If you could ask the #Republican candidate (who shall remain nameless in these posts) any question at the upcoming #PresidentialDebate, what would you ask?
If you know what it is, you probably know why it's terrifying -- not just for liberals, but for everyone with an interest in protecting #democracy
If you don't know what it is, or if you've heard about it in passing and have wondered if it's some kind of conspiracy theory or paranoid fantasy -- it's not.
This powerful, hope-imparting 12-minute overview from #Maddow gave me back my foundation.
It reminded me of my personal responsibility to support election workers, court workers, and others who are doing the dangerous job of keeping our #legal system functioning.
It reminded me not to be cowed.
If it does the same for you, maybe #boost this so others get the same inspiration.
@SamCrawley@politicalscience Not a critique of the work per se, but I really wish that the discourse would move away from the term "belief" when applied to climate science.
Either someone accepts the evidence, or they don't.
@phil_stevens@politicalscience Agree that it's about accepting science (or not)
At the same time, this really is about people's belief systems. That's really what I'm talking about when I say climate is a cultural issue, fewer cultural conservatives accept climate science. So in that respect it is about "belief" (in my view at least)
(Arguably, we often engage with science through our belief systems, since it's impossible for anyone to understand all science).
🇺🇸 How Christianity’s Decline Impacts White Christians’ Emotional and Attitudinal Response
“Racial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated.”
@bibliolater@politicalscience I will just say this much. For a couple decades or so I attended fundamentalist/evangelical churches, but if I had had even the slightest inkling that they were racist I would have been out of there so fast it would have made their heads spin. I got disillusioned with the church after I realized that they had not been telling the truth about several things (in particular about hell, they never bothered to mention that three or four very different words with completely different meanings in the original languages had all been translated to the English word "hell" and that dishonest preachers conflated all those words in order to control people) but even then I had not seen any overt racism. It was such a shock to see the type of people I had fellowshipped with for years suddenly turn into Trump supporters and racists and generally awful people. I mean, I knew that black people generally went to their own churches but I never heard anyone say that they couldn't come into the ones I attended, but then in retrospect they probably would not have made a big scene about it.
Now the way I feel about it, I would never go back to one of those churches again. They have lost me forever. In a way I feel sorry for them because they are being played big time by politicians that are just pandering to them as long as they are "useful idiots", but who will drop them like a hot potato once they are no longer useful. But having seen how easily they abandoned their core beliefs (in particular the teachings of Jesus) I have to conclude that there is nothing to their religion. They are like all of us in that they believe what they want to believe, but when what you believe includes hate and authoritarism, then I want no part of your beliefs.
From the Republican perspective, this election is not actually about policy or governance. It's about the GOP's project to change the American form of government from democracy to autocracy.
Some impressions of exploring DC by bicycle while getting acquainted with the time difference. Monday will be my first day in presence as NRW research fellow at the American-German Institute in cooperation with NRW School of Governance and the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westfalia
How exactly do scandals affect policymaking for stricter lobbying regulation? For the blog #Regulating#Lobbying (Raj Chari, Michele Crepaz), Sandra Plümer and I summarized our findings for the case of the German Lobbying Register. Check it out in section 'Work of Colleagues': t.ly/y1Gvx @politicalscience#publicpolicy