Idolaters (Left Behind Is A Lie III, Six.)

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. ~Matthew 26:26-32

I saw this earlier.

Somebody did a thread on what an America run by the current GOP would look like.

So I decided to follow along, because while Brynn here isn't wrong, I think there's a bit more going on here.

It's not just that Red States are awash in guns and have lots of shootings, including shootings of innocent people who were just minding their own damn business in one way or another, doing normal things (like that kid that got shot by some old guy in Kansas City the other day.) It's not just that these motherfuckers want to have guns...which they seem to view not as tools or weapons but as some kind of totem of "Christian" masculinity and/or as toys depending on the day. 

It's that these "Conservative" "Christian" Republicans seem to revere causing unnecessary death for its own sake.

Because of the Republican Jihad against abortion...and now against birth control and proper prenatal care as well as knowledge, medicine and science in general...doctors are leaving some of these Red States (or at least moving to Blue and Purple cities therein) this in addition to rural hospital closures which leaves large areas lacking proper medical care at all.

Throw in these fucking people's rapid slide into perversion and lusting after young girls...while at the same time increasing persecution of LGBT people (Or at least of consensual, normal LGBT openness, people and relationships) as well as their Pogrom against knowledge of such matters also...and consider how that stacks up with their rapid push at the state level for loosening child labor laws (This despite the fact that the Federal government is asserting that it has control of such things and the States can go fuck themselves.)

You're damn right I think there's more than all that going on here.

I saw recently that in Iowa, the new laws say 16-year-olds can serve alcohol. Now, I don't know about you, but I don't know any parents who'd let their kid work in that kind of job. 

And I kind of gather that all this shit is targeted, anyway, at immigrants who might not know American labor laws (or who might not, themselves, care.)

I'm just waiting for the first national sexual harassment scandal involving a grown-ass man (probably some married Republican scumbag) and an underage hospitality worker. 

And I know it will happen.

I worked in food service for over 25 years, it will happen. 50/50 whether it involves a teenage boy or a teenage girl. In my time in that industry I witnessed...and reported...both in equal measure, including multiple incidents of normie gay dudes being sexually harassed by ostensibly straight, married men...more than one of whom was loudly conservative/reactionary and/or Christian.

Plus there was more than one case of a male coworker getting a female coworker pregnant and the resulting situation not working out. There's a certain class of dude-bro what likes the idea of punishing women who break up with them or who say "No" in the first place...much less get an abortion.

And there's a lot of those guys that work in places like casinos and kitchens, too. (And for whom impulse control, generally, isn't much of a thing. These kinds of guys aren't great when a dude turns them down, either.)

Maybe it's just me, but I think as much as anything these fucking people's Jihad against sexual knowledge (while it's also aimed at attacking interracial relationships and LGBT sexualities, yes) is in sum total and assault against the idea of consent.

They know a lot of people don't even need a damned library. They know anybody with a Smartphone can find the raw info on Wikipedia or assorted other places online.

They just don't want other people to be knowledgeable enough to say "No" or to get help with the consequences or results of their actions, or to be able to get help (that's not dependent on their whims, or on religion and involving a bunch of conditions) if a girl or young woman gets pregnant.

On the one hand it's about patriarchal power and reactionary moron-ism, I get that.

On the other hand, in a more general sense it's more specifically about creating some kind of Gonzo White-Trash Afghanistan, with some sort of Taliban-For-White-People...if not in charge period, certainly in power beyond the city limits of large cities, the foreign military bases and whatever safe zones have been established.

Except there's one small detail everybody appears to be missing.

This time around we ain't (really) talking about some kind of hyper-radicalized Fundamentalist Christianity, let alone Radical Islam or Russian Orthodox Jihadism or some sort of violent Traditionalist Catholicism...although certainly the behavior of these fucking people in this situation will be basically the same as all of the above.

No.

These Fucking People are the Cult of Dis Pater, chthonic Roman God (and Christian demon, naturally) of Death and Wealth...and more importantly of the power to distribute each as they like.

Fuck Christianity, although they'll keep a front of that shit for as long as they have to, I suppose. Almost nobody on the Right really believes in it anymore. Much of American Christianity...particularly White Evangelicalism and anything to do with the Prosperity Gospel...is already hollowed out and given over to Idolatry and Mammon (including that of the Golden Idol of Donald Trump) already.

And if the Russians come at us, which I think likely no matter how things go in Ukraine or the rest of Europe...they'll gladly adopt a front of Fake-Ass Russian Orthodoxy at least among right-wing elites.

And they know there'll be resistance, even (perhaps even more so) if they manage to break up America and found their own stinking little Banana Republic(s) or some kind of neo-Soviet Satellite State.

