To the neon god they made...
~Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence.
Religion.
Traditional Values.
Whose religion? What traditional values?
These are important questions, that I see too few people asking. These fucking people speak in vague generalities to obscure very specific things. They do that, for a damn reason...because if they ever openly said what they wanted to do, they'd likely find themselves hanged from a traffic sign by an angry mob. When he says "Religion" he means "A certain kind of Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christianity that would regard Jesus as far too liberal" and when he says "Tradition" he means White Hetero Patriarchy. But even he can't say that and he knows he can't say that because half of his own people would walk out and the women in the audience would give him a second circumcision.
So he's reduced to spouting off with this kind of stupid pablum and blaming other people for problems that Christians and "Conservatives" have caused for themselves, often with malice aforethought and for the very worst of reasons.
And that, too, has got to grate on his nerves. No wonder these fucking people are so angry.
I rather suspect that if you brought together all the super hard-core Dominionist Christians in the United States of America...and that's where these kind of talking points originate...you could probably hold the convention in a conference room at the Amway Grand hotel in Grand Rapids, MI.
Just don't tell the organizers that pornography is available in the movie selections. In any case, they'll probably figure that out soon enough on their own. I'm serious. I have a lot of experience with various flavors of Christian religious fanatics of various sorts and they are some of the dirtiest-minded, most corrupt people imaginable.
It's almost cartoon level ridiculous. I'm serious when I say that a former partner of mine seems to really believe that God is going to literally give her truckloads of money as a prelude to her special role in the End Times...all she thinks she has to do is believe in it hard enough.
And then there's people like Barr, who seem to think that the nation and the world need to be "perfected" in order for Jesus to return. This flies in the face of the longstanding belief not only in Christianity, but in the Platonic Greek philosophy that underpins it...that things of this world are by nature not able to be perfected.
(And then these motherfuckers support an anti-Christian bullshitter like Trump?! Do they think this God of theirs is stupid?)
Additionally, there's the troubling fact that according to some research I've been doing lately (which included talking to actual religious nuts including my former partner) these fucking people appear to have entirely dispensed with the Rapture as a doctrine.
Don't get me wrong, it's a false doctrine, horse shit, something that was conjured and just made up, second cousin to Harvey the Rabbit. It literally does not exist.
But...
Without an out like the Rapture, what the hell do these people have any hope for? Starve to death while fighting some kind of holy war against the "Anti-Christ" in some kind of supernatural post Apocalyptic wasteland? Die of thirst when all the water turns to blood? What's even the actual draw, here? Is it really that much fun to try to make the Constitution and our founding fathers seem to have said things they didn't say? Especially when they're all on public record saying the opposite?
This is the best they can do? No wonder Republicans seem so desperate lately...
*Especially* when these motherfuckers gotta know all they got is Trump.
It's a cult, yes, but it's not even a very good one. It's effectively the constitutional equivalent of two idiots arguing Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K while mopping floors at work.
Yeah, sure, Okay. It would be badass for Republicans (and maybe some other people too) if any of the stuff Trump said he was gonna do was actually real as opposed to a lie to get elected. I suppose it would be cool for them if Trump believed in Jesus and got up there behind the pulpit and preached a sermon from the Book of Acts with fire and passion without notes.
But something like that is never going to happen, and it's sad to see these fucking people try to convince themselves that it will. It's simply not in Trump's nature. To explain Trump in Evangelical idiom, the Self is on the throne, not God.
The simple reality is that Trump is hurting Christianity and conservatism, not advancing them. They're not even his causes, just things he leeched onto to get power. But like a leech, once he's sucked all the lifeblood out he's going to drop off, fat and happy, until something else comes along.
And the worst part of this, for me, is that there are Christians, "Conservatives" and Republicans out there who talk about Trump like he is Jesus Christ. In the end they're not going to get anything out of this but run out of power by an angry populace in a greatly diminished nation. The betrayal of the Kurds has made the military and a lot of the population angry, and has exposed a majority of Congressional R's for the shitty cowards that they are.
As the Middle East burns, again, this latest mistake seems to have overshadowed the Impeachment inquiry...though it will soon become part of it, if it has not already.
None of this puts conservatives or Republicans in a good spot long-term.
Oh sure, they might be able to break off a piece for themselves and found their own little Third World Absurdistan in a couple of Deep South states...but that would just make them openly dependent on the Russians, who'd probably also have to protect them. Long damned supply line from Murmansk to Mobile, just sayin' there, Comrades.
And even if you figure that splitting the country the Reds will get themselves part of the US Navy...well, just one Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer has more firepower than many of the world's entire modern navies. And no, aside from Mayport in Jacksonville there aren't many Navy bases in Red areas of Red states. Good luck, Cletus and Ivan. You're going to need it. I'd strongly suggest that even if you manage to reduce the United States by the 25% of people that voted for Trump and get Putin an East Bloc style satellite state in Alabama and Mississippi...you'd better pack a lunch.
Unless the United States of America dies of disinterest by its own citizens, we're eventually going to get Republicans out of power and we're going to win. I tend to think it won't be easy, but we will. We have to if we want to survive.
Apparently, it's from an Indiana newspaper.
That matters.
That's hope.
I'm just saying, Republicans, people are starting to wake up and see you for what you are. It's happening slowly, but the election isn't until next November. I think we'll get enough by then.
Until then, you've got over a year yet to continue to align yourselves with ideologies so shitty that you can't even speak about them or what they entail in public, and to get caught doing so.
You have fun with that.
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