The christofascists, like the GOP before them, have really honed their craft on “When did you stop beating your wife?” setups to silence discussion. Add in projection and a Democratic party that stands for nothing of use to voters, and it’s an impossible position, especially given what media ownership looks like now and shit-stirrers champing at the bit to attack anyone who speaks ill of a bigot.
Both parties are dead. The GOP went Nazi cult of personality that allows no diversity of ideas, and the Dems rushed to fill the conservative void. Biden had some amazing successes with the BIL and IRA (both of which benefited rural areas more than cities), but he’s remembered for a single awful debate performance.
We need something – anything – to the left of Thatcher, and the moneyed class simply won’t let that happen. So long as the Nazis can play the “moral high ground” card effectively to enough people by completely perverting the teaching of Jesus as “Christian,” I don’t know what can be done.
“Hate thy neighbour” is now Gospel, straight from Trump’s mouth. And they’ve brainwashed people into thinking the main point of the New Testament is retribution. If we get out of this hole by some miracle, it’s going to take a couple of generations to get back to reasonable discourse with the backdrop of a world increasingly becoming unlivable.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Democrats maintained a wary silence on Monday as Donald Trump’s Republican party appeared galvanised by a memorial service for the late rightwing activist Charlie Kirk that was part religious revival, part political rally.
Nearly 100,000 people filled an American football stadium and overflow arena in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday to pay tribute to Kirk, according to his his organisation Turning Point USA. The 31-year-old staunch Trump ally was shot dead on 10 September.
The service was a show of force that blended politics with relihad gion, putting Christian nationalism at the heart of Trump’s “Make America great again” (Maga) movement. It also cast Kirk as a martyr who could be a rallying point in future elections. “Today is the day democrats lost 2028,” posted Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican senator John McCain.
Kirk’s widow, Erika, earned widespread praise for a tearful address in which she said she forgives the man charged with her husband’s killing. She told the crowd: “My husband, Charlie, he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life. I forgive him.”
Providing just enough veneer from a single speaker to pretend this event had anything approaching conservative values.