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1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

35K registered voters in the county, so basically nobody cared about this election - or Dems didn't care marginally less than Repubs.

Well only .007% of the registered voters voted for republicans in the primary. I know you want to dismiss this because of turnout, but that is a massive swing and those republicans are no guarantee to just show up on Election Day. 

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This is stupidly ignorant, broad and definitionally wrong. Pluralism is not the issue. But liberal rhetoric about 'multi-culturalism' can be just as vapid even if it is an attempt to be less bigoted. All cultures are not equivalent. A culture is not just a set of anthropological observations, it is also set of moral and value judgements, which means that not all cultures are compatible. Since we are in the middle of fight with Iran we can use that example. The aspect of Islamic culture underpinning the Iranian revolution holds that ultimate political authority must be ceded to religious authority. That is a cultural value that is incompatible with US Constitutional order. It just is, you can't square that circle. If a Muslim from that part of Islam wants to fully join American culture that is a value, a piece of the culture he left, that he either didn't care about to begin with or must leave behind to embrace citizenship in the US. But that is not an issue for Muslims in general because Islam is broader than any of the many cultures that exist within it.

And FTM, the fact that they may already be citizens by birth doesn't change the fact the some on the American Christian right are acting just as subversively and incompatibly with their citizenship in the Constitutional order.

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