Actually, I do pay attention to such claims. But these claims do not make anyone an atheist/Marxist unless you change the definitions. At best these claims are only partial truths, at worst they are outright lies and distortions designed to scare the populace. Unchecked Capitalism is anti-Christian, many of these choices are designed to limit capitalism. Unchecked Socialism is likewise anti-Christian. There is no Christian government possible, as there is political party that is Christian in orientation, just ones that attempt to wrap themselves in Christian coverings as they act on sinful, anti-Christian principles. Look at the candidates as individuals, evaluate them on their behavior, including their willingness to uphold and defend the Constitution and fight corruption, and then make a choice on individual candidates without regards to political party.
The message of Christianity is love for the neighbor, not the fellow citizen of your preferred nation and definitely not for some human created entity called a corporation. Capitalism is not a Christian virtue, it is a human created game to reward certain humans over others based on human values, not God's. In God's eyes all humans are equally worthy of good things, no differences based on education, race, gender identity or family background. National boundaries are the result of humans claiming, "this is mine/ours, not God's". Laws are necessary in our sinful world, but the laws should apply equally to all, not preference given to some over others, that is just entrenching sin within the system.
And I would note, my extended family includes politically connected individuals within both major parties. Cousins on one side have gotten invitations to invitation only events with only 4 people per state receiving invitations to a free event that the President will be at. Cousins on the other side have had future/past presidents at their home for private holiday parties. Which side to I tend to agree with politically? For a few decades I have known who to can get me in direct contact with the President with only Trump being the exception, so who was the first president that I had such access available to? For which party was I a delegate for a state-level convention in which it was openly admitted that the party would lie to protect their reputation (both parties have done so)?
When you can answer all these questions you may accuse me of political ignorance.
What you fail to acknowledge is that the USA has checks and balances that the Marxist/DSA Dems want to end.
The only individual Dem I might consider voting for is Fetterman.
Communism is the epitome of entrenching evil within the system.
We are not living in the past; you and your relatives need to update your understanding of the current political situation:
we are one election away from becoming controlled by the communists, and if your family supports that--
then a pox on your house!
How We Got Here: A Summary
After declaring independence from England in 1776, winning it in the Revolutionary War and defending it in the War of 1812, slavery caused the Civil War in 1860 and then struggles for equality and the right for all citizens to vote threatened our unity. In the 1900s, dictators attacked freedom, provoking World War I in 1914, WWII in 1940 and the Korean War in 1950. Then the high cost and eventual loss of both the Vietnam War in 1973 and the War on Islamic Terrorists from 9-11-91 until 2019 divided and damaged our country. Today (2022) our nation that began as a republic established by the U.S. Constitution appears to be in danger of becoming an authoritarian socialist state.
Again, the threat is that our disunity will end in Communism, which governs most of the world and almost every aspect of our society–education, entertainment, news, social media, banking and monopolistic businesses–corrupting politicians and elections. The main cause of this corruption is that following WWII America allowed subversive educators to infiltrate universities, including Herbert Marcuse and Marxist Saul Alinsky, whose book “Rules for Radicals” was dedicated to Satan and whose rules included deception and violence (the end justifies the means).
The teachings of such radical professors has influenced many college students (including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama) to favor socialist policies. (See “The War for America’s Soul” by Gorka, p. 59-65.) Many Americans are oblivious to the slow disintegration of the Constitutional consensus, because the owners of most news media were similarly educated and sympathetic.
A main financier of the socialist movement was George Soros, who became a billionaire, established a network called the Open Society Foundation to promote a global government, and since 2003 financed numerous socialist groups in the U.S. (See “The Shadow Party” by Horowitz & Poe, p. 78-95 & 177-82.)
Other leaders of the globalist cabal or “new world order” are members of the World Economic Forum, which meets annually in Davos, Switzerland. They envision a technological revolution that transforms the world (including America), converting humans who freely worship God into drones coerced by a fascist-communist state as in China. (See “The Great Reset” by A. Jones, p. 4-7, 28 & 95.)
The globalists began to conspire with communist China (the CCP) in 1978, when the Trilateral Commission befriended Chinese leaders and sought a New International Economic Order. Since then the CCP has pursued a clever strategy that has steadily weakened the U.S. as China gained power, currently on display as its military buildup, the COVID-19 pandemic, aggression against Taiwan and the “One Road One Belt” policy. It aims to surpass the U.S. and dominate Eurasia by the year 2049. (See “Reset”, p. 40-44 & “War”, p. 136.)
Finally the authoritative Biden administration weakened the U.S. and attempted to banish conservative Constitutionalist opposition. Much of the news media failed to report this truth, so that many people remained ignorant of the dissolution of the American dream of liberty for all (like frogs being boiled alive because the water temperature is raised slowly).
Recently, Trump and MAGA folks are trying to avert disaster, but the Democrats are mainly Marxists, so we are only one election and generation away from a communist coup. Will elections promote or delay our demise?