Where is our God? At least the Right wing has One they can use to manipulate their useful idiots into supporting the agenda of the super-rich. And their task is easy. All they have to do is to conflate the backward puritanical legacy (of which a huge amount of American suffer from), with the core "values" of the exploitative super-rich, and voilà, you've got yourself an army of useful idiots you can manipulate at will.
It goes like this: Hard work and piety bring about blessings, happiness, and richness. Sin and laziness bring about poverty, disease, and misery. The rich are blessed, thus they must have done something right. Therefore, I want to be like the rich. Therefore, I will protect the rich, because one day I will be one.
Jesus Christ, how easy is that! It's brilliant, and it works every single time (in all historical eras).
Sometimes I feel like trying to address these topics with a super-intelligent establishment liberal is like trying to get the attention of some of the cats that sometimes wander into my back yard... Here kitty... His ear may bend slightly toward the sound of my voice, while he keeps walking on his merry way, without paying attention.
When you are engaged in an existential battle with a powerful enemy, the first order of business is to do whatever you need to do to win that battle. Remember it's an existential battle, so the stakes are high.
In all of recorded history, a tiny wealthy elite will always, always, for ever and ever, try to manipulate the populace so they can be exploited and enslaved. That will never change.
There will always be huge amounts of Orc-like ready armies of useful idiots at the disposal of aforementioned ruling elites. And the recipe for the recruiting of the useful idiot army enlistees is fairly easy also: Validate their superstitious believes; Appeal to their base instincts (extreme nationalism, racism, ethnocentrism, ignorance, fear). Again, very easy stuff to do.
But the key difference on the Right is that, except from the ruling elites, who act with a very straightforward and calculative approach inspired by extreme greed and lust for power, the rest of the Right wing acts out of cult-like conviction and righteousness.
And so they feel they have a higher calling (from God). Their battles are (in their minds) between good and evil. So when they act, they act with boldness, with a cult-like conviction.
Those are precisely the things sorely missing on the Left: cult-like conviction, higher calling, and boldness.
And the sad thing is that this scenario turns everything on its head. It should be us who should be imbue with a sense of cult-like conviction. It should be us who should act as if we had a higher calling. It should be us who should be bold, and brash, and in-your-face, and unapologetic.
Say, what? Do you want to teach creationism in public school? You want to take away hard-won workers's and women's rights? Do you want to blur the lines of separation between Church and State? Ha ha ha ha ha... Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit, and get out of my face and go back to the cave you came out of.
Here's the way it's going to be...
And then you go about protecting and implementing a progressive agenda, knowing that when you say "Progressive Agenda" is not as if there is any other agenda in a civilized society. The Progressive Agenda is the only agenda, period.
Because it means you live in a modern, balanced, and civilized society. The choices are clear. You either live in a secular, modern society, under the rule of law (and the constitution), or you move towards a feudal-like backwards society, dominated by a handful of sociopaths in the form of a plutocratic ruling elite.
Finally, politeness, and reason analysis, en empirical evidence, and justice, and that sort of thing applies once you have the conditions in place for a civilized society.
What the Progressive movement in the U.S. (and much of Europe) fails to understand is that the power play necessary to set those conditions in place can't be pretty, and nice, and polite, and reasoned.
This international cabal of criminals are focused on fucking you over, big time. They want to brutally destroy any semblance of a strong middle class. They want to confuse you, manipulate you, exploit you, and enslave you.
And they are succeeding every day, and it's happening at a faster and faster pace.
The Left needs to engage in this battle. Think ruthlessness, Machiavellian power plays, brashness, boldness, conviction, in-your-face confrontational, unity, believe, higher calling.
I wish to see the day of the rise of a militant (non-violent, lawful, within the constrains of the Constitution) Left. Of a very disciplined, organized, and extremely focused, and united progressive movement. How I wish that!
And the thing is that it should not be this hard... Especially when the tiny neo-fascist ruling elite that has taken over the country by being able to motivate their army of useful idiots with complete unadulterated bullshit.
Especially when you (the progressives) have the truth on your side.
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