Smart money remains silent once arguments involving politics or religion comes up. Hasn’t anyone ever been to a family cookout before?
It COULD be that the haters (the real ones) gave Walmart a call and said, we will beat you from pillar to post in the media and treat you as haters, if you DON’T do this.
It really is that bad today, and from what I know of spiritual battles, any secular entity, whose only anchor is the manner of the world, can get pushed over in nothing flat. The demoralization of the Weimar era is part of what made it so easy for Germany to fall for the Nazi push, and this is a rough analog to today.
There is a way out of this but it requires “remoralization.”