A serious question: Can America recover from this disastrous Trump regime?

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13. And religion.

So much of this is the "religious" right trying to force their beliefs on others. (And full disclosure, I am a Christian, but I am not one of the evangelical crazies.)

These people are insecure around anyone who might believe differently than they do, and they are emboldened by being around those who echo their hypocritical beliefs. So, they try to enlarge their circles either by forcing others to acquiesce and believe as they do, or by ostracizing them - which makes them feel powerful and yet again, emboldens their insecurities. Because if their safe little group won't let someone in, then that person who is expelled MUST have something wrong with them.

I was raised in that environment, but I have simply always been different. I believe that each person has to follow their own path to religion, away from religion, or whatever works for them. You cannot force someone to agree with you, and I have no need to do that. I came to terms with my own beliefs and principles long ago, and I'm comfortable with that.

I don't understand why these Christian nationalists can't allow others to do their own thing, and the only explanation that makes any sense to me at all is that they are truly, indeed, very insecure in what they believe. Ultimately, there will come a time when this is called out because to deny each person their own path is to deny real freedom.

Slow process, and it has always had some forward movement, with some backward movement, and then some forward movement again. I had hoped we had made more of a move forward than we obviously have, and I am saddened because it is this way. But sooner or later, wisdom and sanity will return because the survival of the human race is going to depend on it.