Those will be *the first* to get rolled over by the new regime. Its not the jackasses in pick-up trucks with flags you should fear, it’s the ardent young male true believers in their 20’s - 50’s who wear the suits, are revanchist intellectuals, and are true blue woman-hating male chauvinists who want their time in power.
The countercultural movement has been made soft with the easy fiction that reactionary conservatives are all slack-jawed hillbillies or upward-failing, out of touch dads with slacks pulled up to their nipples. The anger, the discriminatory and ego-driven nature, the ruthlessness... They're dangerous.
The very fact that we’re in this position should dispel the notion that these people are dumb.
The ones in power are, for the most part, very intelligent. They’ve played the game of politics nearly perfectly for the last 50 years on a level that would make Machiavelli bust a nut, and there’s a chance they’ve already won and we just haven’t seen the final move of an elaborate checkmate. Their policies are deeply unpopular, yet they’re at a major advantage despite that. They are patient, they are organized, they are pragmatic, and they know how to manipulate people.
I refuse to acknowledge that form of intelligence when all they seriously do, is rig a broken patriarchal tribal game over and over and each iteration furthers their interest.
Whatever intelligence you wish to bestow upon them, do not mistake any of it for wisdom.
And not only that, the longer course of history has proved that they do not have a long-term winning position. Their ideas are antiquated and are dying out. There are just as many people, if not more, who are just as smart, if not smarter than them.
I see it as the remnants of Kings, or the idea that certain families (groups) are rulers. They have a historical advantage of owning land as compensation for giving up their Kingship - their divine rights, etc.
It's a dumbshit model that appeals to a lot of people apparently. This can only be a historical hangover of "simpler times" when the fishmonger was called Mr. Fish and the mailman was called Mr. Post. A childlike world that persisted probably for centuries with the occasional witch burning and sacrifice to the Gods conveniently forgotten.
They are not intelligent, but rather cunning and of course extremely selfish.
They have no compunctions in breaking society for their own selfish ends which is just to exercise dominion on those who they view as inferior, women, poc and those who they view outside of society, gay and trans folks.
Evil in human form.
The Siberian plateau, back in the day, had very talented warriors on amazing horses. I'm talking specifically about the Western Jin dynasty. Before them, Mongolians and all sorts of Turkic armies from the northern steppes had been warring with the Eastern Jin dynasty. Nobody got any traction.
Under Emperor Wu, the Western Jin dynasty conquered the Eastern Wu and succeeded in unifying China. The peace held for around 100 years. They ended up being so bad at governing, their empire fell to corruption, political turmoil, and internal conflicts. In this, they are like the Yuan, and also the Qing dynasties, IMO.
My point is, by turning the country over to people who have really no interest in building anything - only maintaining their power - you get today's Republican party. They're barbaric, but powerful as hell. The oligarchs absolutely love them.
The Jin empire intermarried like crazy and tried to pass themselves off as ordinary replacements for those they defeated. I doubt anybody bought their scam - culturally, they were just too rude. They're like dogs that caught the car. They didn't put it to any use, but they succeeded forever avoiding high-minded ideas about 'consent of the governed', anything like that.
That one shot at a fair government for most people vanished in China 2000 years ago, and will never return.
While we've been fighting over pronouns and cultural appropriation, they've been appropriating the levers of power. We've been distracted by side quests for decades and now we're paying the price.
Leadership’s utter contempt for the truth distinguishes them. From tobacco companies and cancer to oil and gas climate research, their willingness to take “oaths” on the Bible and lie their asses off distinguishes them. Consolidated media just makes it easier.
No they aren’t. Mormons are fucking huge babies. I was raised mormon and live in Utah. You’re probably thinking of polygamist sects. But mormons are just cosplaying christian with a huge victim complex. They wilt like flowers when there is conflict in my experience.
While this makes for an interesting article that generates some literary royalties, any right winger trained in economics knows **this is just another lie to fire up the base.**
(a) These are people who hope to control their town as "town fathers" and all the business in it, the way small town business used to be conducted in the church parking lots in the 1950s. Ask the Mormons who this worked out for them.
(b) Just like SJW "ethical investing" this kind of arrangement requires very wealthy sponsors to invest at below-market returns to make it happen. If they do, this is not gonna last long. You're asking conservatives to lose money to help someone else.
For over a year a fat white woman has been walking by our local school (half Mexican descent) wearing that shirt every single morning right when they are walking to school.
Christian values=wear a profane shirt that must also stink to high heaven and harass brown teenagers just trying to go to school
I was worried that the supreme court was paving the way to a right wing theocracy, but after their ruling on Grant's Pass v. Johnson, I feel better that nobody is trying to turn this country into a *Christian* nation.
They want a Christian Nationalist nation. It’s Christian in name only. Actual Christians are fighting against them, but they are a voice in the background. As for Atheists, your children will be forced to recite Christian dogma in public schools and they might be all turned into Christian schools. The USA will cease being a secular nation.
This is all part of [project 2025](https://project2925.org)
They are going to put the homeless in rehabilitation camps to "get them sober and back on their feet." Liberals won't complain too much because it'll be good for property values and improve daily life in the cities. The government contracted rehab farms will have them doing manual labor for way less than minimum wage. It's not going to work out and people will start dying en masse in the camps.
And by then the county sheriff will be the highest authority in the land, and he’ll be making so much in kickbacks from the sex trafficking rings operating in those camps that he won’t lift a finger when complaints come in.
Those people are not going to be the ones in power. They have no value to the ones in charge other than making them suckers for campaign donations and votes. By the time they come to see it, it will be too late.
Because he’s nothing more than a means to an end for them.
In fact, he’s the ideal candidate for this purpose: he has no scruples, and no agenda beyond his own personal aggrandizement. As long as he gets to be the guy in the big chair, and the guy holding up the signed bill from behind the Resolute desk, he’ll put pen to whatever paper people put in front of him.
Traditionally "western values" means secularism, democracy, enlightenment philosophy, science, rule of law, etc.
You know, things that people like trump perfectly embody.
They are destroying "western civilization," then projecting and accusing their enemies of doing it. Unless "western values" is just a code word for white people, then everything they say makes perfect sense.
They believe in the "Western Civilization" of the middle ages, when everyone was forced to go to the same church and do what they were told, when the large majority of people were trained to be obedient peasants, and thinking for yourself was absolutely forbidden. That's what they want. I wish I was kidding. I'm not even exaggerating.
Those revolting peasants and heretics were almost always simply killed off, men, women and children. The Middle Ages were pretty gruesome, to say the least. They knew how to deal with dissenters.
They are not 'new conservatives'...they are white nationalists....pretending to believe in the bible. Instead...they are insecure themselves and are not being responsible for their own happiness...they must in turn try to rule with hate and division. I am not religious...but I am sure fear, hate and division are not what most pastors teach.
>but I am sure fear, hate and division are not what most pastors teach.
