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My local church puts out big signs in front telling you what to vote for. Regularly see cops attend that church. No one cares
The police don't enforce tax regulations. The IRS has its own people for that.
Would you expect an IRS auditor to pull someone over for speeding? Of course not, that's ridiculous.
I don't even expect my local PD to pull anyone over for speeding. They don't do shit.
Unless they're Black drivers who don't even have to be speeding.
Except the last 3 days of the month
I got pulled over for it once by local PD
I don't expect an IRS auditor will put their career on the line to tax a church, either. That's a third rail for a government employee. And imagine how loudly the Republicans will squawk.
I mean, it worked so well for Cervantes.
All these church regular attendees are constantly being told what to do with their lives. "No abortion, no lgbt", etc. I would say, even if they were not told who to vote for explicitly, they are still being told who to vote for implicitly.
(Not saying what they doing is right, just saying how this whole religion thing works)
Yep. That's 100% the bigger issue. The church may or may not officially say to vote for a specific person or party, but they sure as shit will manipulate their entire group to think and vote a certain way.
And even more insidious is most of the people will deny they are being manipulated. They will insist that they decide how to vote all by themselves. It's just years of indoctrination and manipulation to the point most of them don't even realize they are being controlled and used.
And maybe some truly believe it all too, but most have doubts and realize it's messed up, but have been gaslit into thinking it's THEIR shortcomings or flaws or human nature to blame. Not the organization, them personally.
And here we are millennia later still arguing with grifters and con artists so good at the grift they believe it works.
That's why religion still exists. When it's still gaining momentum, it's a threat to existing powers until they can get control of the religion, then they push it on everyone they can because when you can control the religion, you can control massive populations with little threat of rebellion. See: "holy" Roman empire, Church of England