I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.
"You don't call the doctor when you need your car fixed, or call the mechanic when you're sick. Why would you expect Trump, a non-believer who doesn't even understand the basis of Christianity and has never been a conservative, to make America either more Christian or more conservative?"
This was a question I asked, repeatedly, of conservatives and Evangelicals throughout 2015 and 2016 as Trump gradually overwhelmed the rest of the field of Republican candidates. Nobody ever really had much of an answer, or even tried to, honestly.
I started asking this question specifically after I saw the video in which Trump said he'd never asked God for forgiveness...which the Lincoln Project helpfully re-posted this morning on Twitter.
It stuck with me, that I never got much of an answer. Of course, I missed the fucking point in the first damn place. I'd have had a perfectly valid question...if any of this shit had ever been about Christianity or Conservatism in the first place, and it wasn't...ever. Not to These Fucking People, anyway. We've already seen how much they hate any legacy-conservative Republicans that they could direct their hatred at, like George H.W. Bush or John McCain.
I saw a Tweet the other night from some Trump Supporter, shared ironically by Bill Kristol that basically did nothing more than kick organized, legacy conservatism in the nuts for no reason, and in point of fact the Tweet he quoted was a link to an article that was nothing more than a pro-Trump anti-conservative partisan screed, simply based on the fact that the current president of the Heritage Foundation, herself an African American woman, expressed support for Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests. The article itself was a hell of a piece of work if you care to read it. It's nothing but Ad Hominem garbage aimed at everybody, but that's what These Fucking People do. Completely missing the point, of course, that it doesn't really matter who George Floyd was, or what the fuck he did or didn't do...nothing he was ever even accused of doing was a death-penalty crime AND don't we have courts and laws for that? I mean, I get that modern "Conservatives" basically are racist idiots. I get that think that anybody who attracts the attention of the cops or whoever else they see as "their" users of force is somehow guilty of something. But isn't this America, where people have rights to things like trial by a jury of their peers, and don't we have a Constitution and an entire legal system to determine things like innocence or guilt?
We're either a modern, Enlightenment-inspired civilization based on Democracy, Rule of Law, and the truth, or we're not. There's no middle of the road here. Our Constitution and legal system even as currently written functions under this assumption, that this is and always will be what we are. Consider for example last week's SCOTUS decisions, particularly that concerning LGBT workplace protections and the protection of DACA by the Court, as an example of this.On the other hand, over the last several years I've watched American Movement Conservatism throw away all this stuff, item by item, line by line, one bit of code after another until what is left is decidedly Post-Modern in much the same way as a work of modern "Art" by Andres Serrano or Robert Mapplethorpe would be. It's nothing more than a political version of the infamous photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of the artist's urine...exactly the same sort of bullshit that the conservatives of my childhood and teenage years would have been vehemently against. They have invented a Christless Christianity that's in search of a god...and then raised up a man who'd gladly take on the role. They've created the ultimate nonsensical "Secret society" simply by creating a giant conspiracy theory mashup and structuring a bullshit In-group around it. It doesn't matter what you are or what you stand for, you just have to hate "Liberals" as much as they do. "Liberal" or course being defined as "Anybody they see as being against them, or who isn't an outright Trump suck-up.
It's like having a President who routinely rails against flag-burning regardless of the 30-year-old Supreme Court decision on that subject, while constantly shredding every single value that flag stands for or ever did.
It doesn't matter what you are, you just have to be as lost as they are.
All they've got is somebody who says "Follow me." It doesn't matter that he's going off a cliff.
We, as a people, can either get this bullshit under control or it's going to kill us. These fucking people, these Fascists and Q-nuts, Racists and Trump Supporters...and of course several flavors of extreme Christian religious fanatics besides, would gladly burn down every element of Western Civilization all the way back to the fucking Dark Ages in their pursuit of some kind of religious or right-wing utopia where they never have to look at anything 'different' and the main purpose of government or the State, such as it was at the time, is protecting the Elite or the Nobility and fighting wars against whatever enemies are available.If you think they give a shit about modern society, or technology, besides whatever is required to produce the weapons needed to kill more people, think again. Given the rise of automated manufacturing, all they really need to do is try to hang onto the knowledge of how to make the things that make the things for a couple more generations...humans optional...and they'll figure out the rest when they get there.
If you don't think somebody like Bill Barr has visions of being some kind of American version of Rodrigo De Borgia and the kind of unaccountable power that such would entail, dancing in his head, you have another thing coming. If you don't think these racist monsters would gladly trade the life of every person of color, LGBT person or "White" person that disagreed with them...and the lives of millions of their own followers as well...for that kind of power, you haven't been paying attention.
And they've convinced literally millions of their people that the only thing worth living for is the idea that they might get to have their boot on someone else's throat before they die.
Appeasing these fucking people or hoping they'll go away after awhile isn't going to work. Bowing down sure as hell won't work, unless you'd rather be alive than free, and yeah, fighting them one way or another might be dangerous...but so is getting out of bed and going to work every day.
Civilization and freedom require a certain level of risk, our founders knew that. Being a citizen requires a certain amount of courage, intellectual curiosity and rational inquiry. That's literally why our system is structured the way it is.
Trump and his enablers and his racist mob are counting on people's apathy and cowardice, greed, materialism and willful ignorance to hide their own multitude of sins and keep the populace distracted until it's too late to do anything about it. It doesn't matter how many guns you've got to protect yourself if you're a slave to hateful ideologies and ignorance all so that some rich motherfucker can pick your pocket while you're screaming at anybody that's better educated or different or not from around here.
More to the point, a lot of these assholes know this. They just go along because they think eventually they'll be the rich guy picking the pockets instead of the rubes getting fleeced. They think they'll be the Lord in his castle and not the serfs in the fields.
And it doesn't work that way. Whoever that guy is, assume it's not going to be you.
We have a civilization here, and all the tools we need to right the ship, and at long last an active and engaged public. What the fuck do you think the conservatives, and the cops, and the Republicans are all suddenly so afraid of?
We The People, that's what. Remember that.
And people had to die to get us to wake up.
Why else do you think they'd rather burn it all down and have some kind of a stupid race war? And know that they'll try, just to keep the graft going somewhere, if they can't have the whole country.
Vote the bastards out, and then be ready for what comes next.
Because it will come.
If you don't think these fucking people would love to turn their bullshit Culture Wars into actual shooting wars you ain't paying attention. If you don't think their petty obsessions with basically nonexistent groups like "Antifa" and all the Q-Bullshit would just be used as excuses to kill people, you have another thing coming.
When I tell you it's going to come down to a fight, and we'll be dealing with people who don't know why they lose or even recognize or understand the 'old gods' of our modern society, fucking listen!
And there are millions of these fucking idiots who will Kamikaze themselves for these shitty beliefs, while the motherfuckers that brainwashed those people sit in some bunker somewhere, count their money and smugly congratulate themselves as their followers die from diseases and war and take millions of other people down with them. They don't care about civilization, they want to hurt people and make money off of it.
Hold fast, and don't back the fuck down.
They sure won't.
Part Two.
I wrote this in 2018, it still holds up.
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