Dear Mr. Goldberg,
I have been reading your book, Liberal Fascism, and I find myself with some puzzling questions. Like, if Democrats are liberal fascists, how would you describe these people?
Are they theofascists?
The Wedge Strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the Wedge Document, which describes a broad social, political, and academic agenda whose ultimate goal is to "defeat [scientific] materialism" represented by evolution, "reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions" and to "affirm the reality of God." Its goal is to "renew" American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian, namely evangelical Protestant, values.
The wedge metaphor, attributed to Phillip E. Johnson, is that of a metal wedge splitting a log and represents using an aggressive public relations programme to create an opening for the supernatural in the public’s understanding of science.
Intelligent design is the belief that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a naturalistic process such as natural selection. Implicit in the intelligent design doctrine is a redefining of science and how it is conducted. Wedge strategy proponents are dogmatically opposed to materialism, naturalism, and evolution, and have made the removal of each from how science is conducted and taught an explicit goal.
The strategy was originally brought to the public's attention when the Wedge Document was leaked on the Web. The Wedge strategy forms the governing basis of a wide range of Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns.
Gee Mr. Goldberg, isn't that pretty radical social engineering?
I mean, certainly the theofascists are only against OTHER religions, but they are sincerely invested in Wedge Strategy tactics.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a creationist propaganda docu-drama starring Ben Stein as a "rebel" out to stick it to "big science" for its repression and suppression of poor little intelligent design. In it, Ben Stein pretends to interview various avid public supporters of evolution and intelligent design.
The movie has been severely criticized for conducting the interviews of the people who represent the scientific consensus on evolution in the movie under deceptive circumstances. The scientists, who included noted blogger P. Z. Myers, Richard Dawkins, and Eugenie Scott, were told they were being interviewed for a movie called Crossroads on the Intersection of Science and Religion. In fact, they were being interviewed for creationist propaganda. Intrepid internet researchers have uncovered[5] that the domain name ExpelledtheMovie.com (as well as .net, .org, .info .biz & .us) was already registered as of March 2007. Though Crossroads may have been the working title, but no comparable domain name was registered. Myers was contacted in April 2007, after the title Expelled had apparently been chosen.
The producers have also been accused of bribing schools into forcing kids to see the movie.
Here is my one-to-one correspondance for theofascist attributes mapping onto your talking points as I understand them.
1. An aversion to free speech.
The theofascists want the Vchip and restriction of media sex and violence. Also internet police.
2. An aversion and extreme hatred of religion.
Theofascists have extreme hatred and aversion for EVERY religion except their own. Well...except for the Jews. Pastor Hagee wants to intern the Jews in Israel as a staked goat to bring on teh Rapture, and the Mormons want to baptize their dead into the Mormon Church.
3. Gun control, and lots of it.
The theofascists are all for controlling guns....for everyone but themselves.
4. Big government, and I mean BIG. Like, the government being involved in every aspect of our lives.
The theofascists want to tell us what to think, ie samesexmarriage and abortion rights.
Theofascists want to destroy the public school system so they can implement better thought control of their young in private schools, AND have the government fund their religious schools by paying for school vouchers. The theofascists want government to fund their religious values and force them into the lives of all citizens.
So, Mr. Goldberg, do we also have theofascists seeking to control this country?
Sincerely,
The Major