Trump won this little chunk of Los Angeles, where half of voters are linked to Scientology
Trump won this little chunk of Los Angeles, where half of voters are linked to Scientologyhttp://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pol-scientology-trump-hollywood-20170119-story.html
by Jon Schleuss, Alene Tchekmedyian and Kim ChristensenContact Reporters at the LA Times
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It surprised no one last fall when Los Angeles and California at large overwhelmingly backed Hillary Clinton in her failed bid for the presidency. Just seven of the city’s 1,700 precincts went for Donald Trump.
But while nearly all of the surrounding region voted for the Democratic former secretary of state, one little chunk of Hollywood best known for the Church of Scientology’s “Big Blue” complex went red, picking the Republican billionaire instead.
The precinct, wedged between Hollywood Boulevard and Fountain Avenue, tipped to Trump by just three votes, 347 to 344. It marked the first time since at least 2000 that the area went Republican. In 2012, President Barack Obama defeated Gov. Mitt Romney by 81 votes, 316 to 235.
“I honestly can’t begin to fathom how or why that happened,” said Erin Lee, a precinct voter and one of several Clinton supporters who said they were shocked to learn that Trump had carried their neighborhood.
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Be they fundies, scientologists, prosperity gospel followers, you name it. They'll follow the far right repukes off a cliff before they'll vote Democratic.
We now have our root cause of the downfall of America: the Religious Far Right. I'm in favor of out 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion, but the religious far right abused the privilege. No right is absolute, not even freedom of religion, especially religions that rip off and/or enslave their followers and teach hatred of one's neighbor. Those money-making operations masquerading as churches ought to be shut down, the leaders brought to justice or at least taxed, and the followers offered exit counseling or deprogramming so they can regain their free will.
Those false religions must be neutered like the out-of-control animals they really are--BTW, they make better pets that way. 
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