re: Lets Talk Politics

I'm definitely running in to similar issues myself. Most of my friend base growing up came from church or school. I stopped believing pretty early in life (I always thought going to church was just a bunch of people making meaningless sound waves for an hour), but it was important socially. Now that I'm a 20-something, I don't have an easy place to fall back on to meet people outside of work. The best I can do is sport clubs and profession-specific meetups. Unfortunately, the sports leagues don't foster much friendship, and nothing is more asocial and uninteresting than a bunch of software developers discussing why React and ES6 are awesome for modern single-page applications. It's anecdotal, but I agree, I think the church is no longer the fundamental part for a majority of our society, and it never will be ever again. Appealing to that segment as your main focus is probably a terrible political strategy from now on.