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.)
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.