Christian Nationalism

Don’t Be Fooled

America is not the America that most of us have been accustomed to.  Christian Nationalism and Fascist ideas and propaganda are on the rise.  Change rarely comes rapidly; it comes gradually.  Don’t be a frog-in-the-frying-pan.  Rely on reason and not propaganda, fear, and ignorance.  Inform yourself against Project 2025 and Trump Republican legislations.    Here are some ideas.

  1.  Don’t rely on wishful thinking.  The world is the way the world is; accept it as it is, not as you would want it to be.  Don’t lie to yourself or others.
  2. Don’t fall for misinformation regardless of what ‘side’ you find it on.
  3. Make a decision to leave or stay.  Leaving has its own costs and benefits, but staying does as well.  Be responsible for what you decide. 
  4. If you stay, join groups such as the ACLU, or other groups that are fighting for fair and charitable legislation and action.  Joining a group strengthens the group and yourself.
  5. Personal decisions make a difference.  Do not support the billionaires that support Republican policies such as they are.  Cancel Amazon, decide to use X and Facebook to disseminate true information, or simply quit using the services.  Support small businesses, grow your own food.
  6. Confront obvious lies and misinformation when you see it or hear it.  Don’t let it slide.  Be courteous but firm.
  7. Help people that are under attack.
  8. Have two exit plans: one long term and one short term.
  9. Use time and energy to be as happy as you can be.  This is important.
  10. Don’t forget: you are not alone.

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: The Pathetic and Proudly Stupid

Americans come from a long line of fearful, foreboding theocrats that probably make up a majority of the population.  And that is a problem. they demand that everyone bow down to their particular form of idiotic beliefs and that more so, these beliefs become the law of the land.  Trump and the Republican party have worked hard to make sure their wishes come true, and have had only one thing to say: yes.

The probability that Trump himself is even remotely religious is small and if he is, he is at best the cafeteria-style believer if he thinks of it at all.  It would seem that Trump and his followers would have to face the actual truth of the matter at some point, but Trump and his cohorts don’t worry about that because they can simply create “alternative-facts” and sell them with a little Jesus juice on the side. 

This is all to say that the Republican-Christian-nationalistic machine is in full force.  It eats the gullible and pisses out rightwing fanatics with a love of guns, god and greed. 

There’s a rumbling in the background and if we put down our phones we can almost hear the chanting. 

“Give up critical thinking for Christ!” is the mantra that they yell and that din that is getting louder and louder them on their way to the Whitehouse.

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: The Destruction of Oversight

So what is the goal of the Republican party, coupled with corporations and religion?  Plain and simply put: the destruction of any and all oversight and the implementation of a plutocratic government, with autocratic tendencies.  In essence, the destruction of the American federal government.[i]

The volatile mixture of planned and orchestrated confusion, religious belief and the traditional viewpoint of American individuality amounts to a hatred of any oversight by any government.  This, in essence, is the argument made by corporations. 

With legal loopholes that allowed unregulated lobbying and Citizens United which allowed unlimited monies to buy governmental policies corporations no longer must adhere to the law.  Having the same rights as individuals corporations can, in essence “run for office” and they have as Donald Trump.  Now instead of having to adhere to law, the have the power to make law.  It is this power that destroys the government.

Donald Trump and the Republican movement are almost literally greed incarnate.  While it is not clear why the leader of a union would stand and support the Republican movement, it is clear what the end-goal of Donald Trump and the Republicans who support him is: the annihilation of the American Federal Government.

[i] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/this-is-how-the-republican-party-plans-to-destroy-the-federal-government/

Excerpts from The Trump Diaries: The New Republic of America

Political terminology regarding American political parties has changed over time, but the basic premises of the two remaining party’s arguments never has.  “Democrats” have represented a working federal government while the Republicans have had as their goal, the abolishment of a federal government.  As Grover Norquist so eloquently put it: “to reduce [the government] to the size where [they] can drag it into the bathroom and drown it…”[i]

The Republican ideology does, in fact, support a free market capitalist society, but only for the bottom ninety-five[ii] percentile of the American public.  The top 1% of the country lives by an entirely different set of rules, expecting to be bailed out (by the American public) for being “too big to fail”, enjoying legal tax loopholes that allow for the richest individuals in the United States to pay little and in some cases, no taxes.

In essence, what the Republican’s wet-dream amounts to is shareholder capitalism.  Shareholder capitalism maximizes profits for investors rather than stakeholders.  It does nothing for society, produces no goods and does not add to the community in any way.  Shareholder capitalism is bad for everyone except those investors that have access to the hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of dollars it takes to play the shareholder game.[iii] 

Shareholder capitalism will be the ruination of the United States, of a civilization and all the while the new republicans led by Trump and bolstered by Christian nationalism eggs on the end of the world for nothing more than profit.

[i] https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

[ii] More or less.  The number is probably larger given that the top .01% of this country owns all of the large, international corporations.

[iii] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2020/01/05/why-stakeholder-capitalism-will-fail/?sh=4006f19c785a

In September 1970 Milton Friedman published an article in The New York Times Magazine, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.”

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0212/027.html?sh=4a381a9d6541

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