“Baptists and Bootleggers” is an expression referring to how there are certain political issues that can make for unlikely political allies - for instance, Baptists and bootleggers both supported Prohibition, albeit for different reasons; Baptists because they opposed alcohol, bootleggers because it would boost the illegal-alcohol industry.
The example that comes to mind is how religious conservatives and feminists often both speak out against pornography; albeit for somewhat different reasons; conservatives think it’s immoral and feminists think it’s degrading to women.
Christians and some liberals/feminists sometimes speak out against Islam, albeit for different reasons.
In politics, the far-right and far-left sometimes sound oddly similar.
Anyone think of other examples?
I know a man who is quite liberal – maybe even leftist – on every issue you can name, but he is convinced the gummint is engaged in an all-encompassing plot to invade our personal privacy and keep files on us at every level.
He’d feel right at home on a compound in Montana – except for all the guns.
Leftists and fascists are often in agreement, for example their passion for controlling the economy. And when some leftists insist on everybody being politically correct, it can smack of fascism.
Also . . . Both Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders support increasing funding for NASA.
Christian End Times believers and Israel, cooperating to support Israel. The Christians do it since those particular Christians think that the existence of Israel is necessary to fulfill Biblical prophecy, and will result in the decimation of the Jews there when the Apocalypse starts. The Israelis go along with it because it benefits them; and of course they don’t buy into the prophecy of another religion, so they aren’t worried about it.
American Christian anti-abortionists and Islamic fundamentalists cooperating in their mutual war against abortion/women’s rights.
The KKK and black nationalists cooperating to promote racial segregation.
The original “Bootleggers & Baptists” combo is alive and well today in that police forces, private prison companies, and drug runners want to preserve the current punitive legal set-up.
For the cops it means large budgets and hero-standing-against-the-ever-rising-tide high social status. For the prison companies it means growth and profits. And for the drug runners it means high profits and no competition from Corporate America which would kick their inefficient asses eight ways to Sunday.
All the countries with nuclear weapons, while generally aiming those weapons at each other, share a collective interest in preventing new countries from developing nuclear weapons.
Most liberals see it as an issue of defending liberal values like freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and equal protection of the law rather than making excuses for radical Muslims. Some people feel that defending these rights in general includes defending these rights when individuals use them for bad causes.
The conservative equivalent would be defending the Second Amendment in the aftermath of a gun crime. Conservatives aren’t making excuses for murderers. They’re saying the value of the right to own firearms is high enough to justify the price of some people using guns in crimes.
Take a look at the dances currently going on to try and decide if Spain will manage to get a government or will have to have new elections.
A still-most-voted party (PP) which tried to game the system (the King rolled up the applicable laws and stuck them up President Rajoy’s ass), then three parties (PSOE, Ciudadanos and Podemos) of which no two are not enough to get all the votes necessary but of which Ciudadanos and Podemos refuse to talk to each other, then a bunch of little ones which will not talk to one or another of the first four. The possible alliances which have been shuffled around are pretty mind-boggling.
For extra points: in Navarre, the current government is formed by four parties which only agree in that the party with the most votes/representatives Must Not Rule. This party is actually moving more things through the local Parliament than in the previous three legislatures because, unlike when they’re in power, they’re not bothering negotiate after attempts are met with “up youse” and the other four can’t make up their collective minds long enough to vote against…
Bah! Baptists most definitely do not believe in “Clerical magic.” Anything resembling “magic,” is much too Pentecostal, and the “clerical” part smacks of Catholicism. (Priesthood of all believers, and all that.)