I know people who were considering a vote for Jill Stein until they found out she’s an anti-vaxxer who is into all kinds of wild conspiracy theories (but still dismisses Russia’s well-documented election interference as a bunch of unsupported nonsense).
If you’re ok with a candidate who regularly talks to God, and thinks that those conversations are sufficient justification for a government policy, I don’t see why you shouldn’t be ok with aliens, too. If anything’s surprising about this it’s the consistency.
Eh, I wouldn’t single or the GOP for this. I remember the Congressional elections in California had some pretty insane candidates on the Democratic side too. It was disheartening…
Exactly! Not only that, we are supposed to grant extra credibility to the candidate who expresses that he or she communicates silently with an invisible being. That notion actually is considered to be a major qualifying aspect of the candidacy. It boggles my mind.
That’s a good point I’ll bear in mind going forward. The loon comment was a sarcastic dig at her politics, not her abduction claims.
My only problem with that is that the government would then have to be the arbiter of delusion, and that’s not something I trust politicians to define.
It’s one thing to talk to God and another to say God talked to you. I once wrote to Santa and Rudolph as a small child. Neither had the courtesy or existence to reply.
I’d rather have someone who talks to aliens than someone who believes that trickle down economics works. At least one of these things is scientifically plausible.
“I went in. Brave. There were some round seats that were there, they were the best round seats, like you wouldn’t imagine, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship, huge crystals – not like fake airplanes. Sad.”