Mormons never bothered me, but one thing I had noticed was they are very insular and always prefer Mormon politicians over non-Mormons. Hence why we can't get rid of people like Romney. At least that was my image - but the other day I was listening to a gaming stream from Razorfist where he read a superchat on the topic of insufferable Mormon politicians, and he said that in his experience Mormons are instinctively RINOs. (let's pretend that means "someone not a true right-winger") He pointed to an example of a local Arizona politician Russell Pierce who WAS a Mormon, but his own church helped kick him out of office because he wanted immigration and election reform with the Protect Arizona Now initiative and SB1070. Apparently illegal immigrants are a source of new Mormon blood?
Here is the exact timestamp of the comment. (2:49:51)
What do you guys think? Was that a one-off or is there something about modern Mormonism that makes their "conservatives" non-conservative establishment cucks?
(Obviously I mean as a group i.e. The LDS Church. Individuals can be based.)
LDS is wacky enough that anyone ambitious enough to shoot for political office is probably a two faced liar.
Either you blindly accept or refuse to analyze the religion, or you understand what it is and leverage it. Group 2 is your politicians, and I suspect most are not good people.
Group 1 is the harmless group.
I can't imagine how anyone in Group 1 can possibly contain anyone with an IQ over 90, but logically it must.
I've always thought most of these people must know the official canon of their religion is poorly fabricated bullshit, but see enough benefits in the in the community and way of life to repeat the lie with a smile.
For sure, obedient women you can collect like pokemon cards and nut inside frequently is something worth lying for.
100 IQ is average. Imagine 1000 people in a gym and think about how dumb half of them are. It’s not particularly hard to ignore things that don’t make sense and go to a cookout.
And a lot of Mormons are both preppers and willing to share. In the case of an apocalypse, converting isn’t the worst idea.
A lot of "smart" people follow socialism, leftist ideals with no basis in reality, COVID19 mandates and the latest CurrentYear activist trends as if they are a matter of life or death (until the next year when they forget about the last thing and get excited for next thing), so we know faith isn't correlated with intelligence. The only thing different between now and 200 years ago is widespread teaching of naturalism and evolution, which removed the mystery that drew some people to spirituality, but humans haven't changed.