college.

Then just scrap the “first past the post” system and whoever gets the most delegates wins. In 2016 it would be Clinton with 51 vs. Trump’s 16.