In a party of ignoble buffoonery, a party where loud/mmoral men are applauded in the light of the day for waving the flags of nationalism — but, in the early, rayless, hours of the night commit treason!
In THIS party of WEAK-and-WOBBLY -CHESTLESS- men —- we have an outlier.
Evil needs friends to go forward; evil isn’t always so “balanced “ or calm! One of the most shameful aspects of some so-called “moderate” Republicanism: It’s ability to soothe independent fears.
It has always been a lifesaver to #WhiteNationalism.
The long history of “The Lily White movement” in both the conservative movement and in the Republican Party is a testament to how moderate Republicans empowwed White Nationalism.
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an…
And then it later waged war on moderate Republicanism! It used moderation to DESTROY moderation ....
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
How democracy produced a monster
Hitler came to power in a democracy with a highly liberal constitution, and in part by using democratic freedoms to undermine and then destroy democracy itself.
nytimes.com/2008/02/03/opi…
.... using democratic freedoms to undermine and then destroy democracy itself.
..... They will use diversity to DESTROY diversity.
You have these so-called moderates who are incapable of seeing how a person can literally have the law on their side! But, because of their “character” .... they can later use law to set fire 🔥 to law —- and then even push/approve laws that’ll kill/set fire to them!
Why is this all happening? Is It because Lily-White evangelicals want a colorblind judge who’ll overthrow Roe vs Wade?
I don’t believe so ...
I think it’s actually about race & culture, but you’d have to know the history to grasp what I’m saying: forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
“Southern churches, warped by generations of theological evolution necessary to accommodate slavery and segregation, were all too willing to offer their political assistance to a white nationalist program.”
Southern religious institutions would lead a wave of political activism that helped keep white nationalism alive inside an increasingly unfriendly national climate.
Forget about Goldwater,
Nixon or Reagan.
No one played as much of a role in turning the South red as the leaders of the Southern Baptist Church.
Defeated and demoralized, segregationists in the 1970’s faced a frustrating problem – how to rebuild a white nationalist political program without using the discredited rhetoric of race. Religion would provide them their answer.
Armed with the superficially race-neutral rhetorical formula Criswell had described, prominent Baptist ministers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would emerge to take up the fight.
The rise of the religious right is usually credited to abortion activism, but few evangelicals cared about the subject in the 70’s. The Southern Baptist Convention expressed support for laws liberalizing abortion access in 1971.
Criswell himself expressed support for the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe, taking the traditional theological position that life began at birth, not conception.
The denomination DID NOT adopt a firm pro-life stance until 1980.
In 1967, Mississippi began offering tuition grants to white students allowing them to attend private segregated schools. A federal court struck down the move, but the tax-exempt status of these private, segregated schools remained a matter of contention for many years.
Under that rubric, evangelical churches across the South led an explosion of new private schools, many of them explicitly segregated. Battles over the status of these institutions reached a climax when the Carter Administration in 1978 signaled its intention to press ...
... for their desegregation.
It was the STATUS of these schools, [NOT ABORTION or moral issues] a growing source of church recruitment and revenue, that finally stirred the grassroots to action.
Televangelist Jerry Falwell would unite with a broader group of politically connected conservatives to form the Moral Majority in 1979.
“The Black Church” and authentic Black conservatives have observed Lily-White Evangelism for over a century ....
WE HAVE WATCHED FROM THE MOUNTAINS, WE HAVE WATCHED THEM IN DISGUST and We Will NOT Have It O!
I'd like to preface this all with the fact that when I speak of “lily-white” conservatism, or “lily-white” evangelism — I’m not talking about everyone who’s a white evangelical or who is white and conservative!
I’m specifically talking about a powerful and particular strain within both mainstream conservatism and in Christianity who are seeking to advance a culture that advances the narrative of white-nationalism — even if it’s unbeknownst to them.
Even more so!
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