George
@nonlinearbotanist
Baroque mind that loves Baroque music. Broken mind that loves breakaway minds. I am 68. A radical environmentalist. Happily married for 36 years. Dual citizen. In Canada - NDP or Green Party. In the US - straight Democratic ticket. I am sort of retired.
Belief is not the opposite of knowledge not even close. Think of it like this
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faced racism and misogyny on top of all this. I can go on and on talking about political cleavages, genocide etc but I want to end with some data. Look at the data for 2024 and ask yourself, wasn’t this likely to be a very close race.
Want to understand why the working class is going right/choosing not vote.
As of April, 2025 (and there is good reason to believe Trump has lost Christian support since then) a slight majority of Christians disapproved of Trump.
I think it is obvious from the data we are asking the wrong question. It isn’t people that didn’t vote that cost us the election in 2024. According to Pew Research more of the non voters would have voted Trump than Harris if they had voted.
This is what the United Church of Canada pays its religious leaders. Nobody is getting rich.
Okay let’s try the graphics again. The graph is of the relationship between family income and life expectancy. The map shows with dark red the worst, that if you are poor where you live has a significant impact on your live expectancy.
Of course it is not quite this simple. The first graph shows the relationship between family income and life expectancy in America. The map shows that where the poor live in America matters greatly to life expectancy.
More than a third of American Christians are Progressive Christians. That is we share the following core principle.
I encourage everyone who cares about the issue of homelessness in America to read the article from NPR and then the fact sheet from the United Way. But always remember homelessness reflects America back at itself. unitedwaynca.org/blog/vacant-...
As a farmer and rancher I want to post two charts for all the non farmers. The first shows how the vast majority of farms (86+%) are small. The second shows farm median household income for different sized farms and shows how little income small farmers make from farm operations.
As a “rich” farmer I voted against my self interest, voting the Democratic ticket 100%. I do want to point out however, you and the New Republic are wrong. 86.1% of farmers have less than $350,000 in gross income. The USDA says their income from farming is less than $35,000. #1.
You might find this interesting. From www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...
I just came across this from Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social. This is why Progressive Christians don’t take the Bible literally.
Every year we plant more perennial plants that are native to here in East Central Alberta. In the foreground are Golden Sedges (Carex aurea). Ironically, they are probably native where you live as well since they grow throughout most of North America.
You misunderstand me. I strongly support taxing churches. The meme was inaccurate, even misleading. I was additionally pointing out that few churches would oppose taxation because it wouldn’t matter to them. What is a medium sized church?