Looking back at this blog after being away for so long I find it amazing that much of what I have talked about is becoming super exposed and evident. In the first year of Obama’s presidency I said that the next time the Republicans gain control they will run us all into the ground. Trump anyone? They went full bore just like I said.
Although it’s nice to have been prescient it pains me to think that this right-wing disease of intolerance, destruction and all-around chaos seems to have its own internal engine. I once asked Ted Rall, at a talk, when will the right wing finally wake up? He said there would need to be a “sea-change.” I take that to mean that everybody will have to wake up, perhaps all at once. A country is like a ship turning slow. I hope that this can happen. I mean, honestly, the right-wing people who are screaming for populist measures would get all of their prayers answered through the embrace of a socially aware style of Democratic party.
There, of course, is more going on here, namely; Christianity that is not Christianity but only an outline of Christianity, the important details filled in by the corporate purchases of Men of God, men like Robertson, Dobson and Huckabee. Who knew you could bank off of religion. Cheesus.
I grew up watching Robertson on the 700 Club. I always respected him. As a kid he always seemed really Christian. I grew up with vivacious Christianity. Watching someone fall over in healing wasn’t anything strange to me. Everybody spoke in tongues and seemed to really be talking to God. Hey, that’s Christianity, I thought. Couple that with love and more love and more love after that and you have a winning combination. You can feel great and profess greatness to everybody else because who could go against love!
But suddenly, and alas, Robertson ran for President. Dobson grew his political activist group, the Family Research Council. Reed wore his youth and college education like a suit of armor. Gov candidates and biz started creeping closer to relidge and the next thing you know there was suddenly put forth a seat at the table for the Christian race.
No more treating us bad anymore you meany, meany heretics (hell-goers all. No, really…)
Next thing you know all the preachers got their people screaming for the godly party against the babymurder party while all the Richie Riches are laughing and so against abortion and yes and yes and yes and yes and yes and you can have that too praise jesus and yes and that too and that too and yes until, finally, all the phished Christians in the land stand up together and vote for…Donald Trump.
Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out, a K street coup, bee-otch.
No more health care, yay, no more consumer financial protection, yay, the re-pollution of the United States, yay, no peacemaking anymore, yay, daily threat of nuclear war, yay, all money to the one percent…now!, yay, racism for all, yay, hangman judges, yay, a co-president of Russian citizenship, yay, a…
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