No that's pretty much what they teach. It's more of "only we are good and everyone else is a demon" sort of thing. But it achieves the same end.
The article describes one of these dudes who moved his family to Idaho. He’s so insecure in his masculinity that his wife makes sure to give him the less “feminine” looking tea cup. They’ve got 8 kids and I bet most will end up rejecting their parents faith.
Handmaids Tale is coming from the Christian Taliban. Joe sucked at the debate, but his politics are still better than project 2025 Trump. The presidents job is to put the best qualified people in top positions in government and foreign policy. The right wing thinks they want christo-fascism, but very, very, very few of them will benefit. Vote for grandpa potato and not grandpa cheetolini the child rapist.
I'm a lurker here, but thought I'd share what I wrote to a friend. I think humans naturally have a tendency toward mysticism and also tribalism. If you cross the two of them you get roughly this. It's something that can be exploited because it combines two aspects of human nature that are resistant to breaking through to the rational.
It's because they're using the same strategy putin used to strangle russia, he also uses propaganda that says 'to preserve Russian culture' and variations like that.
And that dream is non existent… global warming is changing our world and will continue to. They want a mirage that never was and never will be. And I refuse to be ruled by delusional cultists! Vote blue!
It's gotten marginally worse and they've gotten louder, but this has gone on for almost 50 years. These are the flowers of the Reagan revolution. I've fought with people who argued that there were "reasonable conservatives" for decades. This has always been their endgame.
Goebbels was better because he had vastly more effective outcomes without modern PR tools like social media platforms. He convinced the vast, vast majority of Germans to support war, Ghetto prisons, mass murders, etc.
Nazi PR/propaganda was among the best in history. There really is no modern equivalent because of the Internet. Only countries that cut off their Internet from the outside world can even come close.
Also, Trump's PR is only convincing idiots and people who were already fascists to begin with. It isn't really a hard sell. They're not effectively convincing anyone with much of anything to lose or with little to gain. Goebbels and the Nazis absolutely did.
Have they, though? I don't see the public taking to the streets and demanding the politicians pushing the policies that support this agenda be removed from office.
Voter apathy has been carefully cultivated for decades.
The situation is bad. Foreign adversaries are manipulating social media to brainwash all segments of the population for nefarious purposes. To cause chaos in our societies and to further their goals.
Something needs to be done.
Social media is poisoned and the masses are drinking continuously from the well. This is our parents, our children, and our future that is impacted by this.
I don’t know what can be done.
If only these social media companies could be held accountable for the way their programs are built to both be addictive (Gimme Dat quick dopamine fix bruddah) and disseminate misinformation.
They have too much money to really be bothered though. Looks like the root of all evil strikes again.
I feel that the only real problem is that they create loud echo chambers, which is a little bit tied to the dopamine rush.
If the social media didn't created this effect, it wouldn't create this huge problem, but allas, you can't keep users if you don't show them what they want.
If we get out of this, putin and the Russian government need to be forcibly removed from power. Not for Russia, but for the sake of the rest of the world.
They're using fearful religion - not their logical brains. There are far better ways to address our problems, and fear-based religion is not a good one. These are not stupid people at all, but they're being governed by their own fear, and ultimately their narrowminded selfishness.
They want to fire 50,000+ federal workers and place MAGA Trump supporters in their place if they don’t completely close the agency like the EPA, Dept of education etc.
Yeah I’ve read that. Here’s to hoping there’s a massive blue wave to AT LEAST get the White House back and slowly chip away at all of the other bullshit. Step at a time I suppose.
I agree. It seems they are craving violence and goading is into throwing the first stone. Stay vigilant. I am a non violent person day to day…but… things cans change quickly.
All the right does is Preach Hate. Started with the radio shows way back. Thanks Russ!!!! Have a friend who's on the right. He won't listen to logic at all. Talking to a brick wall........
Have you ever heard of “The Brainwashing of my dad” ? It’s a documentary from 2015. Does a good job of showing what listening to those hate preachers does to a person. The guy there ends up coming back to the realm of the living eventually, but not after wasting a ton of his life on that shit. The way people just let themselves believe just about anything trips me out.
Interestingly enough, that documentary mirrors the podcast “into the rabbit hole” where they break down a guys YouTube radicalization. If you haven’t seen or heard these two I would recommend checking them out for some insight into their propaganda machine.
You have it all wrong. The people in charge of the movement aren't religious. I wouldn't be surprised if they were atheist. They just know how to use religion.
Of course, these Christian values will be limited only to the things that are costly to individual freedom and freedom of expression.
None of Christ's teachings about remembering the poor or building a just society will apply.
Also, slavery will be back because it's Old Testament approved.
I haven't read about slavery yet, but they definitely want to bring conscription back and make pornography illegal. And revive the spoils system so all political *appointments* go to cronies. We should all start reading the project. It's available online and also saved on Wayback. There is enough in there that is scary that we don't need to resort to hyperbole.
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they also want to make gender discrimination legal. magats are all for it.
maga women dont realize that includes discrimination against cis women, and will thus impact them too. or they dont believe that will happen to them.
edit: clarification
Oh they do realize that it included women. They also ban any data collection of race, gender and ethnicity, private or public. To ensure data will no longer exist to support any claims. White men will control the job market.
>Christian values.
Wants to elect a felon who cheats on his wives with porn stars and molests children.
>Larger families.
Hates and tries to outlaw IVF.
>Fewer immigrants.
Wants to elect a man who imported his wife here.
>Men wearing traditional suits.
Most of them (including their choice of President) can’t fit in to traditional suits and look terrible in them.
I worry about a possible Inquisition where the country has tribunals and witch trials for non-believers and heretics.
As a Buddhist I feel very threatened by Christian Dogma. Buddhism is not a belief system at its core. Sure there are some Buddhist sects who fall into that category. Most of us are non-religious.
In any case, I don't want those people up in my business.
These fuckers would crucify the Lord Jesus Christ if he returned because he preached the exact opposite of what they preach.
Evangelicals are under the spell of the antichrist.
To make it even more biblical, you can't mix God and Mammon (money). And that's what these terrorists want to do.
This evangelical Christian nationalist movement must be put down, at the ballot boxes and with force, if necessary. It is every bit as insidious as Islamic fundamentalism.
These idiots all think they’re going to be in charge of stuff. They’re going to be real surprised at which end of the whip they find themselves at. Working 14 hour days for nothing, getting killed by their jobs because there isn’t any safety, pollution everywhere, never owning homes, prey to landlords and banks, no healthcare. Their kids will be illiterate. Sons slaving in factories and fields, dying in wars. Daughters will be working in the factories and fields with the men except the ones the bosses pick to be their maids and whores. 95% of society will be less than trash.
Boeing is killing people and these idiots want to deregulate everything. They’ll get the hell they deserve if they get their goals. Sadly, we’ll be in it with them.
