Last Stand (American Revelation XIII, One.)

The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields

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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

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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

So apparently, Republicans are just coming right out now and saying that Hitler, Mao and Stalin "Are the direction they want to take this country in.

Thus saith the Party of "Freedom?"

Freedom for whom, and freedom to do what??

'Cause I'm going to be honest. I used to be a Republican and I didn't know "Freedom to go to hell and be with motherfuckers like Hitler, Mao and Stalin" was ever on the ticket.

Reagan Wept, among other people.

Apparently Trump tried to say last weekend that he's for "religion" and Biden...who is a practicing Catholic...isn't.

Trump is basically an Atheist, he's ignorant of the Word and seems to believe in no thing more than he believes in himself. But, because he tells the Evangelicals how great they are and hates the same people that they do, they think he's Jesus.

Just sayin' Christians, if you want to go to hell right alongside guys like Hitler, Mao, and Stalin...keep accepting Trump as your "Lord and Savior." That's not a joke...stuff like that is, well, standard Christian belief from 20-25 years ago. 

Worshiping Man and not God is one sure way to go to Hell.

Read the Bible, motherfuckers.

On a trip up here from downstate in 2004, I ran into the Pastor of my old church at the grocery store in town before heading out to my mom's. I mentioned to him that there was such a religion as "Celebrity Worship" per an encyclopedia of World Religions that I was then reading...

I thought he was going to go full Fire And Brimstone in the middle of the grocery store, and that is not a joke.

Being a Republican these days apparently consists of two things;

#1 Being a bitter, revenge-obsessed patriarchal religious asshole while worshipping Donald Trump as if Trump were some kind of God walking around on the Earth or something.

#2 Wanting to kill anyone who Doesn't, or who Isn't From Here, or who doesn't buy into MAGA's Manifest-Destiny-On-Meth version of the Prosperity Gospel. 

It's a Christless Calvinism, like the dour Afrikaner religious fanatics that founded the Boer Republics and later turned already-racist South Africa into an Apartheid state...or the English speaking version just over the border in Rhodesia going on two decades after that...but much more feebleminded and without any of the rationalizations that made those places what they theoretically were.

See, the people who did that shit claimed they were the last outpost of Christianity and defending "Western Values" too. 

And in so doing they basically made the Communists look like the fucking good guys. And Congress had to override Reagan's veto of sanctions on South Africa in the 1980's. Think about that, for a second.

But how does that work when the only thing these fucking people are interested in defending is not God or even leftover British Colonialism but...Donald Trump??

Unless you really want us to believe that consumerism, greed and petty hatreds really are the sum total of Christianity and "Western Values" I'd proceed carefully from this moment forward, "Conservatives."

Republicans proceed to assure me, complete with a big show, a bunch of bright lights, and total lack of self-awareness...that this is exactly what they believe the sum total of Western Values to be. The Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia...but with a church and a Mall complete with some underage worker behind the counter selling 100% Certified Not-Gay pictures of Donald Trump's head photoshopped onto some muscle-y beefcake dude's body.

I don't like this sequel to Idiocracy.

And I, having been a Christian and a Republican, am confused as to how we even got here. It makes no sense according to...these fucking people's stated values. 

If you take anything at face value, there's no valid reason for this bullshit.

(Which is exactly why I think it was all bullshit.)

You tell me, "Conservatives." How did we get here? You can't even tell me that, can you?

At least not without admitting that it was all a lie. The Left didn't convince me of this, YOU did.

Let alone how these assholes ended up worshiping a man who was the literal antithesis of everything they ever claimed to believe before...and for no better reason than he was White-trash-fancy, willing to talk up a bunch of racist crap and tolerant of their LGBT-phobia. 

It makes no sense.

Unless, that is, all this other stuff was a complete and total lie the entire time.

And now, these fucking people's basic attitude towards a bunch of the rest of us is "How dare they be alive and happy and doing things that are perfectly legal between consenting adults in the places where they are being done."

It's like they think the rest of the world is somehow bound to follow the dour religiosity they themselves ignore.

Conservatism these days seems to consist of *Checks Notes* building bombastic ostensibly Christian cathedrals to honor the Red Army and the atheistic Soviet Union. I can't make that shit make sense.

And it's this hypocrisy that killed the entire "Conservative" thing for me. Political or social conservatism, or religion, was 100% able to be discarded until it had to be re-adopted purely as a shield of lies for bad behavior. 

There literally is no extant form of conservatism that isn't dependent on hatred towards some "Other" (if not all "Others" at this point) purely to hold it together.

Being merely politically or socially conservative, or religious, at this point...while professing either a belief in (small-L, small-D) liberal democracy, or a rejection of Fascism, or both...basically makes one a Democrat.

And then, these fucking people...whether it's American Republicans or Russian Orcs...have the balls to get mad when other people resist destruction or domination at their hands.

Winston Churchill once famously said that if Hitler invaded Hell, he'd at least speak up in favor of the Devil in the House Of Commons.

This is pretty much the right attitude to have with this shit. These fucking people don't even care if their own beliefs make sense. They just want to hate and kill and they'll make up anything that lets them do that.

It's basically, as I've said before, the "Gospel Of Whatever Lets Me Sleep Through The Night."

And that's not only all these fucking clowns have left...it's all they even want.

As near as I can tell, expressed belief...while engaging in completely contradictory behaviors, is itself being seen as an expression of Power.

But it's power these fucking people don't really have anymore, and can only grant among themselves.

So what do they do?? Convince themselves that everybody else is "really" just like them, and then certain in their claimed knowledge that everyone and everything is really shit, they try to colonize their fellow Americans.

I suppose it works right up until the Natives come up to your wounded ass, kill you and then mutilate your ass after badly savaging your cavalry regiment.

I suppose it works right up until the sea comes crashing in through the window.

They're going to rationalize themselves right into destruction...but they'll probably take whole nations down with them, unless the rest of us stand up and stop this shit.

Don't be these fucking people.

Honor the shark that ate the Russian man. Let other people be themselves, same as you'd expect to be left alone. Mock Donald Trump. Reject any religion that tolerates this bullshit. Support people who are fighting for their own right to exist.

It's not really even that hard.

Can you tell me, Conservatives, why it's so hard for you to be against Colonialism in a country that bases its entire damned existence off having rejected being a colony??

If this was the Last Stand on Earth, as Reagan said...the last stand of what?

What do we, as a people, collectively desire to be Free to do??

If we can't answer that, and do it honestly...and then rectify any faults...then America is fully deserving of the torments of Revelation.

Welcome to American Revelation, again.

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan