How do atheists/agnostics split along political lines in the USA?

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18. The human facility for self-deception is often in play, I think

I, of course, am not immune to that tendency myself, but neither am I alone in that. There has never been any shortage of people willing to overlook all the evidence against their interpretation of events

I noticed this in the Nixon era when, even after the matter was resolved, many people seemed unable to accept that Nixon really WAS a liar willing to engage in all manner of criminal activity to win. And the end of the Vietnam war spawned a stabbed-in-the-back mythology in the US quite analogous to the stabbed-in-the-back mythology of Weimar many decades earlier, driven in both cases by human inability to face facts

It is unlikely that atheists in America form a monolithic political block. But it is also unlikely that the political views of atheists necessarily reflect the actual dangers presented to church-state separation doctrine, by the current crop of Republicans. People often vote against their interests in some ways, sometimes because they are confused, other times because they to balance conflicting issues. So, although I personally agree with you -- that one need only listen to Republicans to know one ought not vote for them -- I don't expect other people to behave in ways that I would find consistent