After decades of denial, or, at best, insistence that the movement would remain on the unthreatening fringe, Christian Nationalism is now generally recognized as an existential threat to democracy.
I agree, the GOP having collapsed into deeper extremism is more a path to power rather than articles of faith. They seeded Culture Wars from the early 1990s onward because 1) they know Wedge Issues work for single issue voting simpletons that need to be assured they are morally superior and just became obsessed with abortion propaganda to not have to think too hard about voting, 2) it is about maintaining white supremacy as a power structure (what is being conserved by "conservatives") from the reign of David Duke in the 1980s to attacks on equal rights efforts at this moment, and 3) Divide and Conquer works really well as people in distress engage in lateral violence and fight for their place at the bottom of society.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a bottomles pit of Dark Money was not enought to stop Obama from a first and then a second term. These tactics were not enough to bring around a Trump second term. Now faced with the likelihood of VP Harris being the next POTUS the GOP are going to throw everything at the wall to try and keep power through division, firehose the public with distractions, and hope Trump has some chance at winning the 2024 election.
White hetereosexual married women were the swing vote that put Trump into office to rig SCOTUS to carry out a planned agenda, load the appellate courts with radicals and/or bribed judges, and tear down Roe v Wade and more. Unpopular opinion: when enough white hetereosexual women suffer from the abortion suppression laws in place in their state -suffer or or die from these laws- then even the most rabid anti-abortion beliefs will be walked back by force of opposition. Death and suffering make people remember why we do not court fascism. The reminders why the separation of church and state is needed and why the science of medicine should not be forced by laws to be subordinated to political opinions is being written in blood. The maternal mortality rate rising suddenly in Texas alone is quite a lot of blood.
* I'm at the point where I make no separation of the GOP as a political entity and the larger problem of Christian Nationalism. They are practically synonyms now: the GOP is the legal and monetary arm of a weaponized apostate belief system for lack of a better way to decribe it.
Thank you Mr. Greaves. Today I learned the term "doctrinal sectarian divisions." Politics with Utopian goals in mind never end well. Utopian politics always involve a set of moral justifications to thinly veil their escalating abuses and atrocities.
There is no future and hope in this world I saw it in my two eyes.
I agree, the GOP having collapsed into deeper extremism is more a path to power rather than articles of faith. They seeded Culture Wars from the early 1990s onward because 1) they know Wedge Issues work for single issue voting simpletons that need to be assured they are morally superior and just became obsessed with abortion propaganda to not have to think too hard about voting, 2) it is about maintaining white supremacy as a power structure (what is being conserved by "conservatives") from the reign of David Duke in the 1980s to attacks on equal rights efforts at this moment, and 3) Divide and Conquer works really well as people in distress engage in lateral violence and fight for their place at the bottom of society.
Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a bottomles pit of Dark Money was not enought to stop Obama from a first and then a second term. These tactics were not enough to bring around a Trump second term. Now faced with the likelihood of VP Harris being the next POTUS the GOP are going to throw everything at the wall to try and keep power through division, firehose the public with distractions, and hope Trump has some chance at winning the 2024 election.
White hetereosexual married women were the swing vote that put Trump into office to rig SCOTUS to carry out a planned agenda, load the appellate courts with radicals and/or bribed judges, and tear down Roe v Wade and more. Unpopular opinion: when enough white hetereosexual women suffer from the abortion suppression laws in place in their state -suffer or or die from these laws- then even the most rabid anti-abortion beliefs will be walked back by force of opposition. Death and suffering make people remember why we do not court fascism. The reminders why the separation of church and state is needed and why the science of medicine should not be forced by laws to be subordinated to political opinions is being written in blood. The maternal mortality rate rising suddenly in Texas alone is quite a lot of blood.
* I'm at the point where I make no separation of the GOP as a political entity and the larger problem of Christian Nationalism. They are practically synonyms now: the GOP is the legal and monetary arm of a weaponized apostate belief system for lack of a better way to decribe it.
Please consider my newest essay: "Jesus-ween: This Halloween your blood will be shed for Him" or "He comes for a second time.”
https://candicec.substack.com/p/jesus-ween-this-halloween-your-blood
Thank you Mr. Greaves. Today I learned the term "doctrinal sectarian divisions." Politics with Utopian goals in mind never end well. Utopian politics always involve a set of moral justifications to thinly veil their escalating abuses and atrocities.