The "how" question shouldn't be posed as a gotcha but with humility: I don't know this stuff as well as you. How would it work? Once your interlocutors realize they don't know, they become more open to new information and ideas. By abandoning the attempt to persuade Uncle Billy and Aunt Sally to change their minds, we actually make it more likely that they will...
"Today, it is actually hard as a pollster to write a question on immigration that is too harsh, or too cruel for evangelicals to support."
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) just released it’s 16th American Values Report surveying over 5,000 Americans on the most pressing social and political issues of our time. What was revealed was an asymmetric polarization between Republicans and Democrats, and white Christians and those who are not.
Robert P. Jones, president and founder of PRRI, joins Jen Rubin to break down the key findings of the report. Most significant is white Evangelicals continued retreat from the center to the more radical. But, because a majority of people don’t have these extreme ideologies, white nationalists can’t achieve their political ends through democratic means and must embrace authoritarian policies in order to achieve power.
As explained in an earlier PRRI report referenced by Dr. Jones in this interview:
Perhaps the most disturbing finding in the religious landscape is this one: A majority of white evangelical Protestants believe both that immigrants are invading the country and replacing real Americans (57%) and that the government should place immigrants into militarized internment camps until they can be deported (56%).
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