Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 1932. Will that change in November?
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Dudes pro-choice and has a lot of progressive positions, and has for a long time...
Dissapoining that people won't look past he's religious.
It's fucking Kansas, and he's more progressive than any other option.
This close to midterms, we need to be suspicious of anyone who just reflexively comments about how Dems are just as bad as Republicans.
It's not being religious or being a pastor that makes me concerned.
It is the "megachurch" part. I have seen and respected decent churches and pastors. But "mega" churches I haven't seen being anything other than outright scammy.
But it is Kansas and even if it were just like a Republican except willing to stand up to Trump, then I would at least accept that as good enough from Kansas.
Good luck people of Kansas.
It doesn't matter where you preach, it matters what you preach....
And he has decades of sermons and podcasts online for anyone to check what his positions have been.
I know next to nothing about him, but from what I've seen politicians like him are going to be instrumental in passing a progressive platform thru Congress.
We need those seats, we need any seat that we can fill with someone who supports progressive policy.
I think people forget that geographically things can really vary wildly. Like if you ask someone their opinions on the right to own firearms in NYC, that same person is probably going to have a different opinion in Alaska where you are legally required to carry in some places because of the wildlife.
Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, etc. are not going to elect anyone close to a Bernie or an AOC in our lifetimes most likely. We cant let imperfection be the enemy of good enough sometimes
This guy is closer to Bernie and AOC than a lot of politicians from blue states...
And those spineless fucks need to be out of a job. He is closer to them, but he is not them and if he was he wouldn’t have any chance at all more than likely.
What are you even rambling about?
The idiots complaining he isn’t left wing enough. It’s fucking Kansas, find something valid to criticize him about. People are complaining he is a pastor and other smoothbrained takes
It’s interesting. Do we think those same people care that Mamdani and el-Sayed are Muslim? Because in those cases it’s obvious that a person being religious doesn’t mean they espouse the most conservative version of their religion. There are progressive Christian churches and even entire denominations, but we seem less willing to offer the benefit of the doubt to a Christian.
I can understand, though. In the US we’re far more familiar with the abuses and failings of the religion more familiar to us. We’re more likely to have entrenched opinions colored by years of exposure to the most regressive parts of the religion.
Because the hypocrites are the loudest...
I balked when I saw "megapastor" too, but dude seems legit. His experience leading a congregation of 25k every week is a huge advantage.
His public speaking is going to be unbeatable, and he's not just going to push progressive policy on Kansas, he's gonna do it while quoting actual scripture.
Everyone wants rightwing extremists to jump straight to enlightened atheism, ignoring the indisputable fact that some people really do need religion, so treating all of them the same just helps the extremist ones.
If somebody has to believe in God, and will vote how they think God wants them to, might as well give them the option of a god who actually wants to help people.
Especially when the candidate supports the voters wishers more than the last two presidential candidates.
Personally I'm willing to bite my tongue and give the benefits required to see if his actions match his words. If not I'll skip straight to proposing his sacrifice to my god and stripping the copper from his churches walls.
The answer is no. Nearly any time a headline asks a question, the answer is no.
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
Betteridge’s law of headlines
Oh, good, so it's already lost regardless of who wins. I mean still vote blue, but that's awful.
I agree that "megachurch pastor" is a flashing, bright-red flag, but his platform seems okay. Granted, they're just words, not actions.
(Original Christian Post article, since MSN rehosts tend to drop like flies within a few months.)