Its already happening in red states.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death#:~:text=States%20including%20Arkansas%20and%20Iowa,and%2017%2Dyear%2Dolds.
What they don't get is they are basically like Hilter's Brown shirts. Once their usefulness is done with them they'll be screwed over like the rest of us. There must be some sort of Authoritarian playbook they all follow.
If Project 2025 is implemented women’s rights won’t exist anymore. The FDA will rescind its approval of all birth control. Ultimately abortion will cease to exist. The all powerful male establishment is unable to distinguish between miscarriages or partial miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and many other complications and abortion. To them it’s all the same. This puts any woman of child bearing age in potential danger. Even if you don’t believe in abortion. If ever you have a complication with your pregnancy, you will become a believer.
We cannot allow this conservative monstrosity to destroy our democracy.
The groups wearing the MAGA hats are gonna be in for a rude surprise when the true commanders stick them in the factories while taking their land and jacked up pickups for god.
LOL at people thinking trump will return America to Christian values what a bunch of gullibles. Also what does making America great AGAIN mean for black people and gay people, because technically the further you go back the worse it gets for them!
The racist, fake christian, radical fascist, republican terrorist can not be allowed to take over our country. Vote Blue, and then let’s fix Blue so we don’t have a repeat of the republican takeover.
The thing is literally NO ONE is stopping them from doing this now or ever! There are ZERO LGBTQ+ politicians working to pass laws to stop them from having large families, attending church, not getting or allowing abortions within their families, etc. They have simply convinced themselves that they are victims of a made up social and political construct that does not exist.
Western values? Christian values? Family values? Less immigrants? And they think trump is their man?
Did trump ever go to church before being president? Has he read even a little of the bible? When asked for his favourite story didn’t he answer something like they are all good? A classic “haven’t read the book” answer a child would give in school.
How many wives has he had? How many of those wives has he cheated on?
Isn’t his current wife an immigrant?
It just boggles my mind that people seem to act like trump is the embodiment of Christian values
Unless I am mistaken Biden attends church often and doesn’t turn it into a publicity stunt. How many wives has Biden had? Two? And no divorce as his first wife died. Has he cheated on his wife?
Just seems out of these two options biden upholds Christian and even conservative family values much better than trump
Voting wont matter if after we vote the democrats do nothing
After we vote blue, we need to make the effort to demand some things
1) the arrest of MAGA leadership in connection with a conspiracy to commit treason
2) the labeling of MAGA not as a hate group but as a terrorist organization
3) a new amendment to set term limits on supreme court justices.
4) The removal of MAGA leadership, from local to federal leadership. From school boards all the way up to the senate.
5) The disolution of the Heritage foundation and the arrest of its leadership on charges of conspiracy to commit Sedition and Treason
If we dont demand this? Nothing will change...we will just buy 4 more years of democracy and then have to do it again every single election...until they win once...and then its over for the country.
Germany eventually got fed up with the AfD and was moving some plans into place to get them designated as terrorists after their last electoral defeat. Similar concept.
Well those suits are going to be huge, given that the average American male is 50-150 pounds overweight. And dresses to match? Bring down the household curtains.
I believe they wouldn't fight. They'd trading daughters and bloodlines for status, in religion and life. Would suck up to each other and together show superiors how good they are to het more favor.
They won’t even have immigrants to blame. And with so, so many “Christian” factions, how long before the infighting really starts? How long before they eye the riches of the Mormon church and decide that they are in fact heretics. The Scientologists that have worked hand in hand with this religious revolution, will they sneakily come out on top, so you think? Or will their compatriots eat them alive?
When power is controlled by the in-group, it is in every group member’s interest to shrink the group, hoping to be the last left.
I love how they think they’re gonna remove the immigrants. Like have you driven across the country and seen all these fucking farms we have here in America? I would love to see a bunch of white people out there picking the fields. Because that’s what they think is gonna happen. What a laugh riot.
You really think Canada won't end up a willing importer of American christofascism?
You've witnessed that conservatives do not play by the rules and will bend and manipulate the system to favor them even if they are in the minority. Ultimately, once they control the judiciary, they can get their way no matter how few people are voting for them.
Don't rest on your laurels.
I have been saying for at least 6 years that liberals need to move to the rural county’s of the low population states. It’s the only way to change things.
I guess the conservatives listened to me…
They are voting to make major companies bigger and stronger than the government. They don’t care how much is ruined until it affects their town. Except now they have worked to strip away any power the federal government has to help them.
These voters think they are going to be able to protect their own town like a bunch of Jack Reachers in real life. In real life Jack Reacher is federal regulators showing up with environmental protections or OSHA statutes to make everyone safer.
if you look at the way religion is being imposed on society and religious beliefs influence government policies, the US is a far better place than the UK.The UK and Europe has seen it's fair share of religious blood letting and torture, so the secular democracy without religious influence is jealously guarded.
The laws and regulations and public policies are based on the good of all the people in society regardless of religious beliefs.....
The US makes decisions on abortion based on the bible, the forced introduction of the bible in schools ( with no regreds for the atheist or Muslims or Jews) posting the 10 commandments in school and teaching bible classes is a dream come true for these kinds of groups..... Christian republic of America
> Fed up by what they see as an increasingly hostile and disordered secular culture
Imagine being hostile towards anyone and everyone different from you then complaining the world is "too hostile".
A conservative think tank is starting an initiative to discuss conservative ideas with those freely interested to learn. This think tank will very quickly tear down Hollywood, American Universities, Main Stream Press, Social Media, AI tools, the entire democrat party, libertarians and our public schools. There will be nothing to stop it, unless they get hungry and take a lunch break. But right after lunch, watch out!
“I personally would happily pay high H.O.A. fees to be in a neighborhood where I have to drive by an architecturally significant church every day, and I can hear church bells,” he said.
“The Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationally, was a watershed moment for Mr. Abbotoy and other conservatives’ understanding of how quickly the ground could shift under their feet. It is a decision that signaled to them the onset of an era that the conservative Christian writer Aaron Renn — who has spoken at the fraternal society’s events — calls “negative world,” an influential concept that describes a culture in which “being known as a Christian is a social negative, particularly in the elite domains of society.”
I mean, this guy was weird af before he converted to anything. Now he’s an entitled-acting baby-man complaining that he suffers for being a Christian, and that we’re the reason why his life is so hard. We all know these people. They’re insufferable, but we manage to suffer through them without taking away their rights or body autonomy. They ain’t planning to return the goodwill.
I read the article. Let me summarize it: White supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and Christian Nationalists are leaving blue states and moving to red states like Idaho to centralize their power and create a new, separatist, Aryan Nation based on values from Hitler and other fascists.
Saved you a click.
I seriously doubt they’re gonna be going out into society and forcing their conservative rules on the way people dress or how people act. They’ll just continue to make as many in the policy restrictions as possible, while building up the police to be an insane Nazi Gestapo unit so that all the wrong people are always in jail or being harassed.