Hell, they're fucking counting on it.

For the simple-ass reason that a lot of the dudes who are the main drivers of this horse shit are (as we saw just a couple days ago) goat-eager to shoot somebody for no reason.

I mean, for real, these assholes just want any scenario that'll give them no limits cruelty.

Give these motherfuckers their own dirty-ass little modern equivalent to a walled-off East Germany, especially with internal resistance (and that resistance being supported by a the EU, NATO, a rump-United States and the UN, perhaps even the Ukrainians returning the favor) along with external attackers, do it. I guarantee you that these ass clowns will basically think they're living out their most depraved fantasies of shooting it out with the armies of the Antichrist. "Giant purple priapism" does not even begin to cover it. 

And all their conspiracy theories, grievance, lies and rage suddenly become Holy Purpose (TM.)

Left Behind is a lie, and I think they know it. Trouble is, they're cooking up their own apocalyptic fantasies to replace the Christian End Times narrative, and they're even worse.

All their fear and hate of anything "Other" will also turn inward, not only manifesting itself in ethnic, political, religious, sexual and various other forms of violent cleansing...the time will very quickly come where it becomes impossible to be "Conservative" or "Devout" enough in one's Cult-belief.

And you know what? They absolutely don't give a damn if their most visible opposition is some teenage Latina (herself perhaps a Pentecostal from Guatemala) who got tired of getting catcalled and grabbed and groped while waitressing at the bar and avoiding rape in whatever place she can get on the equivalent of a dollar an hour and shitty tips. 

Or some young gay dude working nights in a meat-packing plant, tired of avoiding abuse and rape and sexual harassment from the same people who performatively hate him and who subject everybody to low pay and shitty working conditions. 

People would get tired of this shit. Tired enough to find others like themselves and somebody (local malcontent, US loyalist or foreign agent) who'd teach them...and then pick up a rifle and try to do something about the unjust world These Fucking People want to create.

Hell, the people doing this shit are perfectly fine with themselves living under some constant state of war, with air battles between their own MiG's (again, let's be real about who'd support them) and NATO/US F-35's overhead and tank battles between M1 Abrams and whatever scrounged up junk T-55's and shit they get from the goddamn Russians and throwing their own raggedy-ass old-guy militia and whatever other troops they've got at The Enemy...

Who will rapidly acquire, in their minds, the Satanic qualities my ex-wife's church applied to anybody and anything tagged with those words.

Of course people will fight back, and fight back like hell, because they have to.

Because the alternative is to live in fear of being shot for walking on the wrong patch of grass anyway.

If that's what you're stuck with no matter what...I'd fight back, wouldn't you? At least then, you know this shit might stop at some point!

Again...these fucking people, these alleged "Conservatives" are counting on exactly that...for the same damn reason that they want to whack it to the idea of somebody like George Soros being executed (No matter how obviously fake the video is.)

Because cruelty's the point. They think they want to live in this kind of world, as much as anything because they're bored and have become debased. 

Because they're addicts and will require ever stronger hits of cruelty and fear and hate and rage to get the same high...and I watched some of these Fox News watchers close for over a decade. 

That is exactly what this is, a High, like drugs.

And they don't want to be a part of any civilization that doesn't give them that high, those hits of cruelty, and then hold them up as Gods and kiss their ass on a constant basis.

Seems like especially if you're actually conservative it'd just be simpler to keep the civilization we have where you won't get murdered for pulling in the wrong driveway or walking up to the wrong door.

The Truth is simple, Man makes it complicated because he does not want to obey.

Stuff like "Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" or "There is no Deity but God and Muhammad is His Messenger" or even "Hey bro, this is America and we don't do stuff like that here" don't make these motherfuckers feel special enough anymore.

Even wiping their dicks on the walls of Plato's Cave has lost its appeal.

These people are fast becoming Idolaters in the literal Biblical sense, only I'm here to tell you since I know a thing or two about this stuff I'm afraid of what they'll start worshipping next.

And we'd best get ahead of this shit and step up and stop it before it gets worse. We all have to do it, we can't just put this on Democratic politicians, or young people, or the military or the police. 

Most of our institutions have the same problems as the rest of the country.

A third of our society has no concept of right and wrong.

We'd best start addressing this, fast.

We can prevent all the fucked up shit, but only if we all come together and say "No."

When is enough finally going to be enough?

Does "Civis Americanus Sum" even mean anything, anymore? Why are so many of us willing to sell out America for basically nothing?

If I say "If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen" does it even register?

It better start.

Soon.

Five

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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear (2004)