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"If Reagan is Not Risen ... then our preaching is in vain."
...no tactical analysis of Conservatism will ever be be sufficient, and no strategy to dismantle its electoral and media machinery will ever work, until we all get it through our heads that Conservatism is not merely reactionary, but a full blown religious cult.
A cult with with a totalizing vision of reality that rejects science, causality, history, Christianity and democracy in favor of the pronouncements of its Leadership Caste.
A cult which believes with raging, messianic fervor that since all of America's problems were caused by the Original Sin of Big Gummint, the only way to restore their White Christian Nation to it's Righteous and pre-Fallen state (which they have only glimpsed every now and then in certain John Wayne movies) is to destroy the federal government and drive all of Jesusland's scheming, God-hating Liberals and parasitic minorities into the sea.
A cult of giddy fascism....wrapped in the American flag, carrying the bible, with a Toby Keith soundtrack.
...
And like any other cult in which the members have gone all-in and done horrendous, unforgivable things in the name of the True Faith, it has become impossible for Conservatism to save itself, because like any successful cult, it has given its adherents no way out. It is, by now, almost literally unthinkable for a Conservative to acknowledge any error other than being insufficiently pure in their raging Conservatism. And to admit that, just maybe, the Dirty Hippies (were right) would be...catastrophic. Identity-annihilating.
There is no greater sin against Saint Reagan in the hierarchy of Conservatives heresies than to entertain the concept -- even as a theoretically -- that Conservatism itself is the problem. Doubters are instantly cast out as squishy RINOS, and reformed are declared abominations and cast out.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/01/if-reagan-is-not-risen.html
A cult with with a totalizing vision of reality that rejects science, causality, history, Christianity and democracy in favor of the pronouncements of its Leadership Caste.
A cult which believes with raging, messianic fervor that since all of America's problems were caused by the Original Sin of Big Gummint, the only way to restore their White Christian Nation to it's Righteous and pre-Fallen state (which they have only glimpsed every now and then in certain John Wayne movies) is to destroy the federal government and drive all of Jesusland's scheming, God-hating Liberals and parasitic minorities into the sea.
A cult of giddy fascism....wrapped in the American flag, carrying the bible, with a Toby Keith soundtrack.
...
And like any other cult in which the members have gone all-in and done horrendous, unforgivable things in the name of the True Faith, it has become impossible for Conservatism to save itself, because like any successful cult, it has given its adherents no way out. It is, by now, almost literally unthinkable for a Conservative to acknowledge any error other than being insufficiently pure in their raging Conservatism. And to admit that, just maybe, the Dirty Hippies (were right) would be...catastrophic. Identity-annihilating.
There is no greater sin against Saint Reagan in the hierarchy of Conservatives heresies than to entertain the concept -- even as a theoretically -- that Conservatism itself is the problem. Doubters are instantly cast out as squishy RINOS, and reformed are declared abominations and cast out.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/01/if-reagan-is-not-risen.html
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