Thoughts on Vivek Ramaswamy?

@ABCDEF7 Well, considering that Ramaswamy is Hindu, and considering that his beliefs are extremely complex...instead of trying to become a student of his beliefs, I think it is enough that I accept him and whatever beliefs he has.

@4meAndyou Hahaha.. But it sure his believes are not against any others' believes. Right way to conclude 👍

@ABCDEF7 🤣🤣🤣

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Best answer!

@BohemianBabe Biden is Catholic though so there's definitely more tolerance.

@BohemianBabe I'm surprised the evangelicals haven't been preaching about Biden allowing the pope to dictate policy. (He doesn't)

@Crazywaterspring Well they can't yet because they still need the Catholic vote. After Project 2025, things will be different. I'm guessing after they finish off the traditional "enemies," they'll start suppressing all religions outside of Protestantism.

@SomeMichGuy He is also a critic of environmental, social, and corporate governance initiatives (ESG). In January 2024, Forbes estimated Ramaswamy's net worth at more than $960 million; his wealth comes from biotech and financial businesses.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

@independentone Racist much?

@NativePortlander1970 butt hurt much?

@independentone yet Indians in America have an average salary of £150k more than double the national average..... is this jealousy or pure racism?

@BohemianBabe Neo-Nazis hate Catholics, and his wife is brown. Vance lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. There are no fascist there except a few skin head outcasts. Vance is a prime target for Neo-Nazis.

And a Paleo-Cpmservative, in the original meaning before the wiki for it was hijacked by the left a few years back, was someone who embraced the ideals of the founding fathers, usually the Federalist or Anti-Federalist Paper Debates. I myself usually went under a John Adams Independent if specifically asked.

Then Paleo-Conservative was later taken from it's 18th and early 19th century roots and remade into conservatives of the first half of the 20th century, which made little sense to me because we had a couple of presidents who was both a Progressive AND a Conservative. They don't teach that fact anymore in school, that fkr a brief time the two groups were unified.

But by the time the leftists hujacked paleo-conservatives to mean Nazis and anything racist, which it most certainly was not originally, most of the original users, myself included, just gave up on it. It's very much a imaginary boogeyman creation of the left at this point with no bearings on anything anyone actually follows.

Cincinnati, Ohio is a catholic town. It's ran intellectually by catholics. It's also a liberal sanctuary city. Many traditional catholics lean left. It turns republican about 20 minutes outside the city when you hit the big billboard on the way to Columbus, Ohio with the 10 commandments on it.

That's right. Your trad-caths are liberals like you. They are not nazis. They voted for Biden.

@Motzu you are so right. My experience is that Catholic parishes lean left at a 2 to 1 ration. The emphasis is on love, forgiveness and tolerance. I lived in Columbus for a few years, what seems like a thousand years ago. As I recall one homely, the priest quoted from Simon and Garfunkel lyrics, another was about not allowing self righteousness to overwhelm compassion.