Allan Milne Lees
1 min readJul 5, 2022

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While I personally would love to imagine that Trump won't win a second opportunity to flush the USA down the toilet and complete the job, I can't be particularly sanguine. Neuroscience plus plenty of behavioral research indicates that when people lay down neural pathways, it's rare for those pathways to be over-written. This is particularly true for ignorant stupid people because their brains aren't accustomed to handling any measure of complexity. Religionists tend to be conservative in the widest sense of the word because their brains are capable only of dealing with very simplistic constructs. Complex reality is as far beyond their grasp as is calculus to a dead earthworm. So regardless of why evangelicals voted for Trump initially, those pathways are now firmly in place. They will simply imagine other reasons for their decision to vote for him again. The reasons need not make any sense - after all, the first set didn't - but as long as they providing soothing cover, that's all that is required. We can therefore predict that Catholics, evangelicals, and whatever other motley assortment of groups following various sub-branches of Christian mythology happen to exist, will vote overwhelmingly for their infantile cretinous orange god. Just like they did the last time, and the time before that. And the beauty of representative democracy is the belief that 74 million bigoted morons can't be wrong.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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