I think these people will ultimately fail at what they’re trying because as a group they are stupid , greedy and incompetent . They will never be able to enforce the garbage they are proposing besides nobody really wants it in the first place.
It would really help if there was a mass movement of getting people off social media. Give people a few months to recalibrate. People are addicted to attention, fed constant streams of bullshit, and stuck in echo chambers.
We have to vote but I think it’s too late. The right has woken up and realized that they don’t need to manipulate to seize power. They can just seize it by relying upon the inertia of the middle and the left. They can literally just take it because they think we won’t stop them. They’re probably right.
Some time ago I've heard my own mother say something about how she doesn't like hearing people speak spanish in workplace environments. I understand from personal experience having complaints about working in an environment where coworkers only speak spanish and can't communicate with us, but that's not her problem. She doesn't like it because "in america we speak english!" It doesn't matter if they can speak english when they have to. People with this ideology just won't tolerate other languages in official settings, acting like people speaking their native languages to each other on US soil is some cultural takeover.
I get where you're coming from with that, but that would actually be a disability that people can't help. Make it a foreign cultural thing though and it'd be on the table to oppress.
I understand that, I'm just saying if she gets pissed about people not speaking English because she can't understand them, I was simply wondering if she gets pissed about that because they're communicating in a language she likely doesn't know. Despite it being English.
Oh, it's more than just not being able to understand it. It's about some conservative ideal of wanting to have tight control over the cultural identity of an entire nation. They want everyone to present themselves as culturally "american" while keeping their original culture behind closed doors.
You know what. Let's just let them have some of the southern states and their own country. They can pay to relocate all of the liberals to sane states, and they can have their theocratic dystopia. When they run out of money because they're no longer getting federal funds and they refuse to tax their citizens, we can point and laugh.
I brought this up, and someone I was speaking with made a good point. They won't do that, and they will do everything to let us leave because they have to "win." They want dominance. They want to destroy us and build an endless supply of slaves. That's why they criminalized homelessness.
Personally, I would rather they all move to an island and live there in the bed they made. Or better yet, put us all on an island, and people would be happier overall, mostly cause we won't have those people to deal with and people are happy they can be actually free to be & love without repercussions.
What bullshit is this? “Christian values?” Lol they don’t even know what values are. And they don’t want a withered national administrative state, they want to bend the knee to their king Trump.
Don’t believe the bullshit they spew. None of what was said here was true. They want to destroy this country and make Trump a king. That is it.
Gilead. Project 2025. Christo-fascism.
* They stand against everything that America stands for. That's why they're ok with turning this country fascist. They're an existential threat to freedom, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.
* For everything you believe in, and for everyone you love, get out and vote. And then vote in your congressional elections too.
* All is not lost, but we're very close to it.
Get these people out of public offices. There's a lot of work to do, including removing Alito and Clarence Thomas from the supreme court. None of that can be accomplished, without voting for Biden to ensure he wins this election.
All of those things are lies. Look at Florida: they aren't getting "stronger local controls"; the state regularly overrides local decisions when locals are "wrong" (read: not authoritarian.)
They don't want a single Christian value - not help for the poor, not treating refugees with kindness, not loving thy neighbor; none of that. The diametric opposite.
They certainly aren't trying to put money in architecture (that's "the arts" and again look at Florida who just got rid of all state level art support), or even infrastructure - except where that's a code word for kickbacks for conservative donating construction companies. Which, if you look at recent politics in the villages in Florida, gives those companies carte blanche to override those "strong local controls" too.
It's just a molecule-thin veneer over attacks on worker rights and anyone currently in the out group. And make no mistake, that *will* be everyone if they consolidate enough power.
Yet they’re the ones running around with the “fuck Biden” flags and being generally anti-social. The exact opposite of what Christian’s claim to be.
Those will be *the first* to get rolled over by the new regime. Its not the jackasses in pick-up trucks with flags you should fear, it’s the ardent young male true believers in their 20’s - 50’s who wear the suits, are revanchist intellectuals, and are true blue woman-hating male chauvinists who want their time in power.
Mormons are scary to mess with for this very reason.
The countercultural movement has been made soft with the easy fiction that reactionary conservatives are all slack-jawed hillbillies or upward-failing, out of touch dads with slacks pulled up to their nipples. The anger, the discriminatory and ego-driven nature, the ruthlessness... They're dangerous.
The very fact that we’re in this position should dispel the notion that these people are dumb. The ones in power are, for the most part, very intelligent. They’ve played the game of politics nearly perfectly for the last 50 years on a level that would make Machiavelli bust a nut, and there’s a chance they’ve already won and we just haven’t seen the final move of an elaborate checkmate. Their policies are deeply unpopular, yet they’re at a major advantage despite that. They are patient, they are organized, they are pragmatic, and they know how to manipulate people.
I refuse to acknowledge that form of intelligence when all they seriously do, is rig a broken patriarchal tribal game over and over and each iteration furthers their interest. Whatever intelligence you wish to bestow upon them, do not mistake any of it for wisdom.
They are most certainly not wise, nor will they make good leaders.
And not only that, the longer course of history has proved that they do not have a long-term winning position. Their ideas are antiquated and are dying out. There are just as many people, if not more, who are just as smart, if not smarter than them.
I see it as the remnants of Kings, or the idea that certain families (groups) are rulers. They have a historical advantage of owning land as compensation for giving up their Kingship - their divine rights, etc. It's a dumbshit model that appeals to a lot of people apparently. This can only be a historical hangover of "simpler times" when the fishmonger was called Mr. Fish and the mailman was called Mr. Post. A childlike world that persisted probably for centuries with the occasional witch burning and sacrifice to the Gods conveniently forgotten.
They are not intelligent, but rather cunning and of course extremely selfish. They have no compunctions in breaking society for their own selfish ends which is just to exercise dominion on those who they view as inferior, women, poc and those who they view outside of society, gay and trans folks. Evil in human form.
They got control of the courts. That shows patience and organization. They are scary.
The Siberian plateau, back in the day, had very talented warriors on amazing horses. I'm talking specifically about the Western Jin dynasty. Before them, Mongolians and all sorts of Turkic armies from the northern steppes had been warring with the Eastern Jin dynasty. Nobody got any traction. Under Emperor Wu, the Western Jin dynasty conquered the Eastern Wu and succeeded in unifying China. The peace held for around 100 years. They ended up being so bad at governing, their empire fell to corruption, political turmoil, and internal conflicts. In this, they are like the Yuan, and also the Qing dynasties, IMO. My point is, by turning the country over to people who have really no interest in building anything - only maintaining their power - you get today's Republican party. They're barbaric, but powerful as hell. The oligarchs absolutely love them. The Jin empire intermarried like crazy and tried to pass themselves off as ordinary replacements for those they defeated. I doubt anybody bought their scam - culturally, they were just too rude. They're like dogs that caught the car. They didn't put it to any use, but they succeeded forever avoiding high-minded ideas about 'consent of the governed', anything like that. That one shot at a fair government for most people vanished in China 2000 years ago, and will never return.
