V_Von_Doom

@valeriarichards.bsky.social

Brainstorming…& To all those I repost: Thank you.

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Apparently they are illiterate and did not check against the USA constitution, or the writing of the framers of the USA constitution. They think if they believe strong enough, that it will become real.

As a legitimate governing faction, the GOP is dismissible as unserious. As threats to the basic premises of American identity, they should be taken very seriously.

The worst thing about caring about liberty is having to look at all these big trojan horse groups misrepresent authoritarian ideals as liberty and patriotism

"Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not." James Madison