From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than thirty years to establish their legitimacy. But none — not one regime — has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root....If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly....Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. ~Ronald Reagan...
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel against reactionaries. ~Mao Zedong
I just saw this a little while ago.
North Carolina Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson telling the "Moms For Liberty" that "Conservatives" need to read Hitler, Mao, and Stalin. Motherfucker said this addressing the "Moms For Liberty" AKA The Minivan Taliban.
This appears to be for ideological purposes and motivating fanaticism, rather than the old 1980's conservative idea of simply studying for counterinsurgency purposes or to learn tactics.
Now I'm a tell you something; Back in the 1980's I was a kid in Christian schools. My family was moderately conservative. If I would have said to read Hitler, Mao or Stalin, my ass would have got beat. My Mom probably would have got a call, during which the phrase "Whup his butt again" would have come up. I'd have got a nasty note sent home (possibly in the mail so I wouldn't be able to "forget" to give it to my Mom) and all things considered, the consequences would've been hell.
If I have to explain this, you won't understand it.
But that's the space I come from.
There was no tolerance for this kind of bullshit, period.
I'm just going to guess that they can't find anybody in their normal pool of justifications that hates America enough for them these days, and when they outright say they're going for people like Hitler, Mao and Stalin...they're really telling on themselves.
What these people have really turned into is something that's very Anti-American, Anti-conservative and Anti-Christian...because those beliefs weren't hateful
enough for them and they had to lie about it to make America look like a "Christian" nation. A lie that nobody outside of their normal sheep herd ever actually
believed. Plus, eventually they figured out they couldn't twist Christianity
enough to make it do what they wanted and conservatism only bent so far before it just
snapped.
And then, along came Trump, who was unmoored from any previous creed or political dogma, and also from reality.
He gave them something else to stand for, legitimized their hate and provided somebody else to worship: Himself.
Republicans couldn't get enough of it!
Hell, some of them still want more, and I can't even imagine why.
Everything Trump Touches Dies, as Rick Wilson famously said. I'm 100% serious, everything Trump touches turns to crap. What doesn't turn to crap
because of Trump is stolen
by Trump and motherfucking Republicans
still can't quit him.
More to the point...they probably could but they just don't want to.
So now they're losing, Trump faces the very real possibility of going to prison and these fuckers can't go five minutes without popping off about starting a civil war as a result. Hey, Republicans, when you've got this much shit going wrong, the problem is you.
And they know it, and they're veering off into Communism, Fascism, and generally radicalized Extremism and a lust for simply killing anybody who they think is against them because civilization, democracy, and reality are too hard.
Because they really
don't care if their form of government is "Post-Apocalyptic tribal chiefdom with extra Cannibalism in a nuclear wasteland, Unga Bunga!" so long as Trump is the "Chief."
These fucking people don't want to live in America. They don't care about or want America's expanding tradition of liberty, they don't want to live in a place where it doesn't matter who your father is, or where you really can succeed on your own merits.
They want control and domination and fuck fuck political games, where you have to have the right patron or political leader or be of the right tribe to do anything, they want to live where most people have to basically spend all their time trying to keep track of what the rules even are...in the hope that they will somehow be exempt from said rules.
And the longer this shit goes on, or is tolerated, the more childish and dangerous and stupid it's going to get.
Some of these fucking people seem to think they want to live in some kind of fantasy world where All Is Trump. And the sycophancy borders on blasphemous disrespect of everything that's ever gone before.
It's a cult, and it's becoming completely unmoored from anything but being a Cult Of Trump.
And they think they can somehow work Trumpism into being a cult of a
reactionary Mao Zedong.
Then they'll try to spin "Culture War" into a bloody, state-backed "Cultural Revolution."
Think about that for a second.
And they can't even be bothered to learn how badly the real one worked out.
We continue to tolerate this horseshit at our peril.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.
If you want to go to hell, become a cultist.
In 2015 when Trump started talking about his Wall, I said "Republicans are basically Communists now" referring to East Germany. Seems like "Conservatives" are hell-bent on going that way.
When you see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the holy place, get the fuck out.
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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for Ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
~Matthew 25:1-13
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
~Ronald Reagan
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