While we've been fighting over pronouns and cultural appropriation, they've been appropriating the levers of power. We've been distracted by side quests for decades and now we're paying the price.
Leadership’s utter contempt for the truth distinguishes them. From tobacco companies and cancer to oil and gas climate research, their willingness to take “oaths” on the Bible and lie their asses off distinguishes them. Consolidated media just makes it easier.
Timothy McVeigh is their role model.
Which is why I’m an ARMED lefty. They will not take me quietly.
No they aren’t. Mormons are fucking huge babies. I was raised mormon and live in Utah. You’re probably thinking of polygamist sects. But mormons are just cosplaying christian with a huge victim complex. They wilt like flowers when there is conflict in my experience.
Not discrediting your experiences but...their money and actual power structure have never been threatened, or had free reign.
Yer not wrong. Organizationally they have a lot of power.
While this makes for an interesting article that generates some literary royalties, any right winger trained in economics knows **this is just another lie to fire up the base.** (a) These are people who hope to control their town as "town fathers" and all the business in it, the way small town business used to be conducted in the church parking lots in the 1950s. Ask the Mormons who this worked out for them. (b) Just like SJW "ethical investing" this kind of arrangement requires very wealthy sponsors to invest at below-market returns to make it happen. If they do, this is not gonna last long. You're asking conservatives to lose money to help someone else.
Sounds like some story told by a female assistant. Crazy tales from handmaidens, or something. /s
For over a year a fat white woman has been walking by our local school (half Mexican descent) wearing that shirt every single morning right when they are walking to school. Christian values=wear a profane shirt that must also stink to high heaven and harass brown teenagers just trying to go to school
Useful idiots
I was worried that the supreme court was paving the way to a right wing theocracy, but after their ruling on Grant's Pass v. Johnson, I feel better that nobody is trying to turn this country into a *Christian* nation.
They want a Christian Nationalist nation. It’s Christian in name only. Actual Christians are fighting against them, but they are a voice in the background. As for Atheists, your children will be forced to recite Christian dogma in public schools and they might be all turned into Christian schools. The USA will cease being a secular nation. This is all part of [project 2025](https://project2925.org)
Other Christians will be the next to be oppressed and forced into their version.
I think the Muslims will be after they round us up as well as the 11 million illegal immigrants, that Trump keeps going on about.
They are going to put the homeless in rehabilitation camps to "get them sober and back on their feet." Liberals won't complain too much because it'll be good for property values and improve daily life in the cities. The government contracted rehab farms will have them doing manual labor for way less than minimum wage. It's not going to work out and people will start dying en masse in the camps.
Yeah, almost like all those "undesirables" have been..."concetrated" 👀👀👀
And by then the county sheriff will be the highest authority in the land, and he’ll be making so much in kickbacks from the sex trafficking rings operating in those camps that he won’t lift a finger when complaints come in.
Almost like the Victorian England work houses
They cast a golden statue of Trump and prayed over it .
So gillead?! All image over substance.
Those people are not going to be the ones in power. They have no value to the ones in charge other than making them suckers for campaign donations and votes. By the time they come to see it, it will be too late.
Ironic considering the orange felon is the most immoral man to ever occupy the White House, and it's not even close.
1. Irony is lost on them 2. It’s never been about morals, only power 3. The joke’s on them, because these fascist regimes always end in tears.
Problem is, it does for everyone. If not lucky even for foreign countries who originaly had nothing to do with it.
Of course that’s true. But the fascists are always surprised when they can’t control the hate, and it blows up in their faces.
Because he’s nothing more than a means to an end for them. In fact, he’s the ideal candidate for this purpose: he has no scruples, and no agenda beyond his own personal aggrandizement. As long as he gets to be the guy in the big chair, and the guy holding up the signed bill from behind the Resolute desk, he’ll put pen to whatever paper people put in front of him.
Traditionally "western values" means secularism, democracy, enlightenment philosophy, science, rule of law, etc. You know, things that people like trump perfectly embody.
They are destroying "western civilization," then projecting and accusing their enemies of doing it. Unless "western values" is just a code word for white people, then everything they say makes perfect sense.
They believe in the "Western Civilization" of the middle ages, when everyone was forced to go to the same church and do what they were told, when the large majority of people were trained to be obedient peasants, and thinking for yourself was absolutely forbidden. That's what they want. I wish I was kidding. I'm not even exaggerating.
Even back then there were peasant revolts and heretic sects that gained some influence. These people just want a complete fascist dictatorship.
Those revolting peasants and heretics were almost always simply killed off, men, women and children. The Middle Ages were pretty gruesome, to say the least. They knew how to deal with dissenters.
These people are evil.
Despicably so.
man in the high castle
Meets Gilead
This was planned in the 1990s the Focus on the family groups spread out to cover the country. This is a religious hijacking of the country.
They are not 'new conservatives'...they are white nationalists....pretending to believe in the bible. Instead...they are insecure themselves and are not being responsible for their own happiness...they must in turn try to rule with hate and division. I am not religious...but I am sure fear, hate and division are not what most pastors teach.
>but I am sure fear, hate and division are not what most pastors teach. No that's pretty much what they teach. It's more of "only we are good and everyone else is a demon" sort of thing. But it achieves the same end.
You'd be surprised.
If the hood fits...
Fear and division is in every single message I’ve ever heard at church.
The article describes one of these dudes who moved his family to Idaho. He’s so insecure in his masculinity that his wife makes sure to give him the less “feminine” looking tea cup. They’ve got 8 kids and I bet most will end up rejecting their parents faith.
Handmaids Tale is coming from the Christian Taliban. Joe sucked at the debate, but his politics are still better than project 2025 Trump. The presidents job is to put the best qualified people in top positions in government and foreign policy. The right wing thinks they want christo-fascism, but very, very, very few of them will benefit. Vote for grandpa potato and not grandpa cheetolini the child rapist.
We need to FIGHT these inbreds, they’re not going to stop until they are defeated.
Defeating them has got to be a priority. They'll be back again and again if we don't. Kinda like Hamas.
And Nazis. And Russian mercenaries. And the Taliban. And so on.
I read that as Conservative Brain Rot initially and thought, yeah, that sounds right
Close enough. It's pretty much still happening
I'm a lurker here, but thought I'd share what I wrote to a friend. I think humans naturally have a tendency toward mysticism and also tribalism. If you cross the two of them you get roughly this. It's something that can be exploited because it combines two aspects of human nature that are resistant to breaking through to the rational.
Am i the only one who notices the venn diagram of "protect western civilization" crowd and "abandon nato" crowd are unironically a circle.
