Toxic Theocracy

Over the globe, we are seeing the rise of religious extremists worming their way into seats of power. In the US, we have seen this rise dramatically since the election of George Bush Jr, during the terms of Obama, and as a core force to get Donald Trump, one of the least qualified persons to ever sit in the President’s chair, elected.

The problem is that theocrats- in whatever religion- MUST keep trying to force their will onto free people- they hate freedom- especially for women- more than almost anything else. And in the US GOP and the Trump travesty, they have found their path to power.

Over the past two years, we have seen the SCOTUS being turned into a rubber stamp for conservative extremism, have seen the civil and human rights for PoC, LGBTQIA people and women attacked on both the state and federal level, have watched as environmental protections were stripped, as species protections gutted, and watched the rise of anti-science and anti-intellectualism. This has not only been tolerated by the Trump administration, but encouraged, aided and abetted by it. One can only assume that either the man is truly one of the most ignorant men to sit in the WH, a puppet of more cunning men with private agendas, or is colluding in an intentional tearing apart of the US from the inside out, and the end of its secular Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Indeed, we are watching as state by state, religious extremists are imposing an insidious, treacherous ideology of theocracy on the US and its people and it laws. We are watching as the Trump administration, in giving high seats of power to these religious extremists, is selling out our birth right as a freethinking nation of independent people to theocrats and dominionists who would impose Biblical law through the high courts of the land and through public policy dominated by false prophets who use their fake religion as a hammer against those who refuse to kneel to their perfidious ideology.

While the religious extremists have been trying to win influence in modern government since the 1950s, the GOP sealed its deal with these fanatics back in 1979 when Reagan cosied up to them for votes- JUST as Trump did and is doing now. But the religious fanatics had a long-term plan, and they kept moving more and more and more of their people into local, county, state and federal positions through organized voting- school boards, city council, commissioner positions, state offices, and so on- they “trickled up” into power.

The liberals, progressives, Dems and others have been so busy NOT forming a cohesive plan, NOT voting en bloc, NOT voting strategically, that it will take a miracle to make things turn around- and I don’t see too many miracles happening in politics.

In terms of politics, the strength of religious fanatics and of conservatives is that they will sacrifice their individuality to win a long term game; the weakness of a free people- the truly spiritual people, the liberals, the progressives, etc- is that they will NOT.

The evil of the GOP is that it is willingly colluding with ignorant, despicable, spiteful fanatics using their twisted interpretation of a bible, in the tearing down of the wall of separation and the Establishment clause, willing to destroy the human and civil rights of girls and women, and eager to destroy the equal rights of LGBTQIA citizens in order to get a solid vote from a contemptible, deplorable group of fanatics.

And the pitiable Dems play catch up on issues they don’t know how to address because they think people cannot or will not be able to handle the truth of these issues (such as global warming, the rise of theocrats, the issues surrounding global economics and finances, the truth about what the extremist right is doing, etc), they have failed to form a rational plan for the future they can present to voters to rally them, and they can’t pull moderate voters together

It could be said liberals and progressives are their own worst enemy, like trying to herd cats, but the Dems need to stop trying to herd them and instead, call them in with a solid plan for the future: cats will come when called if the person calling is trusted and worth coming in for…the Dems have yet to bring that person forward this time around.

And the far left needs to stop having fantasies about socialism and face the truth: if they do not all get behind a rational, intelligent freethinking candidate, we will see another 4 years of this extremist right GOP, and that will, for all practical purposes, destroy what is left of the US as secular, free nation of proud people: it will be turned into a wasteland of desolation, a future of desperate people bent under the yoke of the wealthy few and crawling on their knees to their  theocratic tyrants.

2019