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In reply to the discussion: Used to be a time when we'd catch this guy with a butterfly net and shoot him full of Thorazine... [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)He wasn't that direct, but what does it do to someone when you take everything they have and leave them nothing, giving it all to only the true believers? That is what his father and his church proclaim, expecting to get the spoils from those killed by this depravity.
Cruz and his ilk want to get rid of government, create catastrophic poverty and cleanse the land for the alleged righteous ones of their version of god.
Cruz was educated at an ivy league school, 'anointed' at his megachurch and always been worshipped by them and his followers. It doesn't matter what he does, it's all where he was put in life.
Unfortunately, that is the view of many political groups now, Libertarians to the old patrician GOP and some of the Tea Party. And there is noreasoning with them, because if you don't agree, you are their enemy.