I have been struggling for years with figuring out just how deep the political beliefs run with the right wing. Their ability to ignorantly refuse to understand or accept truth and facts has been confusing. I’ve tried to figure out do they really know deep down they are being spoon fed bullshit, how deep does their ignorance and stupidity go. There is no arguing against someone’s religious beliefs, we all know this to be fact. And political rhetorical beliefs are the same exact thing, it has taken awhile to figure this out and understand the ramifications of this. We have watched a GOP that has no boundaries on making up new rules and trashing long held standards of democratic decency, respect, and procedural doctrines. Those who are subject to buying into rhetorical and quite frankly ridiculous false premises do not care how anything is justified, it really doesn’t matter.
It’s out, it’s official and openly acknowledged, they don’t care. Their political beliefs are so deeply embedded with ridiculous fake christian values that it is one and the same with their religious beliefs. Those religious beliefs that the hard right has embraced are no different than the religious beliefs that supposedly Muslim terrorists embrace to get their way. I know it’s a small fraction of the hard right, but with their beliefs they are willing to support terrorizing abortion clinics, Mosques, and all things that represent their hated religious and ethnic foes, at it’s core are underlying religious beliefs. Most disturbing is the fact that true christian beliefs don’t matter a bit to those using the name of god and religion to unite ignorant people. Much of their rhetorical beliefs fly directly what is is to be or have christian values. If you look at how right wing christian and family values are defined by them these are families no christian would ever want to be associated with. The true christians I know would consider this kind of alternative christian to be despicable human beings that have no resemblance to anything christian.
This alt christian political rhetorical beliefs based party came about with people who have in their makeup the ability to believe. People who group together around beliefs are what the right is made up of. They exclude and reject those who do not share their beliefs, if you don’t believe that just think about the divide being created between those devout Trump supporters and everyone else. This is a group that worships rhetorical bullshit so ridiculous that conversations cannot take place about virtually any topic. A muslim would have an easier time converting a christian to their religion than we have getting through to these politically driven idiots that have already made up their minds about who and what they support, and then anything they do can and will be supported, lack of logic and reason doesn’t matter.
When the Alabama governor came out and openly admitted that she has a problem with a pedophile being their state’s senator, but then said it wasn’t enough to shift her vote to the side of morality, they needed that seat and vote no matter what the guy is or does. The GOP has made the unthinkable clear, that they will vote their party line on any form of destructive and self serving, or worst and least qualified government heads as long as they are guaranteed to fulfill the hard right conservative agenda,
So this declaration that anything goes is a game changer, that they are willing to support the most despicable politicians, that any degree of lying, cheating, violating the constitution to alter votes, gerrymandering, packing courts with unqualified judges, jamming religiously inspired beliefs down people’s throats that do not share these religious beliefs, this straight up means that democrats and the left better wake up and completely change it up. When dealing with people that have no honor or respect for laws and rules those who put too much value on them will more than likely be the losers. These are people who will and do cheer right wing leaning judges who ignore the constitution and rule against it when supporting religious or ideological and partisan views.
Moderate America including moderate republicans are on the side that rejects the idea of bringing religious views into politics. We need to stand against a dangerously growing segment of the country that embraces dangerous religiously inspired beliefs that have created an anything goes cult that is about taking America back and winning at any cost. These have been proved to be truly despicable people, and despicable people are capable of things that people with honor and integrity have a difficult time matching or standing up against. We lean on laws and laws are crumbling before our eyes. All three branches of government are failing to reign in the branches that are openly in violation of laws.
The change that has to take place has to do with the left realizing what this is, and realizing that this is not the time for bickering about the details. This is about posing a united enough front to decisively take control of both the senate and house. And I mean majorities big enough that Democrats can put rules in place that are hard enough to survive the kind of assault democracy is currently under. Democrats need to play hardball, forget the rules of decency and tradition that they have quite frankly hamstrung themselves with. It is time to fight dirty and win, and when majorities are won play dirty with changing laws and strengthening those that are currently being trampled. Laws need to be put in effect that clarify that to refuse to do the job politicians are elected to do with protecting the constitution, they will be removed from office. Violating the constitution by refusing to uphold it should be cause for immediate expulsion.
