Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) Cuts To The Quick: Trump Followers Are Fundamentally Unhappy Because They Harbor Core Beliefs That Are False. (And Although Of Less Importance, They Are Then Desperate To Fault Anyone But Themselves)

Charlie Kirk's cruel, death-peddling proclamation squares perfectly with the punitive mindset of Trump-followers whom "Archie Bunker" accurately describes in the following Dick Cavett interview  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4gjse35C8

Alan: If we are actually "living right" - if we actually follow "the Way, the Truth and the Life" -- if we love indiscriminately, NOT making any prior judgment about whom deserves to be loved  --  we will live without the paralyzing fear of post-mortem judgment, casting us into The Lake of Unquenchable Fire worlds without end - FOREVER and EVER and EVER and EVER and EVER...!

Why does living according to "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" free us from fear of eternal punishment, a fundamental -- if not THE fundamental -- anxiety of Christian Nationalists, and other "Christian" "conservatives"? 

When we actually follow "the Way, the Truth and the Life," we are then living in such a way that "virtue is its own reward," and it becomes self-evident that we will not be punished. 

By the way... "vice is its own punishment." 

I remember a black man noting on NPR that "We are nor punished for our sins. Rather, we are punished by them." I am awe-struck at the spot-on incisiveness of this insight.

Notably, Trump and his followers are not happy people. 

In the following interview with Dick Cavett, Archie Bunker describes - with keen precision -  why they are not happy

In brief, we humans grow unhappy, and fearful of post-mortem judgment, when we live our lives wrongly. 

Archie Bunker cuts to the quick of Trumpism, revealing Trump-followers as fundamentally unhappy people.

And they are unhappy because they hold shoddy, fallacious beliefs - quite likely through "no" fault of their own. 

In any event, the heart of Archie's revelation begins at the 2:09 mark of the following video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4gjse35C8

Short form of Rev. James Talarico's Sermon Against Christian Nationalism

https://x.com/Alex_Verbeek/status/1820775522307056100

Long Form of Rev. Talarico's Sermon Against Christian Nationalism As A Betrayal Of Jesus of Nazareth

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2025/08/james-talaricos-sermon-against.html

Compendium: Christian Conservatism, Biblical Literalism And The Unique Hatred Of Yahweh's Command That ALL Men In Any Town Where Rebellious Children Live, MUST Stone Them To Death

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2024/02/compendium-christian-conservatism.html

Compendium of Charlie Kirk Posts

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2025/09/compendium-of-my-best-charlie-kirk-posts.html