Just over half of interviewees (51%) in a Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University study, who identified as “people of faith,” responded that they are likely to vote in the presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. The “people of faith” label is given to those who identify with a recognized religion, such as Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism or Islam.

The study found that approximately 104 million people under the “people of faith” umbrella are not expected to vote this election, including 41 million born-again Christians and 32 million who regularly go to church.

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    Yeah, Bill was pretty neo-liberal. That’s still the center of our electorate, though, that was politicians giving our people what they wanted. Us wanting the wrong things is an education problem, not a corruption problem. Anti-smart-people sentiments are unfortunately very strong in our country, though, as our current climate demonstrates very sadly, though attitudes have been changing. Then Obama’s bailouts of the banks were unfortunately necessary at the time, as bank failures are a good way to worsen an economic crisis. Hilary taking money from financiers isn’t really the coup the media makes it out to be, either, from a neo-liberals perspective such people are very important. Regardless, I like to think we have learned from these economic mistakes.

    Regarding Israel, let’s not pretend the US hasn’t saved some Gazan lives. 2 million people live there, Netanyahu wants them gone, yet most are still alive. How did that happen?

    Again, details are important. We could point to the Build Back Better plan that Biden pushed, almost passed, but wasn’t quite able to. Look at who voted for it. You seem to want to think in “groups” of people, you should cut that out. People are individuals, responsible for their own decisions. We need to pay attention to all of them, regardless of how challenging that becomes. Propagandists will not want to do that, though, they will only point you at entire groups of people, demonizing them. This is no good, and is a strong sign you’ve been propagandized. Simple common sense dictates that a person cannot be judged solely from their group membership.

    edit: Additionally, you may note that even in the height of our neo-liberal 90’s, not everyone voted to repeal Glass-Steagal. 8 Senators had better sense. Most were dems:

    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1061/vote_106_1_00354.htm