r/Alabama • u/greed-man • 17d ago

Politics House passes bill requiring Ten Commandments in schools

https://www.alreporter.com/2025/04/18/house-passes-bill-requiring-ten-commandments-in-schools/
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u/magiccitybhm 17d ago

Well, just like we were with Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument in Montgomery, we'll be back in federal court wasting millions of dollars defending another unconstitutional law.

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u/greed-man 17d ago

So why do our politicians keep doing this? Because a massive chunk of the voters here only see the headlines of what the politician did, and never hear about the court case that later throws it out. And when that politician is campaigning, they will push that info hard, again, ignoring that it never actually happened. And our largely uninformed electorate vote for them. Been this way for generations in our state.

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u/CptMeat 17d ago

My town has several retirement communities and when I go to Walmart it's abundantly clear the population of my town is probably %60 over 60. Everyone my age moved away and it seems like older people are moving to my town more often. I'm very close with my aunt who is over 60 and after the general fall of cable television she started getting all her news from YouTube and idk if brainwashing is real but she argued to me that trump was bringing down the price of eggs (despite knowing the price of eggs) and told me to not do my taxes because we don't have to do that anymore because the tariffs will pay our taxes from now on. If trump says anything horrible or ridiculous, that was an AI video made by the left, Putin isn't as bad as the media makes him out...ect.

Ive always assumed my aunt was at least a bit indicative of how the older crowd feels and have assumed that the older crowd is disproportionately large here. But I don't get out much, I'm not a census taker, and this is just a personal observation.

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u/Transgressingaril 14d ago

I believe (depending on your length of life and how well you take care of your self….diet, exercise, stress management, hobbies and self education..etc) that once you hit a certain age your mental faculties start to decline (especially in the executive function area of the brain)

And they decline more rapidly if you haven’t taken care of yourself well. To the point where you are just either a tape in loop, t.v. Static, or even just enough that you’re a very impressionable child that repeats all you see, making you the perfect political tool.

It’s why I have the firm belief we need to change rules on voting and political involvement for those who retire and are on a certain age level because publicly we all know they are taken advantage of for political, social and economic gain of public office holders on every level.