It's because they're using the same strategy putin used to strangle russia, he also uses propaganda that says 'to preserve Russian culture' and variations like that.
And that dream is non existent… global warming is changing our world and will continue to. They want a mirage that never was and never will be. And I refuse to be ruled by delusional cultists! Vote blue!
It's gotten marginally worse and they've gotten louder, but this has gone on for almost 50 years. These are the flowers of the Reagan revolution. I've fought with people who argued that there were "reasonable conservatives" for decades. This has always been their endgame.
Conservatives have brains? Source?
Underestimate them at your peril. They are pretty much in charge now aren't they?
Okay I am not being hyperbolic at all but if they are seriously talking about art, they are full blown Nazis. Literally.
With a better PR team.
That’s debatable. Goebbels was pretty good at what he did.
Now imagine Goebbels with social media platforms.
Goebbels was better because he had vastly more effective outcomes without modern PR tools like social media platforms. He convinced the vast, vast majority of Germans to support war, Ghetto prisons, mass murders, etc. Nazi PR/propaganda was among the best in history. There really is no modern equivalent because of the Internet. Only countries that cut off their Internet from the outside world can even come close. Also, Trump's PR is only convincing idiots and people who were already fascists to begin with. It isn't really a hard sell. They're not effectively convincing anyone with much of anything to lose or with little to gain. Goebbels and the Nazis absolutely did.
Vote blue to stop the Christian Taliban!
They’re in for a rude surprise and they’ve way overplayed their hand.
We've been more than patient with them.
Have they, though? I don't see the public taking to the streets and demanding the politicians pushing the policies that support this agenda be removed from office. Voter apathy has been carefully cultivated for decades.
The situation is bad. Foreign adversaries are manipulating social media to brainwash all segments of the population for nefarious purposes. To cause chaos in our societies and to further their goals. Something needs to be done. Social media is poisoned and the masses are drinking continuously from the well. This is our parents, our children, and our future that is impacted by this. I don’t know what can be done.
If only these social media companies could be held accountable for the way their programs are built to both be addictive (Gimme Dat quick dopamine fix bruddah) and disseminate misinformation. They have too much money to really be bothered though. Looks like the root of all evil strikes again.
I feel that the only real problem is that they create loud echo chambers, which is a little bit tied to the dopamine rush. If the social media didn't created this effect, it wouldn't create this huge problem, but allas, you can't keep users if you don't show them what they want.
If we get out of this, putin and the Russian government need to be forcibly removed from power. Not for Russia, but for the sake of the rest of the world.
They're using fearful religion - not their logical brains. There are far better ways to address our problems, and fear-based religion is not a good one. These are not stupid people at all, but they're being governed by their own fear, and ultimately their narrowminded selfishness.
They don’t know how to govern. This movement is going to eat itself. ESP with millions of people being thorns in the side of their ‘vision’
They want to fire 50,000+ federal workers and place MAGA Trump supporters in their place if they don’t completely close the agency like the EPA, Dept of education etc.
Yeah I’ve read that. Here’s to hoping there’s a massive blue wave to AT LEAST get the White House back and slowly chip away at all of the other bullshit. Step at a time I suppose.
They worked for 40 years to get to this point, time to start laying out the work for a better future. It starts with fighting back.
I agree. It seems they are craving violence and goading is into throwing the first stone. Stay vigilant. I am a non violent person day to day…but… things cans change quickly.
All the right does is Preach Hate. Started with the radio shows way back. Thanks Russ!!!! Have a friend who's on the right. He won't listen to logic at all. Talking to a brick wall........
Have you ever heard of “The Brainwashing of my dad” ? It’s a documentary from 2015. Does a good job of showing what listening to those hate preachers does to a person. The guy there ends up coming back to the realm of the living eventually, but not after wasting a ton of his life on that shit. The way people just let themselves believe just about anything trips me out. Interestingly enough, that documentary mirrors the podcast “into the rabbit hole” where they break down a guys YouTube radicalization. If you haven’t seen or heard these two I would recommend checking them out for some insight into their propaganda machine.
THANKS!!!! :)
You have it all wrong. The people in charge of the movement aren't religious. I wouldn't be surprised if they were atheist. They just know how to use religion.
Just like the Iranian regime.
'classical architecture and a revived conservative art movement' lol MAGA likes strip malls and Kid Rock
Ha! Phenomenal point!
They are Nazis. It’s OK to call them Nazis.
These people do not belong to a brain trust because even if they are intelligent and well educated they do not think deeply enough.
Young voters: not a year to sit on your hands. Get registered!
Vote blue this November.
Of course, these Christian values will be limited only to the things that are costly to individual freedom and freedom of expression. None of Christ's teachings about remembering the poor or building a just society will apply. Also, slavery will be back because it's Old Testament approved.
I haven't read about slavery yet, but they definitely want to bring conscription back and make pornography illegal. And revive the spoils system so all political *appointments* go to cronies. We should all start reading the project. It's available online and also saved on Wayback. There is enough in there that is scary that we don't need to resort to hyperbole. Edits in *
they also want to make gender discrimination legal. magats are all for it. maga women dont realize that includes discrimination against cis women, and will thus impact them too. or they dont believe that will happen to them. edit: clarification
Oh they do realize that it included women. They also ban any data collection of race, gender and ethnicity, private or public. To ensure data will no longer exist to support any claims. White men will control the job market.
>Christian values. Wants to elect a felon who cheats on his wives with porn stars and molests children. >Larger families. Hates and tries to outlaw IVF. >Fewer immigrants. Wants to elect a man who imported his wife here. >Men wearing traditional suits. Most of them (including their choice of President) can’t fit in to traditional suits and look terrible in them.
I worry about a possible Inquisition where the country has tribunals and witch trials for non-believers and heretics. As a Buddhist I feel very threatened by Christian Dogma. Buddhism is not a belief system at its core. Sure there are some Buddhist sects who fall into that category. Most of us are non-religious. In any case, I don't want those people up in my business.
These fuckers would crucify the Lord Jesus Christ if he returned because he preached the exact opposite of what they preach. Evangelicals are under the spell of the antichrist. To make it even more biblical, you can't mix God and Mammon (money). And that's what these terrorists want to do. This evangelical Christian nationalist movement must be put down, at the ballot boxes and with force, if necessary. It is every bit as insidious as Islamic fundamentalism.
These idiots all think they’re going to be in charge of stuff. They’re going to be real surprised at which end of the whip they find themselves at. Working 14 hour days for nothing, getting killed by their jobs because there isn’t any safety, pollution everywhere, never owning homes, prey to landlords and banks, no healthcare. Their kids will be illiterate. Sons slaving in factories and fields, dying in wars. Daughters will be working in the factories and fields with the men except the ones the bosses pick to be their maids and whores. 95% of society will be less than trash. Boeing is killing people and these idiots want to deregulate everything. They’ll get the hell they deserve if they get their goals. Sadly, we’ll be in it with them.
