Imagine having a concerted on-going campaign to get more people driving and then being shocked when the roads are congested. These people, honestly, are silly.
If you think the essence of a 2,000-year-old religion that started in the ancient Near East can be distilled down to which 21st-century American political party one votes for, your opinion on pretty much anything can be summarily discarded.
I'm in Chile right now and just experienced the biggest earthquake I've ever been in, but apparently it's not actually an earthquake, it's just a tremor, because it happens all the time.