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This sounds more fan-boyish then fact. They will have problems with Latino who are much less afraid of being called racist then American whites. The god talk was geared to liberal whites. Christian poc are not afraid like whites to hold conservative beliefs. Yes, there are a few, but much more are against white liberal god views. So future religion battles won't be with whites. It's not really that way now. Just a preoccupation. It will be against poc who are not as ashamed as whites. It was a very white and female attention getting use of god. But in the end this will not matter. And I do not understand the jokes and music entertainment choices. No poc unless been through phd will lie that it was good. So I do not think we watched the same thing. Biden could win but not because of god talk or convention. Such use only to make his already voters feel moral and good. Others won't see it that way but might vote for him anyway. So maybe biden wins, but trump will see increase in vote among poc especially hispanic and black mens. Biden might get increased white vote. I am concerned about the wars and Wall Street and fear biden will see us in beds with them

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Thanks for the heads-up about Katherine Stewart's new book; I had missed it. I talked with her at length in 2015 or 2016 about a lot of these things those of us who have lived on the inside know more about and maybe once took as normal and fine.

I was not heartened by the Democratic convention, which seemed desperate to reorient the party as the Republicans of '00-'04, home to warhawks, neocons, and evangelicals. They're resisting change on climate policies too as usual and will continue on as toadies of the super-rich.

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