The names and religions change, but the battle is always the same.

[phantom power]

The trigger-happy conservative theocrats in America organize themselves under the banner of the Republican Party. In Afghanistan they organize themselves under the banner of the Taliban.

Today in Afghanistan women and urban voters went to the polls to tell their own violent conservative theocrats to shove it where the sun don't shine, in the nation's first peaceful democratic transition of power...

...

There is a global battle between conservative economic royalist theocrats who want to disempower governments and urban liberals to revert all control to rich local religious patriarchs, and decent people who want a brighter and fairer future for everyone.

The names and religions change, but the battle is always the same.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-battle-against-trigger-happy.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R..nt

[Laelth]

2. Interesting. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[vlakitti]

3. Patriarchy is in the DNA of all the Abrahamic religions

and given an opening they'll always revert to it.

A fine column by Mr. Atkins.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. informed views

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. If only all Americans could see the light and understand that, as Atkins says:

And just like everywhere else in the world, life improves when conservative, misogynistic theocratic violence fetishists are routed out of power.

What a great country we could be.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. Great post, thanks nt