Mike Pence is a History Doofus
Mike Pence wants America to be a Christian country. He doesn’t appear to know that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States both products of the Enlightenment. He also doesn’t seem to know that the framers of the Republic really didn’t want a state religion. I don’t know if Pence has even heard of the enlightenment.
He did get one thing right in this interview. Can you spot it?
“Well, the radical left believes that the freedom of religion is the freedom from religion. But it’s nothing the American founders ever thought of or generations of Americans fought to defend,” Pence said.
And then he said this.
“You know, I said today here in Houston that the source of our nation’s greatness has always been our faith in God, our freedom, and our vast natural resources. And the good news is, that after four years of the Trump-Pence administration, I’m confident that we have a pro-religious freedom majority on the Supreme Court of the United States. And I’m confident that come Election Day, November the 8th, you’re gonna see that freedom majority around the country turn out and vote pro-freedom majorities in the House, and in the Senate, and in statehouses around the country.
“So stay tuned, Larry. Help is on the way.”
The question is why the media feels it necessary to quote a has-been with no political support.
Really? $$$
I’m doubting its value even as clickbait.
Au contraire, mon frere! Pence has admitted the truth, the goal of the Evangelicals is to make all of us bow down to their primitive version of “Christianity”, and even to make us all “go to church”. Strongly suspect I would be banned once I started talking “In tongues”.
Even if it is, he’s in no position to help bring it about, because he has no influence anymore (check the polls) unless the media trumpets what he says.
If it does — and it is doing so — then they are, as usual, engaging in a bad-faith exercise in “Let’s you and him fight.”
For the last 40 years, has the media done anything other than engage in a bad-faith exercise in “Let’s you and him fight.”
Watergate was probably the last gasp of anything Edward R. Murrow would have recognized as journalism.
Pence has to lean heavily into his religious superstition so that he doesn’t succumb to his strong urges when in the company of women.