Its already happening in red states. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death#:~:text=States%20including%20Arkansas%20and%20Iowa,and%2017%2Dyear%2Dolds.
What they don't get is they are basically like Hilter's Brown shirts. Once their usefulness is done with them they'll be screwed over like the rest of us. There must be some sort of Authoritarian playbook they all follow.
Fuck religion. I won't put up with it. Zero tolerance.
"Brain trust" is a pretty generous term for these chucklefucks.
I will not have these fuckheads telling me what to do, say, believe, or wear. If you’re not armed, it’s time to be.
We atheists control Silicon valley industry academia and we let the subhuman deplorables rule over us?
If Project 2025 is implemented women’s rights won’t exist anymore. The FDA will rescind its approval of all birth control. Ultimately abortion will cease to exist. The all powerful male establishment is unable to distinguish between miscarriages or partial miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and many other complications and abortion. To them it’s all the same. This puts any woman of child bearing age in potential danger. Even if you don’t believe in abortion. If ever you have a complication with your pregnancy, you will become a believer. We cannot allow this conservative monstrosity to destroy our democracy.
I’d also put some blame on the conservative women who want this too despite understanding the differences you cited.
True. They won’t realize the damage they have done until it affects them or someone in their life.
More like a brain "suck" instead of a "trust"
Brain rust?
Our nations’s destiny will not be determined by treasonous, right wing, Russian cuck Trumplephucks out of Sisterlicker, Ky.
And they’re trying to force these ideas on the rest of us. Yet they get all pissy when we call them fascists.
If they wanted to live like that and everyone is consenting… but of course they want to impose it on everyone. It’s never about freedom for them
The groups wearing the MAGA hats are gonna be in for a rude surprise when the true commanders stick them in the factories while taking their land and jacked up pickups for god.
I hate these people.
LOL at people thinking trump will return America to Christian values what a bunch of gullibles. Also what does making America great AGAIN mean for black people and gay people, because technically the further you go back the worse it gets for them!
The racist, fake christian, radical fascist, republican terrorist can not be allowed to take over our country. Vote Blue, and then let’s fix Blue so we don’t have a repeat of the republican takeover.
The thing is literally NO ONE is stopping them from doing this now or ever! There are ZERO LGBTQ+ politicians working to pass laws to stop them from having large families, attending church, not getting or allowing abortions within their families, etc. They have simply convinced themselves that they are victims of a made up social and political construct that does not exist.
Western values? Christian values? Family values? Less immigrants? And they think trump is their man? Did trump ever go to church before being president? Has he read even a little of the bible? When asked for his favourite story didn’t he answer something like they are all good? A classic “haven’t read the book” answer a child would give in school. How many wives has he had? How many of those wives has he cheated on? Isn’t his current wife an immigrant? It just boggles my mind that people seem to act like trump is the embodiment of Christian values Unless I am mistaken Biden attends church often and doesn’t turn it into a publicity stunt. How many wives has Biden had? Two? And no divorce as his first wife died. Has he cheated on his wife? Just seems out of these two options biden upholds Christian and even conservative family values much better than trump
Voting wont matter if after we vote the democrats do nothing After we vote blue, we need to make the effort to demand some things 1) the arrest of MAGA leadership in connection with a conspiracy to commit treason 2) the labeling of MAGA not as a hate group but as a terrorist organization 3) a new amendment to set term limits on supreme court justices. 4) The removal of MAGA leadership, from local to federal leadership. From school boards all the way up to the senate. 5) The disolution of the Heritage foundation and the arrest of its leadership on charges of conspiracy to commit Sedition and Treason If we dont demand this? Nothing will change...we will just buy 4 more years of democracy and then have to do it again every single election...until they win once...and then its over for the country.
Germany eventually got fed up with the AfD and was moving some plans into place to get them designated as terrorists after their last electoral defeat. Similar concept.
This is such a democratic move. Banning your rival party. Fascists surely would never do something like that
Well those suits are going to be huge, given that the average American male is 50-150 pounds overweight. And dresses to match? Bring down the household curtains.
Oh I would love to see all these assholes try to live next to each other.
I believe they wouldn't fight. They'd trading daughters and bloodlines for status, in religion and life. Would suck up to each other and together show superiors how good they are to het more favor.
I love asking them which of the teachings of Christ this falls under. Never gotten a straight answer yet.
They plan on degrading environmental protections AND to have a beautiful aesthetic environment. Good fucking luck, assholes. 👍
They need to make up their minds. Cant have both
They won’t even have immigrants to blame. And with so, so many “Christian” factions, how long before the infighting really starts? How long before they eye the riches of the Mormon church and decide that they are in fact heretics. The Scientologists that have worked hand in hand with this religious revolution, will they sneakily come out on top, so you think? Or will their compatriots eat them alive? When power is controlled by the in-group, it is in every group member’s interest to shrink the group, hoping to be the last left.
I love how they think they’re gonna remove the immigrants. Like have you driven across the country and seen all these fucking farms we have here in America? I would love to see a bunch of white people out there picking the fields. Because that’s what they think is gonna happen. What a laugh riot.
The American Taliban. Get your burkas ready ladies!
Y’all Quada
Conservative “brain trust” is an oxymoron. They collectively don’t have a brain and there’s nothing to trust.
New conservative brain trust suffers from a mental illness.
Yes! By all means, resettle the new America! Over there. Waaaay over there. Little further...
Oh shit they're in the ocean. I guess that's far enough. Build your own island & stay there.
it’s not conservatism, it’s regressivism
It's still so fucking weird that people can try to claim being Christian and throw their support behind Trump. That is some seriously clouded vision.
I’d like to hope that Canada won’t succumb to this lunacy, but I have my doubts
You really think Canada won't end up a willing importer of American christofascism? You've witnessed that conservatives do not play by the rules and will bend and manipulate the system to favor them even if they are in the minority. Ultimately, once they control the judiciary, they can get their way no matter how few people are voting for them. Don't rest on your laurels.
In the end, they always eat their own.
So, in other words, attempting to revive feudalism.
Vote 💙
I have been saying for at least 6 years that liberals need to move to the rural county’s of the low population states. It’s the only way to change things. I guess the conservatives listened to me…
They are voting to make major companies bigger and stronger than the government. They don’t care how much is ruined until it affects their town. Except now they have worked to strip away any power the federal government has to help them. These voters think they are going to be able to protect their own town like a bunch of Jack Reachers in real life. In real life Jack Reacher is federal regulators showing up with environmental protections or OSHA statutes to make everyone safer.
if you look at the way religion is being imposed on society and religious beliefs influence government policies, the US is a far better place than the UK.The UK and Europe has seen it's fair share of religious blood letting and torture, so the secular democracy without religious influence is jealously guarded. The laws and regulations and public policies are based on the good of all the people in society regardless of religious beliefs..... The US makes decisions on abortion based on the bible, the forced introduction of the bible in schools ( with no regreds for the atheist or Muslims or Jews) posting the 10 commandments in school and teaching bible classes is a dream come true for these kinds of groups..... Christian republic of America
> Fed up by what they see as an increasingly hostile and disordered secular culture Imagine being hostile towards anyone and everyone different from you then complaining the world is "too hostile".
