It is now long past time to cast off highfalutin’ Latinisms and simply call the Republicans and their religious and secular conservative allies what they are, and in unadorned English: a death cult. As the country reels from the coronavirus pandemic, our national government might just as well be run by the infamous People’s Temple of Jonestown.
By now we are benumbed by the all-pervasive arguments over relaxing workplace shutdowns and stay-at-home orders due to coronavirus. In any sane society, the issue would be how to institute the most efficient measures to defeat the pandemic in the shortest time and with the lowest loss of life. Instead, Trump and his merry band of lunatics have hijacked the national debate into a faux-serious discussion of when, oh, please, how soon, can we “reopen the economy?” Naturally, the media gamely continue to play along with this calculated bit of dezinformatsiya…
There is no longer the slightest doubt in any sane person’s mind that not only are the GOP’s fundamentalist-extremist religious allies a death cult disguised as 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable organizations. The whole extremely well-funded edifice of “economic conservatism” is equally a death cult, worshiping Mammon so fervently that it is eager to make human sacrifice upon its altar, just like the Mayans and Carthaginians.
Let those of us who do not accept the joining of Mammon and phony bishops like Trump, sit back and watch this medieval beast devour itself, starting from the tail, again and again.
What ‘American Horror Story: Cult’ Got Right — and Very Wrong — About the Trump Era https://www.vulture.com/article/american-horror-story-cult-post-trump-presidency.html
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s space laser and the age-old problem of blaming the Jews : Why conspiracy theorists always end up pointing the finger at Jews — and why that’s a problem for the GOP. https://www.vox.com/22256258/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-laser-anti-semitism-conspiracy-theories
8AM MST, tomorrow morning, 3rd
“How shocking that the GOP now has a QAnon problem in its ranks” (Baltimore Sun 2/2/21) https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-jensen-0203-marjorie-taylor-greene-20210202-tkedxtuiz5di7beldlg3esyyhi-story.html
The extreme right are a bunch of arseholes who are proud of being arseholes and are fighting for the right to be arseholes.
The extreme left are a bunch of arseholes who are in denial about being arseholes and are fighting to make being an arsehole illegal.
Yet both of these groups get all the press and control the bi-polar mainstream discourse because its SELLS.
“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader (1999)