Here I will add an example of how the left will lose with the current mindset. Franken makes the case. Here we have a serial child molester president, his civilian partner in crime was convicted of the same exact case, this is okay with the right and the GOP. They are willing to double down and put someone who should have been prosecuted decades ago for being a pedophile, and this is okay. Franken is so many multiples away from either of these creeps that the left that thinks he needs to resign needs to get a grip on reality. If we lose politicians like Franken and the right refuses to clean up their side they will win because these people will do anything. I would absolutely refuse to support Franken if he had done what Trump or Moore did, but in a dimmer light we cannot afford to lose seats when the balance is this close, and again I am not advocating allowing anything to fly the way the GOP has. Pointing out that Franken did a far lesser thing is in no way minimizing what he did, but it fires people up because that’s what they see it as.
All of the right’s hot button topics revolve around religious views except guns, and they even manage to equivocate them to the bible by somehow making it god’s right to defend one’s self or some such hogwash. The right has made a few very credible efforts at bringing the bible and religious beliefs into the constitution and our laws. They continue to violate the constitution in GOP controlled states in the name of religious views. The supreme court is biased too strongly toward these views over the constitution. Courts are being stacked with hard hard right unqualified young judges. Age seems to be a factor in looking to perpetuate biased courts for decades. Biased courts will change this country in a bad way for decades to come, we are deeply screwed if courts can’t be relied on for fair and biased rulings based on the law.
The left will need to focus with the same single minded concentration on making the number one priority winning elections with moderate politicians that get it, blue dog dems can go as well because they can make a difference as far as votes for the right. Democrats supporting divisive policies among democrats as a party will be the cause of religiously inspired political control to rule the day. Otherwise important issues need to take a backseat to the prioritization of a unified front that is about being against and fighting this cult inspired political party.
It is not stating things too strongly that if the GOP is allowed to continue the course they are on they will maintain gerrymandered districts, voting machines that can’t be checked that are subject to intentional miscounts, voter suppression that is already a problem, court constitutional challenges coming before packed courts will fail, the supreme court may already fail to be the check on constitutional grounds that it is supposed to be. We can expect full repeals of abortion, gay rights, religious freedoms from christian business owners practicing their beliefs, etc. We are seeing it, this is not some future unlikely thing, we are on that edge.
Take where we are at a step further, the constitutional crisis we are staring in the face. Given the GOP refusal to aggressively be the check and balance to the judiciary and executive branches, where will this leave us if Mueller divulges that impeachment is indicated if not demanded? Here we are looking at the GOP balking at anything Russia/Trump, or censoring the will of the voters on a pedophile (both Moore and Trump). So what happens if they dither around and refuse to impeach, or refuse to intervene with Trump pardons for crimes his people are in up to their necks in? Or we see the DOJ slow play demands for prosecution? The flip side is that we do see an impeachment, or the threat and reality of impeachment flips the right out and Trump refuses to comply and it does trigger a civil revolt. This is all too likely, so if Trump refuses to step down who is in charge of the military and police? I’m not so sure we can count on what we always thought was strong enough to withstand democratic tests on the democracy and strength of our laws. People with religious oriented beliefs will fight for those beliefs no matter how idiotic they are as they are in this case.
This changes things that we are seeing the GOP openly acknowledge that they are governing on their beliefs and rhetoric rather than anything that reflects the values of the people of this country. They have managed to indoctrinate ignorant people into believing and thereby not c To me there isn’t much that’s scarier than the mindless actions of ignorantly clueless people who have strong religious or political convictions. This frankly scares the crap out of me, and I see more and more people waking up to the reality that what we are dealing with is seriously dangerous.
If Trump is impeached, hang on because we are going to be dealing with butt hurt religiously oriented people that will strike out in the name of their cult leader Trump. If it’s allowed to be dragged out Trump will have some seriously fired up people, make no mistake.
This explains the GOP refusing to object to a single deplorable nomination or act as the oversight of the executive or Justice branches that they are required by the constitution to do. They are gutting democracy and the constitution at as furious a pace as possible before it’s too late to stop them.