I didn’t know they legit want a war against immigrants as if diversity is weakness not strength…. Misguided fools wish for monoculture.
A conservative think tank is starting an initiative to discuss conservative ideas with those freely interested to learn. This think tank will very quickly tear down Hollywood, American Universities, Main Stream Press, Social Media, AI tools, the entire democrat party, libertarians and our public schools. There will be nothing to stop it, unless they get hungry and take a lunch break. But right after lunch, watch out!
Brainless trust is closer to the truth.
Why are they so afraid of people having ideas that differ from their own? I weep for their children who I’m sure they control at every turn.
“I personally would happily pay high H.O.A. fees to be in a neighborhood where I have to drive by an architecturally significant church every day, and I can hear church bells,” he said. “The Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationally, was a watershed moment for Mr. Abbotoy and other conservatives’ understanding of how quickly the ground could shift under their feet. It is a decision that signaled to them the onset of an era that the conservative Christian writer Aaron Renn — who has spoken at the fraternal society’s events — calls “negative world,” an influential concept that describes a culture in which “being known as a Christian is a social negative, particularly in the elite domains of society.” I mean, this guy was weird af before he converted to anything. Now he’s an entitled-acting baby-man complaining that he suffers for being a Christian, and that we’re the reason why his life is so hard. We all know these people. They’re insufferable, but we manage to suffer through them without taking away their rights or body autonomy. They ain’t planning to return the goodwill.
I read the article. Let me summarize it: White supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and Christian Nationalists are leaving blue states and moving to red states like Idaho to centralize their power and create a new, separatist, Aryan Nation based on values from Hitler and other fascists. Saved you a click.
Weaken the federal government by giving it a king. Brilliant
People unable to adapt to a changing world equals destined for extinction.
Gilead 2025. Life will be hard for non white non hetero non Christian.
Brain trust is a stretch, no?
It’s bad!
I've voted blue for 40 years.
Sorry but they will not be able to force their "Christian" values on anybody. They will meet massive civil resistance and disobedience.
I seriously doubt they’re gonna be going out into society and forcing their conservative rules on the way people dress or how people act. They’ll just continue to make as many in the policy restrictions as possible, while building up the police to be an insane Nazi Gestapo unit so that all the wrong people are always in jail or being harassed.
American Taliban
That reminds me I’ve been meaning to replay Bioshock Infinite
I think these people will ultimately fail at what they’re trying because as a group they are stupid , greedy and incompetent . They will never be able to enforce the garbage they are proposing besides nobody really wants it in the first place.
It would really help if there was a mass movement of getting people off social media. Give people a few months to recalibrate. People are addicted to attention, fed constant streams of bullshit, and stuck in echo chambers.
Civil War II anyone?
Conservative art is American Gothic.
Why are we using the word conservative with these groups and the current GOP? They are not conservative.
Plus they glorify traditional stay at home wives.
We have to vote but I think it’s too late. The right has woken up and realized that they don’t need to manipulate to seize power. They can just seize it by relying upon the inertia of the middle and the left. They can literally just take it because they think we won’t stop them. They’re probably right.
I don’t mind us wearing suits more often. But we could live without the rest of that crap
Western Values: Whatever Viktor Orban says they are.
Christianity is trash.
Some time ago I've heard my own mother say something about how she doesn't like hearing people speak spanish in workplace environments. I understand from personal experience having complaints about working in an environment where coworkers only speak spanish and can't communicate with us, but that's not her problem. She doesn't like it because "in america we speak english!" It doesn't matter if they can speak english when they have to. People with this ideology just won't tolerate other languages in official settings, acting like people speaking their native languages to each other on US soil is some cultural takeover.
I wonder if she gets that pissed about people who are deaf and sign. 🤔
I get where you're coming from with that, but that would actually be a disability that people can't help. Make it a foreign cultural thing though and it'd be on the table to oppress.
I understand that, I'm just saying if she gets pissed about people not speaking English because she can't understand them, I was simply wondering if she gets pissed about that because they're communicating in a language she likely doesn't know. Despite it being English.
Oh, it's more than just not being able to understand it. It's about some conservative ideal of wanting to have tight control over the cultural identity of an entire nation. They want everyone to present themselves as culturally "american" while keeping their original culture behind closed doors.
You know what. Let's just let them have some of the southern states and their own country. They can pay to relocate all of the liberals to sane states, and they can have their theocratic dystopia. When they run out of money because they're no longer getting federal funds and they refuse to tax their citizens, we can point and laugh.
I brought this up, and someone I was speaking with made a good point. They won't do that, and they will do everything to let us leave because they have to "win." They want dominance. They want to destroy us and build an endless supply of slaves. That's why they criminalized homelessness. Personally, I would rather they all move to an island and live there in the bed they made. Or better yet, put us all on an island, and people would be happier overall, mostly cause we won't have those people to deal with and people are happy they can be actually free to be & love without repercussions.
The Chevron ruling is devastating.
The Left has been so busy fighting amongst itself at the margins and fringes that they've failed to see the tidal wave.
A whole wanting to have your cake and eat it too party
What bullshit is this? “Christian values?” Lol they don’t even know what values are. And they don’t want a withered national administrative state, they want to bend the knee to their king Trump. Don’t believe the bullshit they spew. None of what was said here was true. They want to destroy this country and make Trump a king. That is it.
You are aware not all conservatives are religious, correct?
Gilead. Project 2025. Christo-fascism. * They stand against everything that America stands for. That's why they're ok with turning this country fascist. They're an existential threat to freedom, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. * For everything you believe in, and for everyone you love, get out and vote. And then vote in your congressional elections too. * All is not lost, but we're very close to it. Get these people out of public offices. There's a lot of work to do, including removing Alito and Clarence Thomas from the supreme court. None of that can be accomplished, without voting for Biden to ensure he wins this election.
All of those things are lies. Look at Florida: they aren't getting "stronger local controls"; the state regularly overrides local decisions when locals are "wrong" (read: not authoritarian.) They don't want a single Christian value - not help for the poor, not treating refugees with kindness, not loving thy neighbor; none of that. The diametric opposite. They certainly aren't trying to put money in architecture (that's "the arts" and again look at Florida who just got rid of all state level art support), or even infrastructure - except where that's a code word for kickbacks for conservative donating construction companies. Which, if you look at recent politics in the villages in Florida, gives those companies carte blanche to override those "strong local controls" too. It's just a molecule-thin veneer over attacks on worker rights and anyone currently in the out group. And make no mistake, that *will* be everyone if they consolidate enough power.