Big plans
Mkay this is scary. Everything is scary these days. This is very scary.
As former Republican senator Rick Santorum addressed Republican lawmakers gathered in San Diego at the American Legislative Exchange Council policy summit, he detailed a plan to fundamentally remake the United States.
By making a new constitution! A new far-right constitution! Oh boy, kids, won’t that be fun?!
The December 2021 ALEC meeting represents a flashpoint in a movement spearheaded by powerful conservative interests, some of whom are tied to Trumpworld and share many of Trump’s goals, to alter the nation’s bedrock legal text since 1788. It’s an effort that has largely taken place out of public view.
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During an extraordinary few weeks in June, the Supreme Court’s three new Trump appointees powered the reversal of Roe v. Wade. They fortified gun rights and bolstered religious freedoms. Future presidents now have less power to confront the climate crisis. Each win is the product of a steady, and in some cases, decades-long quest by conservatives to bend the arc of history rightward.
Well I guess we can take comfort from the climate change part. Soon we’ll all just be dead or struggling to stay alive and no one will give a rat’s ass about any constitution.
We’ve needed a new convention for ages, but the structural problems weren’t really a problem until the last few decades. You want the balkanization to start? It starts with the proverbial two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
I guess Santorum really whipped that crowd into a frothy mix.
They didn’t actually bolster religious freedoms. They shredded religious freedom for anyone that isn’t the dominant religion. They gave the country to the religious, but we all know that means Christian…the right sort of Christian. The idea that religious freedom is “bolstered” by allowing some people to foist their religious beliefs on others, to the detriment of the freedom of others, is not bolstering religious freedom. It is the exact opposite; it is the seeds of theocracy.
A few years ago, I attended an Oxford round table on religion. It was…scary. There were two of us there that were not religious; I met him (the other heathen) at an Oxford round table on evolution a few years before. The rest were minsters, priests, rabbis, and imams. They were all agreed on one thing: the religious needed to rule. The scariest thing is that some of them were meeting each other for the first time and were making plans to get together to increase their power.
One speaker, the first of the week, was being…well, disingenuous, for lack of a better word. He simpered about the non-religious. “Well, I don’t really know what we would do about the non-believers”, he says. I was at that time reading a book about the Spanish Inquisition. I felt like waving it in the air, and saying, I know what you will do. It’s all right here!
Theocrats gonna crat.
I may just be in a pessimistic frame of mind now, but I think this is definitely going to be the case. I’ve lost any hope for humans to reverse the coming changes, and I really do believe that it’s going to be the end of us all.
If anything civilization disintegrating is good for religious authoritarianism… That’s where it thrives….
The good news is that the way things are going, humanity won’t be worth saving anyway. I do feel bad for all those other species doomed to go down with us though. I always thought the armadillos showed a lot of promise…