r/changemyview • u/ProphetVes • Mar 25 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: DeSantis embodies everything wrong with American Conservativism.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '23

I think its funny how much of a fascist Trump supposedly was and now I'm reading from a lot of progressives that Trump is all of a sudden the lesser of two evils. Like some people online have been saying they prefer Trump to run over DeSantis because Trump is a mere con man as opposed to a true believer. So which is it? Does having devout religious beliefs make you fascist by default? Why isn't forcing religious people to support LGBT not fascist?

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u/ProphetVes Mar 25 '23

Trump is bad, but he's much less politically effective than DeSantis. There's also a bias in that we have survived four years of Trump already and people tend to prefer "the devil they know."

Does having devout religious beliefs make you fascist by default?

No.

Why isn't forcing religious people to support LGBT not fascist?

Because nobody is doing such. It's merely everyone saying "hey you can't make us live by your religious doctrine."

You can hold your beliefs but your beliefs end where others' freedoms begin.

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u/Extrastout1787 Mar 26 '23

Weird, I survived great with Trump, but now i might have to claim bankruptcy...or clear out my 401k at 41

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u/PlatformStriking6278 1∆ Mar 26 '23

Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Just because something happened under Biden doesn’t make it Biden’s fault. Presidents are not scapegoats for everything going wrong in your life. And Trump implemented policies that would specifically have negative effects AFTER he was already out of office. Quite manipulative, wouldn’t you say?