Why is it that many American Republican politicians come across to us Brits as total hucksters? Is it their sickly and pious assertions regarding their imaginary friends or perhaps it's their seeming obsession with guns, war, sex, fossil-fuel, flags and money? (or maybe they just are hucksters - Occam's razor etc.)
A particularly good example of this is Paul Ryan (among many). I'm sure if you look up the phrase "hypocrite" in the dictionary it refers you directly to Paul Ryan. Here we have him on Twitter weaselling his way around the fact that donations to his campaigns from the NRA (National Rifle Association) are the largest of any American politician. In his tweet he substitutes doing something about saving lives through gun control (as proven by every other country in the world that's done it) for praying, i.e. doing nothing at all but scoring points with the credulous.
One wonders how stupid people who support politicians like this can actually get; if prayer actually worked things like mass shootings wouldn't happen in the first place, would they.
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